Yo get a Steam account and just get a wishlist going! My bank is not broke and library be full of great games brought on sales … like I only buy when games are 75-90% off …. And this happens more than you think!
Man I wish they would mention OpenTDD in this list, if you like money making tycoon games it is definitely for you. (Don't even bother with the trains I've played for years and can't figure them out, they're super complicated.)
Personally it's too complicated for me. I'm the kind of guy who likes to read all the skills before taking one. You can imagine my face (😧) when I saw that skill tree I had to read. I've played a couple hours, nice game, but I prefer Diablo 2 (and they remaked it !)
CoD Warzone & Warframe should be on the list - you can totally have a lot of fun without having to pay - pretty amazing graphics for free! They have a lot of indies on the list and the categories should have broken it down to have 10 free best indies, 10 free best AAA and 10 free best demos/betas!
I don’t see how some generic creepypasta crap would negatively affect your mental health. EDIT:I know this person was exaggerating for humor, but the horror of the game still falls flat.
@@josephkeen7224 It falls flat for you. For a child, someone who doesn't know what's coming, or someone unfamiliar with computer, it can be a frightening experience.
I don't remember how I ended up with it, but I somehow found myself in possession of a copy of No One Lives Forever back in its day and it was one of those games where I overlooked it based little information. Installed it one day out of boredom, next thing I knew my mother was banging on my bedroom door telling me to go to sleep. The storyline alone is so entertaining and hilarious that I would recommend it to anyone looking for a shooter that doesn't take itself seriously. Especially now that I know it's playable on modern systems.
@@MyNameIsGhost You have to either get lucky with drops and trade yourself up or invest a bit of money when you get a good % sale. I got a 75% sale on the ingame currency back in the day and went 50/50 with my brother who traded up insanely fast cause he abused the market. Its not really p2w but you wont get into the good mods, prime chars besites trading up or paying
I'm glad I'm not the only one that was expecting to see S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Anomaly. It could easily be number 1 on this list with everything it gives you. It's essentially an entire S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game with tons of improvements.
@@tsb247 I've played most the major (and some of the smaller) S.T.A.L.K.E.R mods, DEMOSFEN is probably my favorite and personally I'd say it's the best mod, not tried Anomaly for a while tho.
Not quite. A lot of convenience upgrades make the game more enjoyable. Although by the time you need them, you are serious about the game. And it would take less than $60 to get most of what you need. Oh and some spell mtx are more visible than default. And there are predatory loot boxes. Still a great game with lots of content
@@kingofholland4662 played it for a few hours, never touched again. Just didn't hook me. POE spoiled me in terms of high speed combat, everything else feel slow.
Unturned should have a spot here. Its a free to play zombie survival game, basically a dumbed down blocky version of DayZ. You can play online, but also has a single player mode. Has base building, typical survival system (Food, Water, etc), and a tiny bit of rpg elements (You can gain experience that allows you to upgrade various perks. You can configure the single player experience to make it more challenging and hard. It's also got a huge modding community that make anything from new guns and vehicles to whole new maps. Despite it's blocky textures, its a really fun game. The only microtransactions are cosmetic stuff. Also, the game was made by only one person.
Definitely one of the best games I have ever played and it's completely free. The amount of content is insane and the game depth and replayability alone is worth a $60 price-tag. I just reached 3,000 hours and I'm not even tired of the game yet because it's constantly updating and adding new content.
It’s a good game but it’s also season based grinding. If you’re into super grind and character building games it’s super good but if you get bored with grind then you’ll get bored easy.
Honestly undefeated is like invincible in a way, would be great if they ended up turning it into a mashup. That small team of developers with the minds behind invincible, top tier shit right there
Recently got into warframe after a pause of 5 years. It's amazing how much there is to do plus you can trade items for their premium currency pretty easily, so you never actually have to put real cash into this
I'm really surprised Genshin Impact was mentioned here but not Warframe, the only free game I spent money just to support the developers & to let them know they deserve the support, even with the bugs & miss ups & whatnot, they did AN AMAZING job & they're still doing so!
@@MEYH3M i beg to differ. i am a playing on PS4, never in my 1500 hours have I invested single penny in warframe. You just have to understand basic economics.
What I really liked is Everlasting Summer on steam! Its a visual novel with some mature content, but the story is amazing. You feel like you're in a summer camp! Multiple endings. It was a good experience.
If there is a part 2 for this topic, take a look into Open RCT 2 (open roller coaster tycoon 2). It's basically one of the most nostalgic tycoon management games that many of us do remember playing the original RCT 1 and 2 but Open RCT2 is open source (basically free to get) so it can have custom scenarios and maps which helps with replayability let alone with the amount of scenarios you get when playing vanilla
The community of Zero-K is still active to this day.Usually on weeekends but there are at least 30 players every evening in Europe.Also updates are still rolling.
Endereal: Forgotten Stories (on Steam). However you need Skyrim to be able to run it. Many folk say it was better than Skyrim. Am surprised Team Fortress 2 was not on this list. However I am glad it was not. I am way more interested in free single player stuff, rather than free arena PvP games.
