FREE Portable Games Category

Minetest is a Free Portable Minecraft like Game created in 2010 by Perttu Ahola; also known as celeron55. This portable game is powered by the open source voxel gaming engine. It can be played not only on Windows, but also MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, or even Android. Gameplay is similar to Minecraft’s where players explore, create or destroy blocks in a first person three dimensional world. You can easily create and explore worlds on either single or multiplayer servers. Create and host your own game or simply choose to join one that is already up and running. Several game mods and texture packs also currently exist allowing players to personalize their gaming experience even further. Moreover, this portable game can be stored and run entirely from your USB flash drive. Bring it with you; play at multiple computers; show your friends, etc.
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M-emo-ry is a Free and Portable Memory Exercise Game for kids or adults created by Michalis Nicolaides. To play, simply match the emotional icons with one another (in pairs), the goal being to match all 18 pairs.  M-emo-ry is an excellent tool to use to help keep your brain active by stimulating your memory. The only limitation is that M-emo-ry does require .NET Framework 4 be installed.

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Physion is a Free 2D Portable Physics Simulation Software created by Dimitris Xanthopoulos. This realistic Physics Simulator can be used to simulate the laws of Physics in an intuitive Game Like manner. Physion enables a user to experiment in a fun way, by creating scenarios which are put to the test on screen right before your eyes.

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Portable Sudoku Game – This particular version of Sudoku was created by Stefan Trost. It boasts the option to print a Sudoku game to play on paper or to play the game  from your computer on screen. Other game options include training, beginner, advanced, and professional games in classical or free mode.

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Armagetron is another great Free TRON Game. Modeled in 3D, this TRON Clone uses an old school arcade approach to emulate the “Light Cycle” or Light Bike sequence of the movie Tron. Key Armagetron features include the ability to play multiplayer or against the computer, customizable arena, AI Bots, and a heads up display (HUD).

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Urban Terror is a free multiplayer first person shooter developed by FrozenSand, originally modified for the quake III platform, that utilizes ioquake3-code. The developers Motto for Urban Terror is “Where Quake meets reality”.  The game is entirely Free to download and play and is available zipped (requiring no setup installer) for Windows, Linux and Macintosh. So this First Person Shooter can be stored and run from a USB device.

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The Powder Toy Physics Simulator Game is a small and fun Game created by unaligned.org and currently offered by Geeks3D. Physics and Chemistry students might use it to learn chemistry and physics by performing experiment simulations without the risk of destroying a real lab. It has been said that once you begin to play, you can spend hours on Powder Toy.

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Piskvorky is simply a Portable Tic Tac Toe like game created by Lucersoft. Piskvorky also known as Gomoku is a two player (you against the computer) strategic game that works much like Tic Tac Toe, but with a slight twist. The player must create an uninterrupted series of five X’s or O’s in a row (lengthwise, vertical or horizontal) instead of three, making for a much tougher challenge.

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Defender Element is a Free Portable Tower Defense type Game offered by Staff 32003 Productions. A Free Strategy Game, where the goal is to reinforce the pathway to your castle in an effort to keep enemies from invading your castle.  During gameplay, symbolic reinforcements aka: knights, archers, mages, and catapults are purchased with coins to use in your defense. These reinforcements can be sold later at reduced cost and replaced with upgraded units.

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Lost Ship V4 is a Portable and Free Space Shooter Game.  Featuring an adrenaline pumping, fast paced, ship shooting game environment of pure survival. You strive to survive by defending yourself from and conquering multiple enemies. At the end of each journey path, you will find yourself up against a very powerful Boss or leader.

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TORCS is a highly Portable Free Car Racing Game also commonly referred to as “The Open Racing Car Simulator”. This car racing simulation game allows you to race against opponents simulated by the computer or to develop your own driver bot and enter the driver into competitive events. TORCS uses OpenGL for rich graphics and a real life like look and feel. This Racing Game looks and functions just about as good as most purchase only Racing Games, however it’s entirely Free.

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Glest is an entirely free real time strategy game and strategy game producing engine. Within the Glest game,  you create armies of either the Tech type (warriors and mechanical devices), or Magic type (mages and summoned creatures) and use them within the battlefield against your opponents. Glest uses OpenGL for it’s 3D effects and the Free Game is fully customizable using XML and a set of tools.

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GLtron is, as the name suggests is a Free TRON like game inspired by the movie TRON. In GLtron, the player steers a futuristic bike, called a lightcycle inside a rectangular arena. Your bike leaves a trail behind, which becomes a wall. The goal is to force the other players to drive into a wall while trying to avoid the wall yourself. The last player still riding is the winner.

