Free Sports-themed Games

Freely available games with a sports theme


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Freely available sports-themed games, listed alphabetically (click on the game's entry for more info)

[0-9]

  • [2006 World Series for Sports Illustrated Baseball] - If you know how baseball works, you already know most of the rules to Sports Illustrated Baseball! This 'expansion' lets you play out the 2006 World Series -- you don't need Sports Illustrated Baseball to play since everything you need is included in the downloadable file, expect for the dice.

[B]

  • [Baseball (piecepack)] - A a loose simulation of baseball for two players, played with a piecepack set. There’s plenty of luck involved, but some of the choices managers face in real life are represented here.
  • [Biathlon] - Competitors from the US, France, Russia, Canada, and Italy seek to ski through the course with the fastest time while shooting accurately at three groups of targets.
  • [Big Brutal Basketball] - A free card game about a basketball match between 2+ players.
  • [Brain Baseball] - The Zombie card game you can play with a standard deck! Originally released in August 1998 as a limited-edition game, made with leftover bid cards from a poorly sorted print run of Give Me The Brain.

[C]

  • [Ceiling Fan Baseball] - The sport you can play with your Ceiling Fan! Basically, this is a game of baseball played with a wad of paper and a ceiling fan. Dumb, but fun!
  • [Chaos Cruisers] - In the midst of all the chaos of this futuristic race, one wily cruiser will prove to be the fastest, most agile, and most crafty of them all. Who will earn the Chaos Cup?
  • [Chariots] - A 'history repeats itself' game of racing chariots like in the Circus Maximus in ancient Rome, for the piecepack.

[E]

  • [ElfBall] - A fantasy miniatures sports simulation that is rich in tactical stimulation, but streamlined in play. It's the kind of game for those nights when you'd like to play something, but don't want to commit to a traditional fantasy sports simulation.

[F]

  • [First and Ten] - Detailed simulation of American football. Real-life teams are rated based on statistics. Player(s) choose offensive (and defensive) plays, then results are determined through dice and chart lookups.
  • [FreeStyle] - FreeStyle is a game of competition in a swimming pool for 2 to 8 players.

[G]

[H]

[I]

[J]

  • [Joust] - Joust is a very brief two player game themed around jousting, inspired by En Garde and Pico.

[L]

  • [A Lamb Between Two Lions] - A board game for 2-6 players that attempts to represent some of the action of Buzkashi games held at festivals in northern Afghanistan.

[M]

  • [Micrun] - A simple set of rules to play races with models of cars, trucks, race cars... you got the idea.
  • [Minizoomerz] - The minizoomerzTM board game puts you in control of your own minizoomerzTM racer. Competing for fame and glory over countless minizoomerz tracks and circuits across the globe.
  • [Mundialito (Gold Cup)] - Move your pieces, push and jump over your opponents pieces until you score a goal in this Icehouse game.

[N]

  • [Ninja Golf: 18 Holes of Death!] - You're a ninja at the 'Jade Tee' golf championships. The winner of this tournament will bring great honor to his or her house (and get some super-sweet merchandizing deals to boot!). Do you have what it takes to win in the cutthroat world of Ninja Golf?
  • [Nitro] - A free card game about FORMULA 1 (F1) racing for 2+ players. The more the players, the more exciting the play will be.

[P]

  • [Punch!] - Will you land your carefully planned punches on target? Will you be able to block your opponent's punches? Will you be able to outbluff your rival? Can you knock him or her out before the end of the match?

[R]

  • [Reiner Knizia's Decathlon] - Ten games in one! Reiner's ultimate game of armchair athletics, from the 100 Metres to Pole-Vault.
  • [Road Cycling Tour] - A road cycling simulation intended to be flexible enough to simulate any multi-stage road cycling event.
  • [Rocketball] - A no-hands, no-feet, no-touching game of soccer for two players and a screaming-hot ball.

[S]

[T]

  • [Tortellini Football] - A game of American football, using a piece of tortellini pasta as the ball. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.

[W]

  • [Winter Pause] - Winter has arrived. The soccer fields are ruined, either muddy from rain, slippery from snow or frozen hard as a rock. Not the best of times for a good game of soccer. But the real freak will not be stopped by such trivialities. He will find himself a fine warm gymnasium and play there.

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