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Genshin Impact does actually not require to buy anything. The entire story can be played trough F2P.
i love that genshin is on here. I recently started playing genshin just outta curiosity and i really thought id hit a wall at one point where id have to spend money but nope, havent needed to spend a single dime in all my time of playing and the gameplay doesnt even encourage you to do so either! all the content in the gam can seemingly be cleared with 4 stars that you get and you dont even need any of the 5 stars for anything. really good experience so far
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly is probably one of the best totally free single player games. There're actually several different stalker standalone mods worth checking out but for someone new to the series, Anomaly would be the best start.
Tons of thanks for putting this together. Don't really care about platformers or arcady-y games, but Dark Mod and Cry of Fear really pulled the Half-Life and Thief off the nostalgia bag 🙂
@@henrlima87 then he should have said that. Himno, isn't a difficult game, but some parts will be frustrating bc all the levels look the same, and there are check points to reach. Falling into water restarts the player at the bottom again, which is not the "stress free" game the devs, and lazy game journos, say it is. Flower, in my most humble, is a much better choice for relaxing gaming.
Considering how much fun I've had with Genshin Impact, I have to leave a note mentioning that there's only one microtransaction in the game (technically theres also battle pass-like thing, but that works pretty much like any other battle pass). It gets you a special currency that's called Genesis Crystals that are either used to buy cosmetics, booster bundles, or can be converted into the "Gacha Currency" called Primo Gems. BUT, you don't NEED to spend any actual money to get Primo Gems; you get them through doing the story, events, exploring, and even dailies. Heck, even achievements will give you some. I whole-heartedly agree with gameranx that Genshin Impact is a great game, but don't be put off when they said that it has "Free-to-Play" elements. You don't have to spend a dime to enjoy it, it just may take a bit longer depending on your "luck" with RNG.
No need to explain. I think most people know that while it allows and even encourages people to sink cash, it is very easy to enjoy for free. For the amount of content, most games would charge full price, and I am guessing (might be wrong) that if you were to allocate the price of a game (30-60 bucks), you could probably have plenty of these gems to use as you please. Free to play games can have ways to spend money, as long as they are fun to play for free as well. Imo league of legends did this well. It allows you to buy champs with money, but you don't really need to and the game is super fun just for free. As long as you enjoy hyper competitive online games with all the toxicity that entails.
Genshin Impact has given me a huge mix of emotions in the last year. I love it but I hate it because it’s consumed my life. I’m more consistently doing my dailies than I am at washing the dishes. Haven’t spent a dime on it and I’ve had a blast.
I love it too! It's so fun and awesome, and while it's not the best game out there it's super enjoyable and the characters and gameplay are very well designed. I also think that it's great how you can do mostly anything without spending money. In fact I'd say the experience if better without spending, unless it's for a skin or something which you can't get otherwise, because buying primos removes the excitement of each wish.
Pokemon Uranium! A fan game in the style of the OG Pokemon games, with a new mechanic of radioactivity and Pokemon that use it. It was taken down right away, but it is very easy to find online.
An MMO game called Warframe can be play as single player/solo mode which allows u to pause the game. Platinum(micro transaction) can be obtain easily in the game. Most frames(character) can be obtain without spending a dime. Platinum is mostly use as a way to fast forward the crafting process or cosmetics(doesn't boost any stat, it's just for the looks). A game where majority are F2P player. Also with a friendly community (most veteran will help you).
Some other ones I know people like but I'm not big into: -Counter Strike Global Offensive -Dota 2 -Apex Legend There are some other battleroyals and mobas.
Great video highlighting some good looking games. Will you make and release more videos like this around the holidays? After buying presents for family and friends, new games are difficult to fit into the budget and these free games appear entertaining and fun.
WARZONE 2100: One of the first RTS games to use 3D graphics, it's still being maintained and updated. It's a post apocalyptic setting where you play as a military organization trying to rebuild some form of civilization. The tech tree is huge and intimidating, and unlike other RTS games, you don't research units. Instead, you research propulsion systems, hulls and weapon systems, then design your own tanks from the stuff you researched. A really fun and unique system I haven't seen in other RTS games.
Thank You for this! When I first played POE I was shocked after only a couple hours in that it was completely free. After several hours in I purchased a couple of colored weapon effects just to support in some small way towards a game that the team had put SO much love into.
Path of Exile way too low on the list, you literally get 100+ hours of content in an amazing aarpg for free. AND all the microtransactions are completely cosmetic!
the quality of life upgrades aren't 'purely cosmetic', given how much extra crap you get from the various 'expansion gimmicks' you will need to buy extra storage slots to manage them.
Pokemon uranium was another fan game that turned out as an excellent throwback to classic pokemon games. it did get pulled, but i'm sure it can still be found.
wow, I didn't know the No One Lives Forever games are free. I am tempted to download those and replay them since it has been many years after last playing. NOLF is one of my alltime favorite FPS games.