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Warzone 2100 is a Free Real Time Strategy Game created by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. It is currently developed by the Warzone 2100 Project and features a portable wrapper written by portableapps.com. Warzone 2100 offers single player, campagin, and online multiplayer skirmish modes. The game works much like Command and Conquer but is entirely Open Source. Features include an extensive tech tree with over 400 different technologies and a unique unit design system.

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Subvein (Now Geneshift) is a Portable and Free Online top down Multiplayer Shooter Game. The game features multiple weapons, over 20 vehicles (in coding process), unlockable missions, skills and special abilities. Geneshift combines top down view gameplay with CounterStrike like Online action and then tops it off with strategic character building skills found in similar games like Diablo. It was the author, Ben Johnson’s attempt to provide what he considers the Ultimate Super Game.

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Atomic Tanks Portable (Atanks) is an Open Source Free Portable Game. Referred to as “a multi-platform Scorched Earth clone similar to the Worms series of games”, Atomic Tanks is a game where you get to control a powerful tank. The objective is to attempt to blow up other powerful tanks  (last tank standing is the winner). Atomic Tanks is a turn based game and players are offered an array of hefty weapons and items to use for their defense.

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AssultCube Portable is a Free Portable First Person Shooter Game.  Portable version of the popular free first person shooter game AssultCube (formerly called ActionCube) based on Cube. This action packed first person shooter game (FPS) can be played in either single player or multi player modes.  AssultCubes features very realistic graphics and superb game playing functionality. Moreover, networking code is super efficient making even playing multiplayer on a slow 56k connection possible.

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Mega Mario is a Free Portable Super Mario like game. Upon review, Mega Mario looks and functions much like the old school Super Mario Brothers by Nintendo. However it utilizes more levels, better graphics and can be played smoothly at a much higher resolution than the original game. Mega Mario worked well when launched and played directly from a portable USB Flash Drive.

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Secret Maryo Chronicles is a Free Portable Side Scroller Game. It works functions much like Super Mario Bros with power up boxes, ability to pounce enemies etc and could be considered a Super Mario Clone. In addition to simply playing the game, Secret Maryo ships with an in game editor (activated via f8). The editor enables you to insert your own background image, insert enemies, insert power up boxes, change player start position and more. Secret Maryo Chronicles was developed in C++ and is offered under GNU GPL V3.

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Savage Full Enhancement is a multiplayer online real time strategy game. Based on Savage, the game is played online with other human players. The game consists of two or more teams and each team has one commander. The first player who selects the command button has the opportunity to be the teams commander. The commander designates weapons, places buildings to be built, and commands the entire team. The team can vote to eject the current commander and can vote in a new commander if they choose. The rest of the players play the game like a first or third person shooter, they can also help build buildings and gather resources.

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Frets on Fire is a fun portable game that can be used to test your musical skills and fast finger playing agility. The focus of the game is to a play guitar with your keyboard as accurately as you can. It works on the same basis as guitar hero, but ironically, you use your keyboard as your instrument. I highly recommend using the tutorial to get started. Remember it’s all in good humor. This game can be run directly from a portable device and requires 52.1MB of free disk space.

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Deluxe PacMan is a FREE portable PacMan arcade game that was created by Neil Roy. Game play and functionality is based on the all time arcade favorite PacMan. Deluxe PacMan features a unique look and feel that totally differentiates it from the original game. Although it is currently not available as a portable game, we are going to show you how to make it portable.

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Bricks 2000 is a popular Tetris like game that can run from a portable device. I personally find the Bricks 2000 puzzle game it almost as much fun to play as Tetris was way back in the day. Gamers who earn honorary high scores are able to set their own specific comments which are available in the Bricks 2000 Hall Of Fame. This portable game requires 620KB of disk space.

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Alien Arena is a Free online FPS first person shooter game that can be run from a portable USB device. takes a few of the best aspects featured in such popular games as Quake III and Unreal Tournament and then further combines them with unique and original ideas. Based on a retro style Alien theme, Alien Arena is not only fun to play, it also contains that old school element that you just don’t find in most modern Deathmatch style games.

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Sudoku Portable is a popular, addictive and entertaining portable number puzzle game. It is based on Sudoku which was created in France over 100 years ago. The game features four difficulty levels (easy, medium, hard and impossible), resizability, check game or solve game options and automatic saving of your game upon exit. After extraction, the complete installation is only 444KB making it a great game to add to anyones portable collection.

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