Best Free to Play Games on Steam
Games you can start without upfront purchase, often supported by optional spending.
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1Team Fortress 2 - Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats!
Oct 10, 2007
In this game, you can…
- join a match that turns into a ceasefire where both teams build sentries, drain their ammo to make them click, then stack into towers on top.
- watch the objective get stolen and then join a conga line that marches across the map until both teams are partying in the goal room.
- blast-jump yourself across the map with rockets to reach rooftops, flank fights, and escape danger.
- switch between nine totally different classes with roles that change how you move, fight, and support your team.
- go invisible as a spy, sneak behind the enemy line, and take people out up close before vanishing again.
- play a co-op mode where you team up to survive wave after wave of attacking robots.
- get headshot while you're doing a taunt because a sniper is calmly posted on a distant tower.
- walk into a live round and end up playing rock-paper-scissors with an enemy instead of fighting.
2Unturned - Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.
Jul 7, 2017
In this game, you can…
- arrest other players with handcuffs and blindfolds instead of killing them, then stage prisoner captures on roleplay servers.
- find a tank, stock ammo for it, and use it to raid other players' bases.
- pose as a killed player, talk your way into their squad, ride in their truck, then shoot the front seats and take everything.
- build a silenced, scoped marksman gun from junk parts, including duct-tape optics and a campfire-made muffler.
- shoot out of vehicles, cram friends into a truck, and do drive-bys as a rolling squad platform.
- fortify rooftops and hillside bases with barricades and traps, or even build on a vehicle to make a moving fortress.
- recruit a beach full of kids into your crew, make yourself the leader, and roll up on bases as a growing mob.
- explore huge maps for hidden bunkers, military zones, and radioactive deadzones, then hop into custom workshop maps built for totally different modes.
3SCP: Secret Laboratory - Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
Dec 29, 2017
In this game, you can…
- die, then spectate as a monster uses your own recorded screams to lure other players into the same trap.
- play a wall-walking monster that kidnaps people into a pocket dimension where they must pick doors before they bleed out.
- touch-kill players as a plague doctor, then resurrect the people you killed so your victims come back as your team.
- sit in an elevator with an enemy, play music, and die together when the nuke goes off.
- upgrade your keycard, get swept into a nine-soldier escort squad, loop the facility lost, and still get wiped by the armed warhead.
- take hostages at gunpoint and run a "Family Guy Trivia" game where wrong answers get you shot.
- trigger a chain of chaos by leaving a blast door open, watch two monsters pour in, then get "adopted" by the statue and escorted to an endgame keycard.
- arm the nuke, weave through an infected horde you helped create, and sprint for the exit as the countdown hits zero.
4Doki Doki Literature Club! - The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Oct 6, 2017
In this game, you can…
- have a character break the fourth wall and address you like she knows you're at the computer.
- check the game's files for secrets as part of what the story is asking you to do.
- watch the story pretend to restart, then keep changing as it reveals it wasn't actually over.
- write poems by picking single words, each choice steering the poem toward a specific girl.
- pursue a childhood-friend romance, confess your love, and have the route end with her suicide.
- see dialogue and visuals degrade into corrupted-looking text as the game starts to fall apart.
- replay to shift who you spend time with and which poem words you pick, and uncover different storylines.
5Muck - Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.
Jun 5, 2021
In this game, you can…
- get chased across the island by a giant golem, scramble to craft a bow mid-pursuit, then have more golems spawn until you're fighting two, then five, plus their minions.
- play a versus mode where the world border shrinks, forcing survivors into an inevitable endgame showdown.
- build towering bases into the sky until the world starts failing to load correctly.
- survive nightly sieges as enemies pour out of the dark and keep coming until you're dead or the sun rises.
- crack open chests for random powerups that stack into absurd speed, double-jumps, damage, and knockback.
- race the short day-night cycle by sprinting for resources all day, then hunkering down as each night spawns tougher waves.
- have a teammate accidentally summon a night boss and turn a normal run into a full group emergency.
- trigger an altar, instantly spawn aggressive golems, and watch exploration flip into a fight you didn't plan for.
- stack enough upgrades to become effectively unkillable for dozens of days, turning early desperation into a late-game power trip.