A few I’d recommend Popgoes:a fnaf fan game that is surprisingly well done, and while I wouldn’t consider it scary it’s surprisingly addictive The Elder Scrools 2 daggerfall:Bethesda released it for free for an elder scrolls anniversary (can’t remember which one), and some fans are working on a Unity engine port called Daggerfall Unity (which is basically GZDoom for Daggerfall) Lycanthorn 1&2:Castlevania inspired standalone Doom wads made by the same guy that made Shrine 1&2
highly recommend Path of Exile. I tried it because it reminded me of the first Diablo. I ended up sinking like 800 hours into it. It was all I played for months. good times
I was expecting to see Sky children of light on the list but I guess it wasn't entertaining enough. Sky is a free adventure game. Where you can fly and explore the disappearance of the other people before.
If you actually lived through the ZX Spectrum, C64, Master System, PC Engine and Megadrive era the games on this list just do not appeal to you aside from Path of Exiles and Genshin Impact. I may be on my own with this view but with the amount of excellent looking next gen free to play games that I have on my PS5 hard drive, I’m stunned that so many have been omitted from the your list in place of what can only be described as early 90’s throwbacks. I believe in moving forwards not back
I think because technically it's a multiplayer game that can be played solo, and something like PoE is a single player experience that can also have multiplayer elements.
Holy shit dude, No One Lives Forever were my favourite games when I was a kid and they came out. They were the reason I instantly fell in love with Bioshock when I first played it. I remembered the big scuba dude from No One Lives Forever 2. That's awesome to hear that someone has made them playable. Thanks for the recommend! I always felt it was a shame I never see anyone talk about that game.
I was really disappointed With that game.. I got it for Christmas on Xbox when it first came out…i guess I just expected more..the gameplay felt very stiff..and it just had so much wasted potential
Battle for Wesnoth. A strategy/RPG that is similar to games like Warsong/Langrisser. 100% free, class upgrades, a long story, difficult, just a great game.
Shouldn't Warframe be in this list? I haven't played that game for a while, but I remember it being very good, considering f2p. Also, path of exile is better than most that you ranked above it, imho.
you can lower your world rank to make things easier can only lower it by one level but still, it helps a lot. Unless you mean getting higher ranks is hard, then yeah it takes a long time
@@arts3802 been playing for a while and I haven't seen any reason to go past 45, I've been there for a long time and I haven't felt the urge to advance any further all the story elements and gameplay is set to 30 or below so to get through the game think the max anyone should shoot for is 35 unless they really want the challenge. if I advanced right now I could probably go up to 60 if possible with all the exp I have in my Adventure rank. then of course there is the final upgrade to your characters that does need adventure rank of 50 so there is that.
@@Nobody_Fn_Important EDIT: Mega whales are just reaching AR60* Even like the mega whales haven’t hit 60 yet, it’s so far off, just for example you need 360k experience to go from 50-56, I’ve wanted to do it in one shot so I’ve been saving. I’m at about 400k saved adventure exp atm. If you don’t want any challenge, for sure stay low level, but I love to max out my characters, so I needed 50 at least. Even now that I’ve been at 50 for awhile, I’m feeling the lure of the higher rarity material drops from the higher world levels, so I’ll probably go up to 56 in the next couple weeks.
I thought Star Wars: The Old Republic would be on this list. It's an MMO but an absolutely incredible story-driven experience that can be completed as a single player game. It's a Bioware game and even has choices and consequences. There are 8 campaigns which are all unique that you can play through at NO cost.
I played through half of it before a mission killed both of my companions and left me dead in the water. No my companions didn’t come back and I had no way to heal myself without them. Can be played alone but isn’t as easy as one might think.
I'm definitely gonna check Helltaker, also check Battle for Wesnoth on Steam, a great turn-based tactical game with multiple stories and also multiplayer.
WoW, NOLF is one of my all-time favorites, I still have the NOLF1 CD and Soundtrack CD. (I lost the NOLF2 one over the years) I haven't played them in years though and was completely unaware of the revival website. I'm going to have a lot of nostalgic fun this afternoon. Edited to add:(Even crazier I just realized this vid is 2yo! Crazier still is that NOLF is as funny and fun to play as it ever was. Truly looks better than a game that old has any right to look.)
Surprised that Arid was not on this list (or in the comments). It is a free game currently on Steam. I played it recently and it was a pretty decent survival game. Best way to describe it would be The Long Dark, but in a desert.
There is a big legal distinction between free and abandonware, I appreciate that the video ended saying these are "mostly legit" Nobody's house will be raided over downloading, but it's important for people to understand what is and isn't legal distrobution
I think Another Metroid 2 Remake is actually available on the PS Vita as well. It’s a home brew port. But if you open up the vita home brew browser app. Which is like the psn store for home brew apps and games, you can find it under the ports section and download it there. Vita is an underrated console and one of my favorite handhelds. So I wanted to point this out for anyone that was interested in the game mentioned but also had a vita or just to shine light on the awesome home brew community that did the work to port the game over
"Gravitas" is missing, it is a game very inspired by the Portal saga, but at the same time it has its own scene, it is very short but entertaining, and the characters that appear are very memorable.
