There is nothing spooky about this month’s Portmaster roundup, just useful apps, good games, and better vibes. Check it out below.
Free/Ready to Play PortMaster Games and Apps
- Adonthell: Waste’s Edge – A free 2D role-playing game in the style of classic SNES RPGs. As a loyal servant of the elven Lady Silverhair you arrive at the remote trading post of Waste’s Edge, where a theft threatens to ruin your mistress’ reputation. Explore the Redwyne Inn, talk to its guests and uncover the truth.
- Audiofilus – A pixel-art music player that keeps playing while you game. Send it to the background and control it with hotkeys, or turn the screen off and control it from your pocket. Plays your library, internet radio, podcasts and Subsonic/Jellyfin servers.
- Balloon Challenge – Balloon Challenge is William Soleau’s 1993 DOS strategy game: launch your 25 balloons into a sky full of airplanes, dark clouds, directional clouds, hurricanes and bonus clouds, and get them higher than the computer’s.
- Berusky – A Sokoban-style logic puzzle game. Guide up to five ladybugs through about 120 levels, push boxes, blow up walls with explosives, unlock colour doors, collect five keys and reach the exit.
- BitFall – Hidden in the Tomb of the Snake, the Ring of Greed awaits its rightful owner. Will you enter the tomb and live to tell the tale?
- Choky Suppression! – Choky Suppression! is a minimalistic, fast-phased first person shooter. Infiltrate a mystery fortress with your hover tank and fight with deadly killer drones!
- Cortex Command – A 2D side-scrolling action-strategy sandbox with fully destructible, pixel-simulated terrain. Command a brain in a jar, buy and dig in your troops, drop ships full of reinforcements and fight for gold. This is the open-source Cortex Command Community Project.
- Crystal Story: Awakening – Crystal Story: Awakening is an Action-RPG that blends charming retro-style graphics with fast-paced action, heavily inspired by 16-bit classics!
- Cubes – Explore a collection of twisty puzzles in a 3D environment! Rotate, inspect, and solve different cubes, including classic 2×2 and 3×3 cubes, Mirror Cube, and other unique puzzles. Customize your view, manipulate individual faces, and challenge your spatial reasoning. A simple yet satisfying puzzle experience for cube enthusiasts!
- Dark Ember – Dark Ember is a pixel-art bonfire-defense roguelike. Pull the sword from the last bonfire, gather resources in the light, build defences, and survive endless waves of dark creatures across procedural biomes.
- Dijeweled Remastered – Dijeweled Remastered is a fan-made recreation of the Bejeweled series by LDinos. It brings back match-3 modes such as Classic, Zen, Blitz, Twist and Quests, and adds new gems, new modes and multiplayer.
- DinoLove2D – A remake of Google’s Dino game in love2d.
- DiverCity – DiverCity is an extended version of MicropolisJ, the open source Java edition of the classic city builder Micropolis. It adds traffic simulation, schools, universities with a research tree, museums, city halls, wind and solar power, big roads and train stations, and more realistic pollution spreading.
- Freaks2.x – A 3D maze and monster smashing adventure, a remake of the 90s MS-DOS game Freaks! with free rotation, depth cue lighting and storms. Heal by feeding on the corpses of the monsters you kill.
- God of Thunder – Play Thor in three episodes of top-down action and puzzles. Throw your returning hammer, collect magical items, and challenge Loki’s allies in a native source port.
- Gone Fishing – A quiet pixel-art fishing game. Row or motor across five places, from an autumn lake to the Columbia River under Mt. Hood, and cast with real physics to put your lure where the fish swim. 42 fish with their own fights, five legends, ten lures, bobbers, trolling, day and night, weather, goals, gear upgrades, three save slots, a customizable angler and a dog or cat for company.
- In Your Face City Trains – A one-button runner: get to work on time by jumping over closed trains, running through open ones and dodging birds and tunnels. Coffee from open trains gives an extra life.
- Kerners – A word puzzle game. A kerner is an L-shaped piece carrying three letters; fit them into a puzzle’s shape so every row and column spells a word.
- Kondor – QSoft’s 1999 freeware top-down tank game. Drive through twelve levels, wipe out every turret and ground vehicle, and survive jets and hawks attacking from the air.
- The Last Summer: Prologue – The first three chapters of a cozy isometric story game about a seaside hotel closed for twenty years. Free, in eight languages; the world zooms in on small handheld screens.
