45) A Tale of Two Kingdoms

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Another point-and-click adventure game made using AGS, ATOTK was released to much acclaim and puts the player immediately in mind of the old Sierra and LucasArts classics. Made by a dozen or so people, the game is better than many modern full-price adventures, and is an achingly sincere tribute to the genre.

44) And Yet It Moves

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A delightful platformer set in a paper world, And Yet It Moves lets you not only run and jump, but revolve the world itself to deal with its platforming perils. It’s a really original-looking game, too, and at the very least is one of the more innovative freeware platformers ever to be released.

43) Chaos Funk

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A neatly rendered remake of the ZX Spectrum classic Chaos, Chaos Funk pits up to eight wizards against one another on the plain of limbo (a lovely excuse to use a black screen as a background). Using randomly assigned spells (including the ability to spawn forests and monsters), players take turns to magic one another to bits. Fantastic.

42) MinishoterRS

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This looks, smells and feels like a professionally made Japanese side-scrolling shooter, despite the fact that it’s only about the size of four icons stuck together. You’ll duck, you’ll weave, you’ll shoot things, and they’ll explode. It’s easy to get the hang of and has incredible amounts of spit and polish (except for the spelling in the title).

41) Super Secret Ninja

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A gorgeous little platformer in which you use a grappling hook to swing across an 8 bit-esque Japan, building momentum to leap huge gaps while avoiding alerting the law to your presence. The game becomes fiendishly difficult, but even repeated failed attempts are enjoyable.

40) Cholo

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A remake of a game from long ago; in Cholo you are a slowly evolving AI subroutine, traversing an epic wireframe Tron-like world. You exist in the electronic brain of a robot, and through solving cryptic puzzles you can leap into the minds of other, better robots, gaining abilities as you go. At one point you’re a tank.