Kudos for the NOLF mention; that game is in IP hell with no company willing to negotiate or do any of the work needed to untangle who "owns" what. (It's sort of a copyright deadlock, but for IP.)
Hey gameranx. Love your videos but would like to give you guys a suggestion. For this video and future videos it wouldve been helpful to let us know which platforms these games are on
This is an awesome video for me and my broke homies
broke homies d best
My people
Yo get a Steam account and just get a wishlist going! My bank is not broke and library be full of great games brought on sales … like I only buy when games are 75-90% off …. And this happens more than you think!
Word up
I resent this comment, but I am sadly a broke homie, so I'll allow it
Hey, guy behind Shrine II here! Thank you so much for putting the game in here!
Man I wish they would mention OpenTDD in this list, if you like money making tycoon games it is definitely for you. (Don't even bother with the trains I've played for years and can't figure them out, they're super complicated.)
Hey Mengo, thanks for your work bro.
Thankyou a lot for your game bro very excited to play it
Nice! I'm about to try the game out for the first time! Love to see the exposure
1:39 " with a seriously in depth skill tree". Shows most ridiculous skill tree I've ever seen lmao
😂
That ain't a skill tree. That's a skill forest.
@@sherb1750 hell its a skill spreadsheet at this point ;)
factor in unique items and all the other ways to modify your gear and skills, this tree is just the tip of the ice berg
Personally it's too complicated for me. I'm the kind of guy who likes to read all the skills before taking one. You can imagine my face (😧) when I saw that skill tree I had to read. I've played a couple hours, nice game, but I prefer Diablo 2 (and they remaked it !)
Stalker Anomaly should be on this list. It's basically Stalker 2 before Stalker 2.
CoD Warzone & Warframe should be on the list - you can totally have a lot of fun without having to pay - pretty amazing graphics for free! They have a lot of indies on the list and the categories should have broken it down to have 10 free best indies, 10 free best AAA and 10 free best demos/betas!
@@mikespike2099 what part of single player do you not get?
@@Xzrohrh fk left my fking fact boy brainz at home!
@@mikespike2099 warzone is against other players.
It’s not a single player game
Can't wait to play anomaly I'm on Clear Sky now never played the series before ShoC was amazing with few choice mods
"Warcraft 2 with the serial numbers filed off" is one of the best descriptions of a game ever.
Remember Doki Doki Literature club might be free but you pay with your mental health.
You're free to lose your mind~
I don’t see how some generic creepypasta crap would negatively affect your mental health.
EDIT:I know this person was exaggerating for humor, but the horror of the game still falls flat.
@@josephkeen7224 It falls flat for you. For a child, someone who doesn't know what's coming, or someone unfamiliar with computer, it can be a frightening experience.
@@minasthirith6314 DDLC was a horror? I thought it was a comedy
@@minasthirith6314 smol girl go snap
I wish someday, a dev team will make an open world rpg for Ninja Turtles
Ninja Turtles mmo would be good
@@d1scoduck125 no
Why not?
@@d1scoduck125 they probably don’t like mmos
Stop wishing and start making. Even if it never goes anywhere you'll learn a lot of stuff along the way.
I don't remember how I ended up with it, but I somehow found myself in possession of a copy of No One Lives Forever back in its day and it was one of those games where I overlooked it based little information. Installed it one day out of boredom, next thing I knew my mother was banging on my bedroom door telling me to go to sleep. The storyline alone is so entertaining and hilarious that I would recommend it to anyone looking for a shooter that doesn't take itself seriously. Especially now that I know it's playable on modern systems.
fair warning, some of the dialogue hasn't aged well. I'd forgotten about that part of the game.😓
Stalker Anomaly, Warframe, and the underrated IJI (from Remar games).
apparently warframe is p2w now or atleast once u get to a certain point
@@MyNameIsGhost Never heard that. And that's not true at all. Warframe and Path of Exile are an example of FTP made right.
@@MyNameIsGhost You have to either get lucky with drops and trade yourself up or invest a bit of money when you get a good % sale. I got a 75% sale on the ingame currency back in the day and went 50/50 with my brother who traded up insanely fast cause he abused the market. Its not really p2w but you wont get into the good mods, prime chars besites trading up or paying
I'm glad I'm not the only one that was expecting to see S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Anomaly. It could easily be number 1 on this list with everything it gives you. It's essentially an entire S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game with tons of improvements.
@@tsb247 I've played most the major (and some of the smaller) S.T.A.L.K.E.R mods, DEMOSFEN is probably my favorite and personally I'd say it's the best mod, not tried Anomaly for a while tho.
Path of exiles micro transactions are not only ignorable. They are completely visual only. And the gameplay experience is great.
Not quite. A lot of convenience upgrades make the game more enjoyable. Although by the time you need them, you are serious about the game. And it would take less than $60 to get most of what you need. Oh and some spell mtx are more visible than default. And there are predatory loot boxes. Still a great game with lots of content
Grim Dawn blows poe out of the water. Give it a try if you havent. Thank me later
@@kingofholland4662 Sure but it's $25 on steam. For something that's f2p and new content every 3 months, Poe is incredible
Feels like what D3 should've felt like imo
@@kingofholland4662 played it for a few hours, never touched again. Just didn't hook me. POE spoiled me in terms of high speed combat, everything else feel slow.