- LGeneral – A turn-based hex strategy game in the spirit of Panzer General. Command your forces through single scenarios or full campaigns against the AI, with entrenchment, supply, weather, surprise contacts and reinforcements shaping every battle.
- Lilt – A musical grid for small computers. Place notes on a sixteen by eight grid and let them loop, then shape the sound with echo, space, pace and wobble across nine generated voices. Simple enough for kids, strange enough for everyone else.
- Long Spear – This is a game on which you have a extendable spear that can become TOO LONG and this determines how you move through the levels. Enjoy 13 levels with puzzles, explosions and some enemies to kick.
- LTris 2 – LTris2 from LGames, a falling-block puzzle game in the style of Tetris. Survive as long as you can in Normal mode, clear a different figure each level in Figures mode, or play against one or two CPU opponents, with classic or modern rules.
- Meg and the Trapper – Meg and the Trapper is a fangame with a double tribute. First to the arcade games of the early 90’s like Tumblepop or Snow Bros. And, especially, a tribute to Dead by Daylight reimagining it as a classic arcade.
- MOMO – A small electronic creature that lives in your handheld. It notices you, reacts, chatters in a voice of its own, dozes, dreams and remembers you between visits. Every MOMO is different.
- Monochrome Worlds – Help two people, one black and one white, reach the gray spot where their separate worlds meet. Each one can move blocks from one world to the other to clear a path for their companion. A remake of Tatsuya Koyama’s Monochro Observer by Geisha Studios.
- Open Surge – Open Surge is a fun 2D retro platformer inspired by Sonic games, and a game creation system. Play as Surge the Rabbit, a hero who uses his electric powers to rescue his friends from an evil robot.
- The Secret Chronicles of Dr. M – A 2D side-scrolling platformer, forked from Secret Maryo Chronicles, with hand-drawn graphics, its own soundtrack, an overworld map and a full level editor with in-game scripting.
- Slam Soccer 2006 – Bolzplatz 2006, released in English as Slam Soccer 2006, is a funny football game in 3D comic style by Xenoage Software. Play friendly matches, a world cup or a full career with your own team, featuring wacky stadiums, weather and commentators.
- Soma Spirits – A choice-driven JRPG about two spirits, Heart and Soul, working to restore balance to the world of Soma. Rebalance is an updated edition of the original 2016 freeware release, with new modes, features, and content.
- Soma Union – Soma Union is a galaxy-spanning RPG that returns to the world of Soma! …or so it would, if your planet had not been destroyed in a great calamity. As you roam through the cosmos to find the missing fragments of your home world, you’ll meet a colorful cast of characters and make important choices that may not be as clear as they seem.
- SunDog: Frozen Legacy – SunDog: Frozen Legacy is FTL Software’s 1985 space trading and exploration game, where you take over a starship to build a colony for a religious sect while trading, fighting and running your ship’s systems in real time.
- Taisei Project – A free and open-source Touhou Project fan game. Dodge dense bullet patterns across six stages plus an extra stage, with a full story, spell practice and replays.
- Torus Trooper – Speed! More speed! Race a ship down a twisting torus, shoot through barrages of bullets and beat the clock. Destroying bosses and reaching score targets adds time; losing a ship takes it away.
- Touhou Meishuugeki – Touhou Meishuugeki ~ Cursed Sweeper and Bewildering Parallel is a Touhou Project fangame developed by Drillimation Systems in collaboration with E. Enthusiasm. The game centers on a mysterious substance created by the Gensokyo Socialite Order under the name of glohm, who plans to use it to sabotage an upcoming autumn equinox festival hosted by Queen Marisa in Kozankyo in the Federal Kingdom of Gensokyo.
- Towerjumper – A clone of the popular tower-jumping mobile game: spin the tower to guide a bouncing ball down through the gaps, avoiding the coloured danger segments. Levels are randomly generated.
- VertSky – The sky has fallen down… and it can’t get up! Blast it back into place in a roguelite vertical shmup.
- Vesaball – A Breakout/Arkanoid-style brick breaker with 50 levels, over 20 bonus power-ups like fireball, multi-ball and exploding bricks, and a built-in level editor.
- XSkat – Play Skat, the classic German three-player trick-taking card game, against computer opponents following the official Skat Order. Supports Ramsch, Bock rounds, Kontra and Re, French or German card decks, game hints and replays.
