Recently, the free games market has made a huge leap. For users, of course, it is very attractive to play with friends in a cool toy on the network for free. For developers, which is also logical, the free-to-play model also brings great profits through paid upgrades and advertising contracts. Today we want to offer for review the top 10 free games on the incentive, in our opinion.
Top 10 best free games on Steam.
10. GTA San Paro
San Paro - the continuation of the cult arcade from the company Rockstar Games, released for different gaming platforms. This time the action takes place in a certain city of San Paro, which is famous for its criminal authority. The game is constantly redistributing power for areas of the city between the bandits and representatives of the law - the local police. You choose one of the opposing camps.
If you play on the side of peace officers, then, naturally, you perform the functions of policemen, namely, you are trying to clear the city of criminals. At your disposal a huge amount of weapons and equipment.
If you are in a good mood, then you can choose the side of the bandits. In this case, in the list of your assignments robberies of banks and shops, explosions of buildings and stealing of steep wheelbarrows. It is logical that while you will actively interfere with the police.
9. Gotham City Impostors
When the game first entered the market, and that was in 2012, it was necessary to pay about 400 rubles for Gotham City Impostors. Now the developers have taken into account the shortcomings and offered a free version. At its core, Gotham City Impostors is something between Call of Duty and Team Fortress 2. Like GTA San Paro, you have to choose the side for which you will fight: for Batman or for the Joker.
This game will definitely not let you be bored, because from the very beginning you will plunge into a thrilling action game with a sound series and cool special effects. The gameplay is as good as everything else. In addition, the game has the ability to creative: you can choose the hero set of gadgets and make it look either super cool or completely ridiculous.
Standing arcade, which is made very high quality, however, nevertheless, underestimated among the community.
8. Tactical Intervention
This toy combines the principles of Counter Strike and Point Blank. The point is to carry out tasks such as mining objects and evacuating hostages. The hero you will play for has different abilities that improve as you play. Donate option available for the necessary update, which, frankly, very few people used in reality. With the server base here, too, everything is not so hot - on the Russian server in Tactical Intervention almost do not play.
Nevertheless, there is one very cool feature that allows Tactical Intervention to get to the eighth place in our list of the top 10 free games on the incentive - this is the original gameplay. In the "VIP-person escort" mode you fly at breakneck speed, fleeing from the chase and shooting back from the bandits. It looks all very cool and unusual.
7. TrackMania Nations Forever
TrackMania Nations Forever is racing with single player mode and multiplayer. The peculiarity of the game is that you drive on children's typewriters, which seem to have emerged from carefree sunny days from the distant past. Moreover, high speeds and non-standard gameplay will help to alleviate boredom. Light and unobtrusive toy is recommended for everyone from young to old.
6. Alien Swarm
The game resembles a fantastic disaster movie. You try on the role of a survivor after the attack of an alien character, who, together with a group of other people, is trying to escape by swimming on the ship far away from the crash site. The game supports single player mode and multiplayer mode, however, the maximum for a collective game is four people. For users developed eight different characters and a huge number of all kinds of weapons.
In the process of passing you have to carry out missions and escape from the evil aliens, for which the characters accrue experience and rewards.
5. No More Room in Hell
The plot of the game plunges us into a post-apocalyptic world inspired by the works of George Romero. Your role - playing for one of the survivors of a deadly epidemic, to find salvation for yourself, for a whole group of people, and maybe for all of humanity. The war against countless zombies that infect all living things ... What could be better?
In the wake of the popularity of the post-apocalyptic theme with zombies, the game immediately after the release broke into the top of the most popular on the Steam platform and for good reason takes the 5th place in the ranking of the best free games.
4. Team Fortress 2
Fun toy from the cult developer Valve, which offers you to get acquainted with the realities of virtual life. During the game you will be in contact with such categories of people as Gopnik, trolls, young schoolchildren, Internet scammers and other unreliable representatives of society.
Although the gameplay has long been outdated and looks ridiculous in a bad way, Team Fortress 2 is supported by good humor and is very popular, which does not fall over time.
3. DOTA 2
DOTA 2 is one of the most popular cybersports platforms and a leader in prize amounts in cyberspace. So, even at the first world championship in DOTA 2, which was won by the Kiev organization Natus Vinccere, the guys raised a check of one million dollars over their heads. Every year the fees of professional doters grow, and at the future TI7 World Championships the prize fund will be several tens of millions of dollars.
To be successful in DOTA2, you need to combine the qualities of a wise strategist, have good motor skills for a quick response to what is happening on the map and high stress tolerance.
Needless to say, for an ordinary user, it is not necessarily serious about the game, but the gameplay itself implies a teamwork designed to destroy the opponent's throne. If you do not perform the functions required by the team, you will surely listen to a lot of tricks and accusations.
2. Warframe
A cool toy that combines the best of Mass Effect and other popular games. The gameplay captures from the very first launch of the game. Here you really have where to roam: a huge selection of characters (ninjas, snipers, miners) with different skills (jumping, shooting) and a set of weapons from hammers to super-secret nano-suits. All this is seasoned with excellent graphic design.
This is the case when it’s better to see once than to hear a hundred times. A worthy representative of the game industry, which rightfully occupies the 2nd place in the "Best Free Games on Steam" ranking.
1. War Thunder
Wargaming's developer products, such as the World of Tanks and Word of Warplanes advertised arcade simulators, look like fun for schoolchildren compared to War Thunder. War Thunder is really ahead of its competitors, offering well-developed graphics and fine-tuned gameplay. There are no hit points in this game - everything is like in the real world, in a real war.
During the game, be prepared for the fact that at the controls of the aircraft you may fall off the tail section if the enemy hits or one of the crew members loses consciousness, and the weapon fails at the crucial moment. The game transmits the full range of sensations and plunges you into the thick of the battles of the Second World War.
Honestly, in War Thunder it is even difficult to find flaws - everything is done at a very high level: graphics, sound, control, plot, and similarity with reality can’t be stuck.
Conclusion
Steam platform offers a lot of opportunities to have fun in the company of friends, hacking into your favorite toy. What is important is the ability to play absolutely free. Some games have won such frenzied popularity in the world that they were granted the status of cult and forced to reconsider the views on virtual games of many governments.
So, in some countries, eSports is already recognized as the official professional sport. Choose a game to your liking and maybe your favorite game will become not only a way to have fun, but also bring you world-wide fame of e-sportsman along with a lot of money.