Unturned should have a spot here. Its a free to play zombie survival game, basically a dumbed down blocky version of DayZ. You can play online, but also has a single player mode. Has base building, typical survival system (Food, Water, etc), and a tiny bit of rpg elements (You can gain experience that allows you to upgrade various perks. You can configure the single player experience to make it more challenging and hard. It's also got a huge modding community that make anything from new guns and vehicles to whole new maps. Despite it's blocky textures, its a really fun game. The only microtransactions are cosmetic stuff. Also, the game was made by only one person.
never played path of exile myself but from the looks it seems like it should have been ranked a little bit higher up
I think it's random order.
Definitely one of the best games I have ever played and it's completely free. The amount of content is insane and the game depth and replayability alone is worth a $60 price-tag. I just reached 3,000 hours and I'm not even tired of the game yet because it's constantly updating and adding new content.
oh ya. it's so good.
i found the game incredibly boring after a few hours of gameplay even while playing with a friend
It’s a good game but it’s also season based grinding. If you’re into super grind and character building games it’s super good but if you get bored with grind then you’ll get bored easy.
Honestly undefeated is like invincible in a way, would be great if they ended up turning it into a mashup. That small team of developers with the minds behind invincible, top tier shit right there
Sonic!!!! Thanks for the nice list!! Try the load runner very nice too
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Recently got into warframe after a pause of 5 years. It's amazing how much there is to do plus you can trade items for their premium currency pretty easily, so you never actually have to put real cash into this
Warframe is a 60$ game with 5 sequels disguised as a single free to play game.
I'm really surprised Genshin Impact was mentioned here but not Warframe, the only free game I spent money just to support the developers & to let them know they deserve the support, even with the bugs & miss ups & whatnot, they did AN AMAZING job & they're still doing so!
@@khaledbebo9 Most people seem to forget that Warframe is Free, because the game is on AAA level and even is better then most full priced games.
grindframe
@@MEYH3M i beg to differ. i am a playing on PS4, never in my 1500 hours have I invested single penny in warframe. You just have to understand basic economics.
Path of Exile's skills are the most satisfying out of any ARPG I've played.
What I really liked is Everlasting Summer on steam!
Its a visual novel with some mature content, but the story is amazing. You feel like you're in a summer camp! Multiple endings. It was a good experience.
ill check it out
If there is a part 2 for this topic, take a look into Open RCT 2 (open roller coaster tycoon 2). It's basically one of the most nostalgic tycoon management games that many of us do remember playing the original RCT 1 and 2 but Open RCT2 is open source (basically free to get) so it can have custom scenarios and maps which helps with replayability let alone with the amount of scenarios you get when playing vanilla
Can't believe Cry of Fear was mentioned on a Gameranx video. One of my favorite horror games, personally. Right up there with Silent Hill 3.
If that game is “Warcraft with the serial number filed off”, then Warcraft is Dune II or Command & Conquer with the serial number filed off.
The community of Zero-K is still active to this day.Usually on weeekends but there are at least 30 players every evening in Europe.Also updates are still rolling.
I play it almost daily
Endereal: Forgotten Stories (on Steam). However you need Skyrim to be able to run it. Many folk say it was better than Skyrim.
Am surprised Team Fortress 2 was not on this list. However I am glad it was not. I am way more interested in free single player stuff, rather than free arena PvP games.
Genshin Impact does actually not require to buy anything. The entire story can be played trough F2P.
i love that genshin is on here. I recently started playing genshin just outta curiosity and i really thought id hit a wall at one point where id have to spend money but nope, havent needed to spend a single dime in all my time of playing and the gameplay doesnt even encourage you to do so either! all the content in the gam can seemingly be cleared with 4 stars that you get and you dont even need any of the 5 stars for anything. really good experience so far
I’ve been playing for almost a year and have almost spent $800
Hey, great video! But the correct name for game #13 is MALDITA CASTILLA (or Cursed Castilla) not Matilda lol
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly is probably one of the best totally free single player games. There're actually several different stalker standalone mods worth checking out but for someone new to the series, Anomaly would be the best start.
It's not free you liar
Tons of thanks for putting this together. Don't really care about platformers or arcady-y games, but Dark Mod and Cry of Fear really pulled the Half-Life and Thief off the nostalgia bag 🙂
"You can't die in Himno"
[Ends segment with character falling into water, to be restarted at the beginning of the map]
he just pleasantly drowned
I think he meant there is no "game over".
@@henrlima87 then he should have said that.
Himno, isn't a difficult game, but some parts will be frustrating bc all the levels look the same, and there are check points to reach. Falling into water restarts the player at the bottom again, which is not the "stress free" game the devs, and lazy game journos, say it is.
Flower, in my most humble, is a much better choice for relaxing gaming.
