6 Free-To-Play Games That You Should Be Playing - The Gist

Dota 2 OVER league? You guys always do this, haha.

Gamespot's PC game of the year 2012, Guild Wars 2, is entirely free now. or rather, the core game is, you still need to pay a one-time fee if you want the expansion coming out next month. but it's still thousands of hours worth of gameplay with very, very little restrictions, and it's probably the best MMORPG for people that don't like MMORPG tropes.

Path of Exile great game

Path of Exile FTW!!!

Funny, I just started playing SWOTR 2 weeks ago, cause I thought that I should experience Biowares stab at leveling experience. So far I quite like it being a sith inquisitor and constantly making them deliciously evil darkside choices, lightning to the face and betrayal be plenty. Although I heard that the Imperial Agent is supposed to have an even better story.

There are quite a few fun and free smartphone games as well.

Finally, do not forget about the abandonware (pc games that no longer belongs to anyone), many gems there to pick up.

Team Fortress 2 will never get old Jess!

What are the names of the songs, please?

My favorite is TERA.

Path of exile looks awesome. I might try it.

MMO: Can't believe there was zero mention of WildStar as it goes Free to Play TODAY!

MOBA: Individual choice. Mine is Smite.

FPS: Hawken

Can't think of the rest right now, but that's my top 3. Smite takes up a looot of my time. :D

Path of Exile was quite interesting, although it was fairly easy to turn your character into junk if you're not careful (I played it a long time ago, so maybe it's different now). Unfortunately, I started having less time for games, so I turned to Dota 2, which was playable in short bursts, and now Heroes of the Storm, which is even shorter and accessible.

However, credit to Dota and PoE for being extremely in-depth for games that are absolutely free, and now with easily accessible custom game modes for Dota, there really is a lot to do.

Alien Swarm is actually very, very fun, but of course it's a lot better when you have friends around to play next to you. It makes being chased down murky gloomy corridors by skittering claws of death on steroids that much more lively.

Dirty Bomb is a pretty solid F2P game. A fast paced FPS with lots of different characters to play as with their own special abilities. Its still in open beta currently but its more than good enough to play in its current state as a lot of updates are content related with some small bug or balance patches in the mix.

A lot of people compare it to TF2, but it only really shares some similarities. I couldn't get into TF2, but can't put down Dirty Bomb.

Check it out.

Hey Jess, solid work. One question though, isn't there a difference between free-to-play and a game just given away for free? Yes, YES there is, just sayin. One is free to start playing, while the other is just 100% free.

Solid list Jess!

Started playing SWTOR myself (finally) about a month ago, Free-to-Play of course (to see if it's worth playing if you aren't paying). I'm up to level 25 on my 1st character and so far it seems to be worth it. Pretty good game if you can put up with the annoyances/repetitiveness of an MMO playstyle.

Love Hearthstone, Dota 2 and Path of Exile!

No mention of Guild Wars 2? Waaaaaaaaaaaat??