- YTC – YTC (Your Tube Client) is a native, controller-driven YouTube client built for Linux handhelds and media centers.
- ZQuest Classic – ZQuest Classic (formerly Zelda Classic) is an open source engine for top-down Zelda-style adventure games, with a library of hundreds of fan-made quests. This port includes the player plus the bundled demo quest The Deep; more quests, including the original classic quests, can be downloaded from PureZC.
Paid/Files Required PortMaster Games
- Black Souls I & II – Black Souls is a dark fairy-tale RPG Maker VX Ace game set in a twisted retelling of Alice in Wonderland.
- Cash Cow DX – Holy cow, it’s all about the moooney! Run, jump and slide in this udderly moo-velous adventure to reclaim your fortunes from those sneaky Pig Pockets. Tough as nails and no continues! Are you up for the challenge?
- ComicStriker DX – CometStriker DX is a fast-paced arcade-style shooter where you boost through danger and blast everything in your way!
- Dungeon Deck – Explore a dungeon in the form of a deck of cards! Collect rare items, build your own deck, and defeat the dungeon in this cozy card-based roguelike!
- Endacopia – Endacopia is an unusual point-and-click puzzle adventure game created by Andyland. Help a lost child named Mellow navigate a surreal, whimsical, and unsettling world filled with strange characters and mind-bending puzzles.
- Flora & Fang: Guardians of the vampire garden – Spray! Jump! Pop! Dracula’s kids must defend the family pumpkin patch from swarming insects in this cute pixel-art, single-screen, arcade platformer.
- The Fancy Pants Adventures: Classic Pack – The Fancy Pants Adventures: Classic Pack collects Brad Borne’s original Flash games, the series that set the bar for Flash platformers. Run, jump, slide and roll as the stick figure in the fancy pants through World 1, World 2 and World 3, picking your world from the hand drawn World 4 hub. Run fast, run fancy!
- Five Nights at Freddy’s Series – Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds!
- Gunslugs 1 and 2 – Run, jump and shoot through chaotic pixel-art battlefields, smash scenery and rescue characters in this action platformer by Orangepixel.
- Hostile Lands – A skill-based bullet-hell shooter with a TON of colorful characters, crunchy gunplay, and a planet that holds a grudge. Rescue your crew, reach the escape pod, and get out. The catch: every escape cranks up the Hostility toward those left behind.
- Ittle Dew – A short and sweet puzzle adventure. Ittle and her fairy fox Tippsie wash up on an island full of monsters, dungeons and treasure, and set out to find it all.
- Jetboard Joust – Fast & fluid arcade-style shooter with roguelike elements! Take flight on a lethal rocket-powered jetboard, blasting alien invaders with an explosive arsenal of ridiculous weaponry. Face off against massive, multi-stage bosses. Jetboard Joust resurrects the spirit of the arcade for the 21st century!
- Lost Flame – Lost Flame is a modern traditional roguelike with turn-based, positioning-driven melee combat. Explore a ruined kingdom, fight legendary warriors and piece together the cause of the cataclysm, with deep character building through weapons, rings, amulets and enchantments.
- Mute Crimson DX – Mute Crimson DX is an action-packed precision platformer where you guide Ninja on his quest to climb up walls, slice through bad guys and overcome great evils!
- Penumbra: Overture – Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
- Pyro Fighters – Pyro Fighters is a scrolling space shooter with platforming physics. Use your flame gun to propel yourself in the air and fight through an alien army with up to four players.
- Remnants of Naezith – With the powers granted to him by the dragon, Kayra will destroy the Remnants of Naezith, enchanted fragments of the dragon’s body, to prevent anyone from exploiting their power for evil. Rush and swing through levels to top the leaderboards in this fast-paced, grappling hook precision platformer.
- Residual – Explore alien planets, gather resources and repair your ship in a procedurally generated survival platformer.
- Retro Bowl – Retro Bowl is the perfect game for the armchair quarterback to finally prove a point. Presented in a glorious retro style, the game has simple roster management, including press duties and the handling of fragile egos, while on the field you get to call the shots. Can you pass the grade and take your team all the way to the ultimate prize? Can you win the Retro Bowl?
- Super Chicken Jumper – A spy-chicken tries to save the world from doom in this runner/shooter game that has a little bit of everything with a touch of chicken and anime girls on top. Run for your life in 6 different worlds and shoot your way through tons of enemies until you become a legend.