@@sirsplintfastthepungent1373 i never played this or flower. Played journey from the same devs as flower and its excellent.
I like a free game called Splitgate it's an FPS that has modes like COD and you can place portals on blue walls that work like the game Portal.
"Singleplayer"
@@insaneasylum4845 I didn't notice that
You forgot 'ECHO ARENA'! The NPC's in there are hilarious: "i'm a real person in Toledo you idiot!" LOL. So clever...
Genshin impact may be free but you pay with your time and self respect.
Time? Yes, self respect? No
yeah lol what self respect?
self respect won’t pay dev’s bills nor their kid’s college either.
@rebel its a great game. Its just addictive af.
Love this video thanks for taking the time to make it!
Glad you liked it
Considering how much fun I've had with Genshin Impact, I have to leave a note mentioning that there's only one microtransaction in the game (technically theres also battle pass-like thing, but that works pretty much like any other battle pass). It gets you a special currency that's called Genesis Crystals that are either used to buy cosmetics, booster bundles, or can be converted into the "Gacha Currency" called Primo Gems.
BUT, you don't NEED to spend any actual money to get Primo Gems; you get them through doing the story, events, exploring, and even dailies. Heck, even achievements will give you some.
I whole-heartedly agree with gameranx that Genshin Impact is a great game, but don't be put off when they said that it has "Free-to-Play" elements. You don't have to spend a dime to enjoy it, it just may take a bit longer depending on your "luck" with RNG.
No need to explain. I think most people know that while it allows and even encourages people to sink cash, it is very easy to enjoy for free. For the amount of content, most games would charge full price, and I am guessing (might be wrong) that if you were to allocate the price of a game (30-60 bucks), you could probably have plenty of these gems to use as you please.
Free to play games can have ways to spend money, as long as they are fun to play for free as well. Imo league of legends did this well. It allows you to buy champs with money, but you don't really need to and the game is super fun just for free. As long as you enjoy hyper competitive online games with all the toxicity that entails.
Genshin Impact has given me a huge mix of emotions in the last year. I love it but I hate it because it’s consumed my life. I’m more consistently doing my dailies than I am at washing the dishes. Haven’t spent a dime on it and I’ve had a blast.
I love it too! It's so fun and awesome, and while it's not the best game out there it's super enjoyable and the characters and gameplay are very well designed. I also think that it's great how you can do mostly anything without spending money. In fact I'd say the experience if better without spending, unless it's for a skin or something which you can't get otherwise, because buying primos removes the excitement of each wish.
Pokemon Uranium! A fan game in the style of the OG Pokemon games, with a new mechanic of radioactivity and Pokemon that use it. It was taken down right away, but it is very easy to find online.
Any game on thr TI-83 calculator. Thank you for getting me through high school before any of us had cell phones!
Like that snake game! Also, multiplayer Tetris was awesome.
@@ScreaminSeahawk I had some kind of bully game where you could buy spit balls and rubber bands and make money somehow
An MMO game called Warframe can be play as single player/solo mode which allows u to pause the game. Platinum(micro transaction) can be obtain easily in the game. Most frames(character) can be obtain without spending a dime. Platinum is mostly use as a way to fast forward the crafting process or cosmetics(doesn't boost any stat, it's just for the looks).
A game where majority are F2P player. Also with a friendly community (most veteran will help you).
-Star Wars the old Republic
-Warframe
-Trepang 2
-TeamFortress 2
How these where not mentioned blows my mind.
Some other ones I know people like but I'm not big into:
-Counter Strike Global Offensive
-Dota 2
-Apex Legend
There are some other battleroyals and mobas.
Great video highlighting some good looking games. Will you make and release more videos like this around the holidays? After buying presents for family and friends, new games are difficult to fit into the budget and these free games appear entertaining and fun.
Those rings in Undefeated gave me Superman 64 Vietnam flashbacks
Thank you Jake for providing additional games to our Steam library.
WARZONE 2100:
One of the first RTS games to use 3D graphics, it's still being maintained and updated.
It's a post apocalyptic setting where you play as a military organization trying to rebuild some form of civilization.
The tech tree is huge and intimidating, and unlike other RTS games, you don't research units. Instead, you research propulsion systems, hulls and weapon systems, then design your own tanks from the stuff you researched. A really fun and unique system I haven't seen in other RTS games.
Thank You for this! When I first played POE I was shocked after only a couple hours in that it was completely free. After several hours in I purchased a couple of colored weapon effects just to support in some small way towards a game that the team had put SO much love into.
Wait, how did he not mention Muck? It’s solo player and is rated Overwhelmingly Positive on steam.
We must start a REVOLUTION!!!
Path of Exile way too low on the list, you literally get 100+ hours of content in an amazing aarpg for free. AND all the microtransactions are completely cosmetic!
It's a random list, not from worse (25) to best (1). Path of Exile definitely a good game ! 😉
the quality of life upgrades aren't 'purely cosmetic', given how much extra crap you get from the various 'expansion gimmicks' you will need to buy extra storage slots to manage them.
