Fangame

Video game concept

Created based on some third-party material by its fans rather than a company that licensed it.

216
games
28
platforms
Commonly free due to legal reasons, though the developers may acquire license to commercially release their game.

These are also uniformly non-canonical unless they retell the events already found in some other canon material. Though there is possibility that the game's events are incorporated into canon, too.

If these are actually sold without license, then these are unlicensed games rather than fangames.

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Parent group

Hobbyist game

Games by year

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The first Fangame video game was released in 1978.

NEUC, Daniele Spadoni and Kalypso Media Digital published most of these games.

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Platforms

Linux 97
Windows 32
Apple II E 20
Mac OS Classic 13
MS-DOS 8
Pandora 5
Commodore PET 5
BSD 5
Mac OS X 4
BeOS 4
GP2X 3
NeXT 3
C64 2
Amiga 1
DEC PDP-1 1
Sharp MZ 1
Internet Only 1
TRS-80 1
Mega Drive 1
Flash 1
Win3.1 1
PSP 1
Android 1
ZX Spectrum 1
GamePark 32 1
Memotech MTX 1
HP-41C 1
Atari ST 1

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