Free Gaming & eSports Software
GDevelop
GDevelop is a 2D cross-platform, free and open-source game engine that takes visual programming to the next level. GDevelop allows you to take read-made behaviours and add them to your game objects or create new once with intuitive and east to use events. With GDevelop, it is easy to make games for PC and Mobile, as well as launch HTML5 games playable right in your web browser.
Opera GX
Opera GX is a free gaming-centric web browser developed by Opera Software AS. The browser provides native integration to Discord and other chat applications and day and night mode built right into the browser itself. Opera GX was first announced at E3 2019 and is still in early access.
GameRanger
GameRanger is an internet-based gaming service and game utility software that allows users to create and join multiplayer games for hundreds of different video games. With GameRanger you can setup multiplayer game lobbies with your friends and play over 700 games and demos online with people worldwide.
Discord
A VoIP application and platform designed for creating communities and connecting gamers, and people rallying around specific causes. The Discord client is a free to use and can handle text, image, video and audio communication between users in a chat channel. Currently over 250 million users use the software to connect with others across the globe.
PlayKey
PlayKey is a decentralized cloud gaming platform. PlayKey is the first of is kind, and makes decentralized cloud gaming profitable for everyone.
Phaser
Phaser is a fast, free, and fun open source HTML5 game development framework. It uses a custom build of Pixi.js for WebGL and Canvas rendering, and supports desktop and mobile web browsers. Games developed with Phaser can be compiled to iOS, Android and native desktop apps via third party tools. With Phaser you can developed games written in JavaScript or TypeScript.
Parallels Desktop
With Parallels Desktop you can run several other operating systems on your PC simultaneously. The software provides hardware virtualization for Macintosh computers with Intel processors. With ongoing support for DirectX and OpenGL, many popular games and game engines are supported within Parallels Desktop allowing people using make to make use of Microsoft Windows related products.
Torque 3D
Torque 3D is a premier open-source game engine. Torque 3D includes both a high-performance forward-rendering basic lighting engine, and a deferred-rendering advanced lighting mode. A plugin system for physics, and networking capabilities with a server authoritative networking model, used for multiplayer games. The game engine has been used to create everything from driving simulators to MMOs to first-person shooters.
itch.io
An open indie game marketplace that makes it simple to find, download and distribute indie games online. With itch.io, gamers can choose from over 100,000 titles uploaded by indie developers from all across the globe. As a developer you can use itch.io to create a page for your game, where you can distribute your game and provide gamers with the latest news and media surrounding the game an its releases.
GameHub
GameHub is a games library manager that allows you to view, download, install, run and uninstall games from Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, Humble Trove and more. It supports non-native games and native Linux games alike. GameHub also supports multiple compatibility layers for non-native games including Wine / Proton, DOSBox, RetroArch, ScummVM. While at the same time allowing you to add custom emulators.