If you want to play great video games, without paying, you don't need to invent unethical piracy tricks, you just have to search in the right sites. Unless you really want to play the latest video game released in stores the day before yesterday, often you just have to wait a few months to have the opportunity to download some free games on offer or to find some new high-level free games. On this page we see the best sites where to download free PC games, without paying a penny, without having to use any credit card.
1) EA Origin is the new online store (also in Italian) of Electronic Arts video games, perhaps the most important production company on the digital games market. Usually it allows you to get a free game at maturity, offered, that is, for download only for a few days. To download the games offered for free, you only need to register for an Origin account without downloading any download clients.
2) The "Free to Play" section of Steam is very large and includes some completely free games and others that instead hide encouragement to buy in-game .
Steam is the most important online store where you can download video games for PC. For each game, however, you can read user comments so it is easy to find out if there are cheats or if it is actually a good deal. To download the games you need to register for Steam and download the Steam management client, very good and virus-free.
In another article we talked about games on Steam such as Team Fortress 2 and based on HalfLife, beautiful and valid as a console game.
3) The Windows Store is the place to look for free games for Windows 10, with lots of titles all to download and try.
4) Itch.io hosts over 100, 000 free games ranging from role-playing games to puzzle games.
5) Good Old Games (GOG) offers some excellent quality free games, not as old as you might think.
6) My Abandonware is the treasure trove of old video games (mainly for PC) that have been "abandoned" by their developers and therefore become free and free to download.
The site offers a myriad of instantly recognizable titles, from first person shooters like "Doom", to real-time strategy games like "WarCraft II". With over 14, 000 titles from 1978 to 2017, you will surely find titles to play all the way through.
7) Moddb is a great site that offers the download of the best indie games from independent developers, including modifications or mods from the most popular games.
8) Wikipedia and its large list of games that have become free. If you want to have a very broad overview of all the free games that can be downloaded from the internet, you can look at the general list of Wikipedia which lists all the commercial games that have become free.
9) GameJolt is a site where you can download many indie games, free or paid.
10) IndieDB is yet another site where free games for download and play on PC are published.
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10) Other smaller sites but full of games to download for free for PC are:
- Acid Play
- AllGamesAtoZ
- Megagames
- caiman.us
- freepcgamers
- reloaded
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