This will be a roundup of all the best games for Windows. All of the games are free to download, and released under an open source license.
| First-Person Shooters - video game genre centered around gun and other weapon-based combat in a first-person perspective. |
| Platform Games - video game genre and subgenre of action game. |
| Sports Games - video game genre that simulates the practice of sports. |
| Racing Games - take part in a racing competition with any type of land, water, air or space vehicles. |
| Simulation Games - describes a wide-ranging super-category of video games, generally designed to closely simulate real world activities. |
| Board Games - source of social interaction, as they challenge the mind and, most importantly, they are great fun to play |
| Educational Games - designed to teach people, typically children, about a certain subject or help them learn a skill as they play. |
| Chess Games - a wide range of chess-playing software for Windows, which can defeat most master players under tournament conditions. Play against a computer engine or online with fellow humans! |
| Roguelike Games - Roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing games. It literally means “a game like Rogue”. Rogue is a dungeon crawling video game, first released in 1980. |
| ASCII Games - extremely basic graphics, but with many redeeming qualities beyond evoking fond memories of the early days of computer gaming. |
| Card Games - plethora of card games available, with families of related games. |
| Music Games - video game where the gameplay is meaningfully and often almost entirely oriented around the player’s interactions with a musical score or individual songs. |
| Game Engines - software development environments designed for people to build video games. |