Pokemon uranium was another fan game that turned out as an excellent throwback to classic pokemon games. it did get pulled, but i'm sure it can still be found.
I only saw 2 games on this list that actually caught my attention
wow, I didn't know the No One Lives Forever games are free. I am tempted to download those and replay them since it has been many years after last playing. NOLF is one of my alltime favorite FPS games.
I was literally looking for free games and this video drops... noice
Woo
@@gameranxTV you shadow banned me?
@@Mr.NotNICE_Artist what lol how u get shadowbanned on yt
Cuz nobody wants that bullshit in their comments
@@depressedpersiantowtruckman yet here you are replying to my comment when you could easily ignore and block my account weirdo
Thanks for mentioning No One Lives Forever series. NOLF2 is older than F.E.A.R. but looks so much better.
"Here is blinding white screens 25 times for you and we do this everyday!" 🙁
A few I’d recommend
Popgoes:a fnaf fan game that is surprisingly well done, and while I wouldn’t consider it scary it’s surprisingly addictive
The Elder Scrools 2 daggerfall:Bethesda released it for free for an elder scrolls anniversary (can’t remember which one), and some fans are working on a Unity engine port called Daggerfall Unity (which is basically GZDoom for Daggerfall)
Lycanthorn 1&2:Castlevania inspired standalone Doom wads made by the same guy that made Shrine 1&2
Oh wow, I'm so glad the NOLF games get some recognition! Loved them so much, especially 2.
highly recommend Path of Exile. I tried it because it reminded me of the first Diablo. I ended up sinking like 800 hours into it. It was all I played for months. good times
I dont know if its worth it
Does the progression feel like a chore or does it happen naturally through objectives
I was expecting to see Sky children of light on the list but I guess it wasn't entertaining enough. Sky is a free adventure game. Where you can fly and explore the disappearance of the other people before.
Enderal is free, as long as you own Skyrim on pc. And it's a full-fledged open world Fantasy RPG with up to 100 hrs of playtime/playthrough
If you actually lived through the ZX Spectrum, C64, Master System, PC Engine and Megadrive era the games on this list just do not appeal to you aside from Path of Exiles and Genshin Impact. I may be on my own with this view but with the amount of excellent looking next gen free to play games that I have on my PS5 hard drive, I’m stunned that so many have been omitted from the your list in place of what can only be described as early 90’s throwbacks. I believe in moving forwards not back
Used to Play Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden on my Pentium 4 PC back when i was Junior High School.
I'm so confused on how Warframe didn't make the list
I think because technically it's a multiplayer game that can be played solo, and something like PoE is a single player experience that can also have multiplayer elements.
Sometimes I wish you guys would mention what platforms they're on but great video :)
just gone and grabbed NOLF 1+2 Loved them games , they should bring back Kate Archer . They was one off my Fav FPS back in the day
I'd rather they keep sleeping giants sleep, just look how they massacred the XIII "remake". but yes. NOLF1+2 forever !
Nightdive Studios tried to acquire the rights to make a remake, the problem is - nobody knows who owns the rights to the series currently.
@@proOutlander and the nightmare he'll of ownership is why it hasn't been taken down.
Holy shit dude, No One Lives Forever were my favourite games when I was a kid and they came out. They were the reason I instantly fell in love with Bioshock when I first played it. I remembered the big scuba dude from No One Lives Forever 2. That's awesome to hear that someone has made them playable. Thanks for the recommend! I always felt it was a shame I never see anyone talk about that game.
Vampyr was a really good single player game but was only free with ps plus sadly but I really enjoyed it
I was really disappointed With that game.. I got it for Christmas on Xbox when it first came out…i guess I just expected more..the gameplay felt very stiff..and it just had so much wasted potential
@Dante Toshiro64 sub
Battle for Wesnoth. A strategy/RPG that is similar to games like Warsong/Langrisser. 100% free, class upgrades, a long story, difficult, just a great game.
Shouldn't Warframe be in this list? I haven't played that game for a while, but I remember it being very good, considering f2p. Also, path of exile is better than most that you ranked above it, imho.
All am saying don't play it right now unless you like ea
every time i read Warframe i see Warface.. eesh that also *used to be* a good fun game
@@thegamingarmdilo4788 urgh, I don't, lol
I know I really don't know why I thought that name was good but a dumbass is a dumbass
Pirates be like : Hold my torrent
Genshin Impact was fun a little bit, but it pushes the micro-transactions hard. Path of Exile and Warframe are great games.
How, only if you need overpowered weapons and characters which are not required to play the story.
No One Lives Forever that game deserves more attention and praise
one of my top FPS of all time , loved Kate Archer
I like genshin impact but the adventure rank system made it really hard for me to get through the story
you can lower your world rank to make things easier can only lower it by one level but still, it helps a lot. Unless you mean getting higher ranks is hard, then yeah it takes a long time
@@Nobody_Fn_Important Like, you can get to AR50 in like three months, or even less, but you can get to 45 in a month or less.