6Crab Game - Crab Game is a First-Person Multiplayer game where you play through several different minigames based on children's games, until only one player stands victorious.
Oct 29, 2021
In this game, you can…
- hand your friend a stick in the lobby and watch them explode immediately.
- bait someone into hiding with you on a bed, wait until the last 15 seconds, then betray them with a coordinated gun-and-katana ambush.
- get launched to your death because someone barely taps you at full speed from behind.
- pick playground-style rounds like Red Light/Green Light, Floor Is Lava, and King of the Hill, then watch one shove instantly turn it lethal.
- duel on a hilltop with sticks, trade hits at the edge, knock one attacker into the water, then 180 and send the next one flying.
- survive rounds by doing almost nothing, standing perfectly still while everyone else flings each other off the map.
- form a four-person alliance, then have all four of you immediately push each other off a cliff anyway.
- learn movement tricks and momentum hits that let you tag people and send them flying across the map.
7Splitgate - Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
May 24, 2019
In this game, you can…
- play a mode where you only score by teabagging enemies after you kill them.
- fall into a floor portal, keep your momentum, and slingshot across the map into the enemy team for point-blank shotgun kills.
- set a portal on a safe side of the map and snipe through it, picking people off from an angle they can't see coming.
- portal behind someone mid-rush, kill them in the back, and watch them step into the portal thinking they're chasing you.
- open and close portals on the fly, then throw an EMP grenade to erase enemy portals and cut off their escape routes.
- stack custom modifiers like big heads, low gravity, and unlimited ammo to turn a match into a completely different game.
- run a custom lobby with friends as 5 humans vs 5 hard bots with 1-second respawns, turning every fight into nonstop chaos.
8Supermarket Together - The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
Aug 9, 2024
In this game, you can…
- use a fire extinguisher to blast people across the floor and launch them into the supermarket.
- chase shoplifters down the street with a broom, beat them up, and make them drop what they stole.
- expand the supermarket enough to stock up to 49,000 products on shelves, forcing real choices about space and storage.
- spawn in with friends and start broom-fighting everyone outside before the store even opens.
- set up anti-theft gates and CCTV, spot thieves in the act, then run them down and stop them from escaping.
- run the store as a co-op assembly line where one person cashiers, one restocks, one cleans, and one hunts thieves.
- watch the shop go from empty shelves to a packed operation where everything sells out fast and you sprint to restock before it collapses.
- set ridiculous prices for basic groceries and still have customers sometimes buy them anyway.
9Rec Room - Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Party up with friends from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of player-created rooms, or build something new and amazing to share with us all.
Sep 2, 2021
In this game, you can…
- land on an island scenario, befriend someone, get a gun, overthrow a government, and then get betrayed when the uprising turns on you.
- start a ping-pong session with a stranger, hear someone yell for dodgeball, and watch five people instantly reorganize into a 3-on-3 match.
- pick up wildly different weapons in one arena fight, like bow and arrow, sword and shield, or a crossbow.
- physically act out gestures in VR so your avatar mirrors you one-to-one.
- step out of a 40-second tutorial into a locker-room hub and get immediately surrounded by waving strangers.
- try to sneak in paintball, say your plan out loud, and get called out by someone who can hear you.
- finish a paintball match by capturing the flag, scoring a sneaky kill, and then getting unlockables afterward.
- hang out in a public lobby where people film each other with an in-game video camera while everyone tosses bottles and frisbees around.
10Everlasting Summer - Visual novel loved by many – Everlasting Summer – now on Steam!
Nov 19, 2014
In this game, you can…
- fall asleep on a snowy night bus and wake up in a Soviet summer camp as a younger teenager.
- clear all six main character good endings to trigger a new character appearing at the mine and pushing the central mystery further.
- piece together clues from multiple routes until the overarching story turns into reality-bending psychological sci-fi revelations.
- live through a summer camp that treats your sudden de-aging like it's completely normal, even rooming you with the camp director.
- follow a prank into a disused mine and bunker, uncovering an underground mystery thread that keeps resurfacing across routes.
- finish a good ending and unlock an extra route that swings the whole story into horror-comedy territory.
- replay the same days and get completely different late-game events depending on which route you're on, like uncovering secret versions of the summer.
- play a poker-inspired card game as a side activity with real strategy instead of just dialogue choices.
