The F2P Revolution: 25 Killer Online Games You Can Play For Free
One of the biggest trends in gaming over the last half-decade has been the rise of the free to play (F2P) online business model. You might have heard it called “freemium,” or the pejorative “pay to win,” but whatever you call it, it’s here to stay.
You may not have heard of all the free to play games coming out recently (they don’t tend to have the same marketing budget as your Battlefields and Call of Dutys) but you should probably be paying a little more attention. Sure, some of them are a little shallow, or unfair to non-paying customers, but there are F2P games in every genre, and a lot of them are top notch.
So why pay to play? Read on for our list of 25 top-notch free online games. For each game, we'll tell you what you get for free and what costs money, so you never get surprised.
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November 02, 2011 at 8:45pm
Anybody else play any Hellgate: London? I downloaded and played a little, but I have been spending much more time on World of Tanks lately.
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November 02, 2011 at 2:10pm
What about Silkroad Online. Also, I think RF Online is still around too.
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chubbs1900
November 01, 2011 at 7:44am
Vindictus is such an epic game and there arent any weekly restrictions anymore. PvP is around the corner and the customization is just topps. It's a constantly evolving offering. 4 Classes to choose from and 1 on the way. Huge player base and it only seems to be growing. Only downside is that it's easily hacked to be able to beat missions faster.
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Wily_One
October 28, 2011 at 8:12pm
You missed Star Trek Online. It was subscriber based and owned by Atari, but it's been sold and will be going F2P soon.
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praack
October 28, 2011 at 11:05am
battleforge is pretty good, nice graphically, bit strategy in natrue capturing nodes to spawn - or setting up remote ones. nice game play. can make you vid card and cpu struggle at higher settings
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ferariman
October 27, 2011 at 4:16pm
minecraft classic is completely free, but has no monsters. its still epic for building things.
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EZ Ridah
October 27, 2011 at 1:30pm
I gotta give a shout out to Bloodline Champions. I was pretty surprised to not see it in this list since it is a very polished game. It's an arena PvP game similar to Diablo PvP. Definitely would be in the top 5 in this list. Check it out (bloodlinechampions.com).
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Ilander
October 27, 2011 at 12:31pm
I just spent an afternoon trying Vindictus, and it's great! Thanks for the recommend!
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epicfail48
October 27, 2011 at 12:15pm
ive got a bit of a beef with this list. where are runescape and combat arms? both are stellar free to play online games
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Danthrax66
October 27, 2011 at 10:43am
TF2, WoT, and LoL are probably the only ones on that list worth playing.
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dashize
October 27, 2011 at 7:54am
anyone know how to get gunbound to run in win7 i havent been able to play it since buying the new computer.
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DDRDiesel
October 27, 2011 at 7:14am
I love me some LoL, but you guys forgot one game from Ijji that's been around almost as long as Gunbound. GunZ: The Duel. Fast-paced physics-glitch based gameplay, but the learning curve isn't as steep as one would expect. Check it out on Youtube
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October 27, 2011 at 2:25am
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Eoraptor
October 27, 2011 at 12:15am
Oh come on, City of Heroes blows Champions Online out of the water.
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October 27, 2011 at 10:08am
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Balgaroo
October 27, 2011 at 12:13am
The only F2P game I ever really got into was Runes of Magic. That game was anything but F2P at end game. So I will contiue to pay month to month for a game that I'm into (and no I've never once played WOW). Am looking forward to Secret World though. F2P games are for the birds unless they can offer a Pay to Play server with a good population.
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noobstix
October 26, 2011 at 10:43pm
Probably the only MMOs I would say are worth it from that list are Atlantica Online, Vindictus, and Rusty Hearts. Out of those 3, I played AO the most (got my character up to lvl 96 before I decided to quit since I got tired of grinding and PvPing). Although Vindictus was good, I couldn't get past the lag issues and haven't picked it back up since. Rusty Hearts was fun for the 70+ hours I put into it (I played it via Steam) but I wasted some precious exp gains trying to entertain myself while I waited for the patch that raised the level cap, As a result, I had to result to grinding (which I didn't feel like doing). I'll probably play it again once Natasha is released.
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Khoiboi
October 26, 2011 at 10:11pm
I spent around seven years playing Gunbound and got ranked somewhere around the 900th spot overall. I never used an aimbot and I've never cheated in anyway. I would never recommend what gunbound has become to anyone, it's a disappointing game. Because of the paid for items, the game now is dominated by people who are only winning because they can use overpowering weapons available only to paid players. I've played games before where paid service has an "advantage", but gunbound takes it to another level. If you've ever played gunbound, then you would understand what I mean when I say this is the most disappointing death to a game I'll ever see.
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Fenthic
October 26, 2011 at 7:43pm
Suprised you guys didnt include Everquest 2 Extended in your lists.
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