With hundreds of great free games, you don’t have to spend a dime in your efforts to disrupt alien invasions, destroy enemy military equipment, take part in a royal battle or a peaceful party in cards.
And so that you choose a game lesson to your liking, we present a rating of the best free games of 2020 for PC distributed via the free-to-play system.
10. Hearthstone
Genre - online card game
Taking the popular characters from his Warcraft universe (Thrall, Jaina Proudmoore, Anduin Wrynn and many others), Blizzard created one of the best free card games on the web. Players fight each other in a turn-based system of passing moves using various spells and minions in an attempt to reduce the health of their opponent to zero.
This is a deceptively simple premise. Besides the “mana crystals” that determine how many cards — and which cards — you can use in one turn, Hearthstone does not have many unique game mechanics. However, quick matches, a variety of character classes, and a wide range of strategies will surely make you want to play another game.
9. Legends of Runeterra
Genre - online card game
One of the novelties of free games in 2020 takes place in the same universe as the popular MOBA League of Legends. You have to play against another player, with a hand of 4 cards selected randomly (however, from the deck that you make).
The main task of this game is to destroy the enemy Nexus, he is also the embodiment of the player’s health. As soon as the Nexus drops to zero, you win the match. Good luck
8. Apex Legends
Genre - Multiplayer Shooter, Battle Royale
Apex Legends is an intense shootout, a great map and a list of interesting characters. The events of the popular free-to-play game take place in the same universe as the action of the games Titanfall and Titanfall 2.
The course of the match will be familiar to anyone who played the game in the style of "Royal Battle": fall from the sky onto the battlefield, collect weapons and equipment, kill members of the opposing teams.
What distinguishes Apex Legends from the rest is the elements of a heroic shooter. Each of the eight characters proposed to the player before the match has its own unique abilities. And death in this game is not eternal. You can resurrect a fallen comrade from the Lighthouse of Rebirth.
And here there is a system of "ping" or signals with which you can attract the attention of teammates.
7. Fortnite: Battle Royale
Genre - Multiplayer Shooter, Battle Royale
The goal of the game is simple - to kill all other players (and there can be up to 100 people on the map) and become the last who is still standing. But there is one aspect that distinguishes this game from other projects in the "battle royale" genre - construction.
You can build walls, structures and objects that can give you an advantage in battle or make you invulnerable to ambush. To do this, from the very beginning of the match, each player is given a pick.
Due to the relatively small (compared to other Battle Royale) levels of violence on the screen and vivid graphics, the game managed to attract not only male, but also female and children's audiences. The number of registered players in Fortnite: Battle Royale has already exceeded 350 million people.
6. World of Tanks
Genre - Arcade Tank Simulator
One of the most popular free online PC games has spawned several side projects focused on naval and air battles. But not one of them can surpass the intense war offered in the original World of Tanks.
Multiplayer matches of World of Tanks with the participation of armored tanks from 11 countries, including the USA, England, Germany, China, France and the Soviet Union, are distinguished by realistic physics of movement, much attention is paid to the historical reliability of military equipment, and physics of destructibility.
As soon as you feel comfortable in battle, you can join the clan and try to take control of the “global map”, which provides special vehicles and game currency.
5. Warframe
Genre - Third-Person Shooter
If you like the futuristic sci-fi aesthetics of games like Mass Effect and Halo, cool and beautiful combat suits, then you will be satisfied with the gameplay in Warframe. Not for nothing that the player’s base (there are about 40 million of them) is one of the best free-to-play shooters.
Warframe also includes a huge number of customization options that allow you to modify weapons and exo-armor to better adapt the equipment to your specific style of play. You even have access to your personal spacecraft, which is used as a base between missions. However, even on a hard surface, your mobility will not be limited; Seven different parkour movements allow you to move around inaccessible places and attack enemies.
4. RAID: Shadow Legends
Genre - Multiplayer Turn-Based Strategy
Advertising of this game comes from every iron, and it is annoying, right? However, her high-quality visual style, dark fantasy setting and many characters make Shadow Legends an interesting project, which at least should be appreciated by myself.
You can play alone, or join a clan to jointly kill a particularly strong boss and get the best reward.
And also RAID: Shadow Legends is an ideal game for lazy people who dream of “loot coming to the post office”. Most game sessions can be set to autostart, that is, you can just move away from the computer, and the characters will continue to fight on their own.
3. Heroes of the Storm
Genre - MOBA
Another good free online game from Blizzard, but this time you have to play not with cards, but on the battlefield, with weapons in your hands to prove your dexterity, speed and tactical superiority over opponents.
Heroes of the Storm involves a team game (5 players, 2 opposing teams) and includes many heroes, divided into 6 classes:
- Tank
- Melee fighter
- Ranged fighter
- Healer
- Grunt
- Support.
Heroes of the Storm has not reached the same level of fame as League of Legends or Dota 2, but it offers a fun and varied gaming experience. With 15 maps and many game modes (including “Custom Game” in which you can customize any aspect of the game, from the composition of teams to the power of computer players), Heroes of the Storm has enough content for you to play for a long time.
2. Fallout Shelter
Genre Simulator
The Fallout Shelter is such an exciting, charming version of the post-apocalyptic series Bethesda that it almost eclipsed the launch of Fallout 4. The essence of this project is very simple - to attract survivors to your shelter, and then protect them from the invasion of enemies (ghouls, death claws, mutated rats, etc.) d.), and also to avoid hunger and thirst. At the same time, you should keep your wards happy enough to reproduce and restore the human population.
This is a game that takes only a few minutes of your time, but often encourages you to send survivors on various missions to get weapons and various items, defend yourself against raids and build new rooms in the shelter. An additional highlight of Fallout Shelter is a fun cartoon style that young players will appreciate.
1. League of Legends
Genre - MOBA
No list of free games would be complete without League of Legends. Since its inception (and this is the distant 2009), it has constantly evolved, and the player base has long exceeded 100 million people.
LoL can be played for free for a limited number of heroes called champions, and several more can be bought for real money or game currency.
Although the MOBA genre has never been particularly appealing to new players, Riot has created a beginner-friendly multiplayer experience, and there is almost a 100% chance that one of your friends is already playing League of Legends.
