Free to Play games cost nothing to start: the full game, or at least its complete core experience, is downloadable at no charge from the platform that hosts it, and the studio earns its keep through optional cosmetics, battle passes and expansions rather than an up-front price. The model took hold in online shooters and multiplayer arenas, where a large, steady player base matters more than a launch-week sales spike, and some of the most played games on PC today - battle royales, hero shooters, MOBAs and survival titles - are free to play. For the player it means a lower barrier to entry and a game that keeps evolving in seasons, with the trade-off that the best cosmetic gear and some convenience features sit behind in-game purchases.
We list free to play titles here because a game going free is not the same as a game disappearing. Several of these started life as paid releases we sold as digital keys before their publishers switched models, and the pages stay useful for exactly the things a buyer would have wanted anyway: the system requirements, the official age ratings and content descriptors, which features and platforms are supported, and the related gear and add-ons we still stock. Each product page points you straight to the free download on its platform - there is nothing to buy here for the game itself - so use this collection as the reference shelf for the free side of the PC catalogue.
