The landscape for free-to-play shooters is more robust and impressive than ever before, lined with an assortment of notable hits like Team Fortress 2, the interstellar Planetside followup, and the rebooted Unreal Tournament. They may not offer the same production values as,, or, but then again, they won’t cost you upwards of $60. Here are our top picks for the best free first-person shooters, so you can frag fools and save money. ‘Paladins: Champions of the Realm’ (Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Windows, MacOS, Nintendo Switch) Blizzard’s Overwatch remains the king of the “hero shooter” multiplayer genre, but Hi-Rez Studios’ Paladins: Champions of the Realm is a great alternative for those who don’t want to sink $40 before they’ve even begun playing. Much like in Overwatch, you select from spread across multiple classes such as “damage,” “flanker,” “support,” and “front line,” each offering a different style of play that can help your team to victory. The tree-like Grover, for instance, can deal out heavy damage with his axe while also healing nearby allies, and the crafty Pip makes use of explosive potions to catch enemies off-guard. Unlike the set classes and abilities offered in Overwatch, Paladins allows you to customize your heroes using a deckbuilding system. There are also pre-build deck loadouts for those looking to jump into a match with a solid chance of contributing, and with three different modes – “Siege,” “Onslaught,” and “Team Deathmatch,” you’ll have plenty of opportunities to try the abilities out. Download now from: (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux) Boasting beautifully-rendered graphics and a well-balanced class system, the still appeals to casual gamers and pros alike, garnering what is still one of the largest player bases on the Steam marketplace more than seven years after its initial debut. The game is a steadfast hybrid of fast-paced combat and intense strategy in which every one of the game’s nine classes exhibits its own powerful strengths and crippling weaknesses. Game modes are straightforward, primarily pitting two teams against one another in an effort to move a cart, capture select points, or steal a briefcase. It’s highly competitive in nature, but it still caters to all skill levels. Like most multiplayer titles, it’s about exploiting the Achilles heel of your enemies while protecting your own, but it relishes a stylized brand of humor that has become iconic for the Team Fortress brand. Few games have held up as well over the years, and to be honest, few probably will. Download now from: ‘Black Squad’ (Windows) Sometimes, you just want to get down to the nitty gritty fundamentals of first-person shooters: the shooting. With Black Squad, NS Studio has created a relentlessly twitchy and precise multiplayer experience that should feel right at home for fans of earlier Call of Duty titles and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The game offers enough variety for players of all styles and ability to feel like they’re making progress and contributing to their team. Getting a kill results in a gloriously over-the-top sound effect and a hefty splatter of blood on nearby walls, so there will never be any doubt whether your target is down. Black Squad promises absolutely zero “pay to win” mechanics, with no gameplay-focused microtransactions available. Instead, you can earn everything through in-game currency or spend extra cash to buy certain cosmetic items, such as weapon skins, before other players. With only and a minimum spec that calls for the aging GTX 560 GPU, you’ll be able to run the game on all but the very oldest machines. Download now from: ‘Warface’ (Windows) Crytek has been developing first-person shooters for nearly two decades, and the company’s experience has shown with polished and flashy games that feel just as good on console as they do on PC. The free-to-play Warface is currently available on PC and will be coming to both Xbox One and PlayStation 4 later this year, and its class-based approach forces teams to work together. Engineers, for instance, are capable of repairing their teammates’ armor, while Medics can heal and dish out heavy damage with a shotgun from close-range. Most free-to-play first-person shooters focus exclusively on competitive multiplayer, but Warface also features a cooperative mode that rewards you for completing missions and playing well as a team. This mode has a tutorial for newer players to learn the classes. If you do decide to face off against other players online, you’ll be able do so in traditional kill-based and objective-based modes, and a battle royale mode was added in an update in late 2017. Powered by Crytek’s CryEngine, it’s one of the most attractive free-to-play games around, yet its are modest. Download now from: ‘Unreal Tournament’ (Windows) Epic Games’ is the biggest game in the world right now, but the studio is still working on other games, and the rebooted Unreal Tournament is among them. Free to play on PC, it’s currently in development and can be played in early access, with Epic even so you can quickly get access to the latest builds and see how the fast-paced multiplayer shooter is being changed.
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