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Welcome to Freeware Friday, a weekly column showcasing excellent games that you can play free of charge!

There's a wide range of fighting games, from Street Fighter to Soul Calibur. Some, like Guilty Gear, focus on learning every in and out of a character and utilizing all the strengths in a fast-paced battle of wills. Others, like Tekken, are slower and more deliberate, with countless strategies for approaching any scenario. None of them, however, let the player truly decide the moves. They are pre-generated by the designers, focusing the creativity of the players into a very specific channel. Toribash is the answer to these games. A fighter where you design and perform all your own moves in gloriously smooth animation, Toribash is one of the best fighters ever, commercial or free.

Welcome to the Indie Showcase, a semi-regular column on Big Download that takes a look at games we haven't covered on the site that we really think you should play.

There may be a lot of quality freeware games out there, but there's also a lot of amazing shareware games. In fact, most of the truly amazing or classic indie games are indeed shareware! So for those of you that want a decent selection of games to spend about $20 on, here's four of the many classic and great shareware indie games for you to pick from. They may not be all that new, but everyone, indie connessoir or not, should play these games at least once.