@@arts3802 been playing for a while and I haven't seen any reason to go past 45, I've been there for a long time and I haven't felt the urge to advance any further all the story elements and gameplay is set to 30 or below so to get through the game think the max anyone should shoot for is 35 unless they really want the challenge. if I advanced right now I could probably go up to 60 if possible with all the exp I have in my Adventure rank. then of course there is the final upgrade to your characters that does need adventure rank of 50 so there is that.
@@Nobody_Fn_Important
EDIT: Mega whales are just reaching AR60*
Even like the mega whales haven’t hit 60 yet, it’s so far off, just for example you need 360k experience to go from 50-56, I’ve wanted to do it in one shot so I’ve been saving. I’m at about 400k saved adventure exp atm.
If you don’t want any challenge, for sure stay low level, but I love to max out my characters, so I needed 50 at least. Even now that I’ve been at 50 for awhile, I’m feeling the lure of the higher rarity material drops from the higher world levels, so I’ll probably go up to 56 in the next couple weeks.
I'm almost at AR58 and I clap everything at World Level 8, then again that's pretty easy when you have a cracked out Ganyu lmao
I challange you guys to count how many times did gameranx said ,,content'' in this video.
I thought Star Wars: The Old Republic would be on this list. It's an MMO but an absolutely incredible story-driven experience that can be completed as a single player game. It's a Bioware game and even has choices and consequences. There are 8 campaigns which are all unique that you can play through at NO cost.
I second that
I played through half of it before a mission killed both of my companions and left me dead in the water. No my companions didn’t come back and I had no way to heal myself without them. Can be played alone but isn’t as easy as one might think.
In case anyone is interested, it's not Matilda Castilla, it's Maldita Castilla.
Props to gameranx for highlighting grey area non-licensed games
Seriously increased my respect for them
Forgot warframe
Sonic roboblast was the first Sonic the hedgehog game I ever played I can't believe I forgot about this
I'm definitely gonna check Helltaker, also check Battle for Wesnoth on Steam, a great turn-based tactical game with multiple stories and also multiplayer.
The skill tree for Path of Exile is insane
WoW, NOLF is one of my all-time favorites, I still have the NOLF1 CD and Soundtrack CD. (I lost the NOLF2 one over the years) I haven't played them in years though and was completely unaware of the revival website. I'm going to have a lot of nostalgic fun this afternoon. Edited to add:(Even crazier I just realized this vid is 2yo! Crazier still is that NOLF is as funny and fun to play as it ever was. Truly looks better than a game that old has any right to look.)
I was absolutely devastated to not see Dan The Man on this list. That game is literally amazing.
Talks about stealth games and mentions Deathloop.
Sees Deathloop ad trailer thingy next.
Me: Stealth?
Surprised that Arid was not on this list (or in the comments). It is a free game currently on Steam. I played it recently and it was a pretty decent survival game. Best way to describe it would be The Long Dark, but in a desert.
There is a big legal distinction between free and abandonware, I appreciate that the video ended saying these are "mostly legit"
Nobody's house will be raided over downloading, but it's important for people to understand what is and isn't legal distrobution
I played Wolfenstein, Doom, Hexen and even Half Life before NOLF made me love shooters
Which platform? Please specify
I think Another Metroid 2 Remake is actually available on the PS Vita as well. It’s a home brew port. But if you open up the vita home brew browser app. Which is like the psn store for home brew apps and games, you can find it under the ports section and download it there.
Vita is an underrated console and one of my favorite handhelds. So I wanted to point this out for anyone that was interested in the game mentioned but also had a vita or just to shine light on the awesome home brew community that did the work to port the game over
Great list thanls for the recommendations!! Funny Jake kept saying "Matilda Castilla" when it should be "Maldita Castilla" (Cursed Castilla)
Oh man I completely forgot about maldita castilla. It brings so much nostalgia. Thanks dude!
Alt title:best 2D free games
21's art style looks like legend of zelda and I like that :)
Another game I recommend checking out is Star Wars: The Old Republic. It’s a damn good game with a great story. Think of KOTOR but online.
No one lives forever is such a fucking classic good game. Damn those memories.
commander genius, openra, warzone 2100, dune legacy. dont forget these
"Gravitas" is missing, it is a game very inspired by the Portal saga, but at the same time it has its own scene, it is very short but entertaining, and the characters that appear are very memorable.
Yes thank you for mentioning No one lives forever 1 and 2!!
Kudos for the NOLF mention; that game is in IP hell with no company willing to negotiate or do any of the work needed to untangle who "owns" what. (It's sort of a copyright deadlock, but for IP.)
Nice That they Are free but sadly there wasnt one for Racing Games 😔
Path of Exile, SWTOR, Guild Wars 2, FFXIV (free trial includes main campaign and 1st expac), Splitgate, Valorant
Hey gameranx. Love your videos but would like to give you guys a suggestion. For this video and future videos it wouldve been helpful to let us know which platforms these games are on
1) Masterpiece indie games and visual novels which are free and not many know of.
Respect for giving first place to Cave Story 👍
Path of Exile looks tasty! Especially coz it’s free!