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Title: Free Games where You Destroy Things Cathartically?
Post by: darkflagrance on February 27, 2013, 08:43:57 pm
I'm pissed and I want to break things. Recommend me worlds that I can destroy please!!!
Title: Re: Free Games where You Destroy Things Cathartically?
Post by: freeformschooler on February 27, 2013, 08:45:18 pm
You can blow everything up in Voxelstein. (http://voxelstein3d.sourceforge.net/)
Title: Re: Free Games where You Destroy Things Cathartically?
Post by: Ozyton on February 27, 2013, 08:52:21 pm
I've never played it, but supposedly that 'new' Red Faction game (whatever it's called) has some explodey destruction stuff.
Title: Re: Free Games where You Destroy Things Cathartically?
Post by: Scelly9 on February 27, 2013, 08:59:10 pm
I've never played it, but supposedly that 'new' Red Faction game (whatever it's called) has some explodey destruction stuff.
Not free, and also a terrible game.
Title: Re: Free Games where You Destroy Things Cathartically?
Post by: Cthulhu on February 27, 2013, 09:26:45 pm
Red Faction Guerrilla is pretty cool.
Title: Re: Free Games where You Destroy Things Cathartically?
Post by: Ozyton on February 27, 2013, 09:30:50 pm
Oh, I completely ignored the 'free' part, oops
Title: Re: Free Games where You Destroy Things Cathartically?
Post by: Ricky on February 27, 2013, 09:31:29 pm
Red Faction Guerrilla is pretty cool.

Pretty much this. And anymore RFG is about 5 buck.
Title: Re: Free Games where You Destroy Things Cathartically?
Post by: Sonlirain on February 27, 2013, 10:05:38 pm
King Arthurs Gold?
It's kinda free (well it has two versions and the primitive one is free).

X-Com Apocalypse is probably abandonware by now.
It's old but there's a bit of destruction to do.
Title: Re: Free Games where You Destroy Things Cathartically?
Post by: Ozyton on February 27, 2013, 10:07:30 pm
Apocalypse is available from steam so i don't think it's considered abandonware
Title: Re: Free Games where You Destroy Things Cathartically?
Post by: varsovie on February 28, 2013, 12:34:46 am
Apocalypse is available from steam so i don't think it's considered abandonware

Well lot of games got on "abandownware" but got back on digital sales with Gog, and now Steam and ect... Two buck isn't a lot, but two bucks for a 15 year old game is still appreciable.
Title: Re: Free Games where You Destroy Things Cathartically?
Post by: Catastrophic lolcats on February 28, 2013, 12:40:06 am
Ace of Spad- oh wait ...  :(

Jokes aside there's plenty of "physic sandboxes" on the free game list (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhZ2bGNb4RZIdE5JTEs4b2xyNmllNnNRTWR1NzlCVXc&authkey=CNScwJoF&hl=en&authkey=CNScwJoF#gid=0). Most of them I find hard to really class as "games" but they can be fun to dick around with.
Title: Re: Free Games where You Destroy Things Cathartically?
Post by: Levi on February 28, 2013, 12:48:50 am
Katamari Damacy.  :)
Title: Re: Free Games where You Destroy Things Cathartically?
Post by: bucket on February 28, 2013, 01:24:07 am
Crush the Castle - The (arguably more fun) precursor to Angry Birds. Also check out the sequel.

Happy Wheels - Plenty of fun to be had with the physics. Although, usually the thing getting destroyed is your player.
Title: Re: Free Games where You Destroy Things Cathartically?
Post by: Xotes on February 28, 2013, 02:10:57 am
Minotaur China Shop is great for this. You start out trying not to wreck things, but the Minotaur can fly into a rage if he accidentally breaks too much stuff, which sets you on the path to wrecking your entire store for the insurance payouts.
Title: Re: Free Games where You Destroy Things Cathartically?
Post by: IronyOwl on February 28, 2013, 02:56:15 am
Indestrucotank (and its various sequels) is a sidescrolling flash game where you blow up planes and tanks by bouncing your indestructible tank onto them.

Burrito Bison is more or less the same, only it's an enraged bison luchador who got sucked into Candyland and forced to fight their champion, so he breaks free and starts bouncing gummies instead.

Powder Game is more of a physics simulator than a proper game, but it can be interesting to create little steel bowls or stone platforms and then scour them away with wind-driven lava or by dribbling acid onto them.

I'm sure I know more free ways to smash things than this, but none of them come to mind.
Title: Re: Free Games where You Destroy Things Cathartically?
Post by: Jopax on February 28, 2013, 03:55:13 am
There was this one game that I can't remember the name of, but you were this giant alien robot attacking a city and trying to destroy it, it was in B&W and quite fun, also free as it was some sort of uni project by some guys or something.
Title: Re: Free Games where You Destroy Things Cathartically?
Post by: Virtz on February 28, 2013, 06:12:58 am
I guess Surgeon Simulator (http://gamejam.bossastudios.com/) kinda fits.

RealMatter's tech demos (http://www.alecrivers.com/realmatter/) are kinda fun for a couple minutes.

The Operation Cleaner (https://sites.google.com/site/jannyman01/games/cleaner-2) games aren't all that care free, but you get to demolish buildings by planting charges, though the physics aren't all that visual by today's Guerrilla standards, and you have to do it avoiding damage to neighbouring buildings.

If you can muster the cash, then I'd totally go with Red Faction Guerrilla for the most mindless and visual destruction.
Title: Re: Free Games where You Destroy Things Cathartically?
Post by: Shadowlord on February 28, 2013, 07:45:54 am
Specifying 'free' really limits your choices.