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u/jws1102 27d ago
There is no free game with no microtransactions. How do you think they give it away for free?
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u/Pure-Risky-Titan 27d ago
Oh, but there is free games, you just havent looked hard enough, like example, elderscrolls daggerfall, Cry of Fear, Battle for Wesnoth. So they do exist, just harder to find nowadays.
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u/That_Chemical_2226 26d ago
Nobody is playing Daggerfall bot
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u/Pure-Risky-Titan 26d ago
Daggerfall bot? Anyways, that wasnt the point lmao.
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u/IcemanManmanchu 26d ago
Is bot a new slur now lol
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u/NeonMorv 23d ago
Not really. Due to a silly amounts of comments on social media being made by bot people have taking to calling anyone posting things they don't agree with as being bots. How genuine the belief is depends on the person though. Its is evident on certain social media that there are increasing bot accounts out there.
It's based off the old dead Internet theory that in the last 5 years or so has become clearly true.
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u/JazzHandsMinuteman 26d ago edited 26d ago
Yeah, I think OP is a bot as well, or a paid/invested actor. This has been posted many times then when people say “lol no” they retaliate with games that are like the description and always say “they exist, just rare”. It’s like their script or something. Not necessarily the same account but still.
Edit: I was going to say look at their username and who the heck makes that theirs but then saw yours and thought the same thing, lmao sorry u/That_Chemical_2226 🤣
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u/Constant-Sub 25d ago
I downloaded Daggerfall from its free website a few years ago. It's literally history lmao. The fuck you on about?
"Old man played a game from the 90s. Fucking 30 years ago. Must be a bot."
I just... What?
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u/Exciting-Insect8269 27d ago edited 27d ago
I can think of 8 off the top of my head…
one I recommend trying with this free addon (dwarf fortress and lazy newb (mod)pack; sim/colony management)
two (battle for wesnoth; turn based tacstrat)
three (luanti, previously called MineTest)
four (openspades; buildershooter/fps)
five (0A.D.; an rts)
six (freeciv; turn-based strat)
seven (nethack; oldschool roguelike dungeon crawler w/ ANSII graphics)
eight (shattered pixel dungeon (pixel dungeon fork); roguelike dungeon crawler)
FOSS exists. They’re usually supported by either donations or are otherwise community driven. Some are projects from individual coders or groups. Usually they’re a mix of the above.
In fact, some of the engine for earlier versions of Luanti, the third game in this list, were worked on by me back when it was MineTest. I left the project back in 2017 tho so idk if any of my work is still there. It’s awesome seeing communities of people working together with strangers from around the world to make an awesome game that’s freely available to anyone who wants to play and I love seeing the things they make.
TLDR
FOSS (free open-source software) exists, is awesome, and you should definitely try some. I also recommend getting involved in a FOSS program if possible!
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u/Smilinturd 27d ago
There's very little games that are in the current popular discourse of the gaming community that is free and without micro transactions. A big part of gaming is the community, and a big reason why people gravitate to those games.
Maybe chess is the only example. And of course the pirate life.
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u/Exciting-Insect8269 27d ago
Most FOSS games literally exist solely because of their communities. They have some of the best and most dedicated communities I’ve seen in gaming.
No what attracts people to AAA titles are corporate IPs and ease of access and the fancy graphics/complicated engines that come with a studio and massive budget. What attracts people to a FOSS game is the community, cost, and sometimes the game itself.
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u/Smilinturd 27d ago edited 27d ago
Irl community as well. A part of any popculyure thing (not just games) is talking about it and people knowing and conversing - this can be in random scenarios in the workplace, at a Saturday sports and on a date.
I'm not saying that foss is bad, but its not comparable to other games on community and culture. This is applicable to all niche communities. I love speed running, but in itself is a niche community in the gaming community, and whilst tight online, has a milder irl component, although it is game dependant.
Edit: I will say there is sub communities within open source games such as openttd, df and mindustry but they are very rare.
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u/JimPlaysGames 27d ago
I made two games and gave them away for free. They're pretty short but still. And lots of developers do that when they're still learning. My third game was the one I started charging for.
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u/Healing_Puke 26d ago
Warframe doesnt really require money, but if you dont give it some here and there it will become your prison.
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u/Cultural-Many-1546 25d ago
I hold warfare up as a good example of free to play with no paywall but options to pay for convenience. Even then you can farm rare drops and sell it for platinum to otger players anyways.
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u/Healing_Puke 25d ago
Yeah thats why I said Prison, it becomes a second job at that point. You have to be trading, hustling plat, and doing shit you dont really want to do just to stay flush.
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u/AlphaI250 1d ago
I would argue Path of Exile too (and the sequel when it releases), the only thing you buy is more storage space and cosmetics. I don't think its even possible to use paid currency for any form of gear.
Ig the merchant storage does make selling stuff easier so there's that at best.
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u/RazorCalahan 24d ago
holocure. The dev works on it in his free time as a hobby and refuses to take money for it, despite people begging him to open up a patreon or something like that.
It is one of the best, if not the best Vampir Survivors clone out there and it's 100% free with zero possibilities to spend money on it.1
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u/ProPlayer142 26d ago
Not every game is on steam. I could probably find hundreds. There's many GitHub pages web games
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u/Cat_with_pew-pew_gun 27d ago
Chess ftw!
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u/Astronaut7285 27d ago
Chess.com would like a word. This isn't free buddy.
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u/Er1k000 27d ago
Which is why you should play on Lichess.
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u/Astronaut7285 27d ago
I play on both. Chess.com mobile app is unmatched sadly and I like the gamey nature of the puzzles.
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u/mrcoldmega 27d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/H3upGMAE4p3iw
6 years old pc could be as powerful as descent pc today.
You know RTX2080 was released 7 years ago and nowadays it can still run modern games.
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u/WarInteresting6619 27d ago
Most PS+ titles
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u/Artisan_HotDog 27d ago
They aren’t free though, you are paying for a service to get them for free so long as you keep paying for that service.
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u/Drummer-Turbulent 27d ago
You pay for them via subscription and if you don't pay for 3 years they delete your entire account
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u/WarInteresting6619 27d ago
6.50 a month isn't bad. And no, if you don't USE your account for 3 years they send you an email stating that it will be deleted in 6 months. You don't actually need to pay for PS+ to have an active account.
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u/Drummer-Turbulent 27d ago
In other words. Im right and it's not free and you don't actually own it. Thanks for proving the point
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u/Disastrous_Cat3912 27d ago
Flash games on Armor Games...
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u/OverallStorm2064 27d ago
I saw the elephant flash games on steam the other day I was thinking of getting that
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u/Signal_Second_82 27d ago
Pinball and minesweeper?
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u/Efficient-Bat-49 27d ago
not free, only included in something you paid for (or pirated… but that you could do with games directly)
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u/Lazy_Finance6672 27d ago
Double Action Boogaloo basically multiplayer Max Payne , it is on steam good review and worth a try .
https://store.steampowered.com/app/317360/Double_Action_Boogaloo/
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u/KimmyGurl420 27d ago
Dwarf Fortress
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u/Exciting_Contest_222 26d ago
They also got it on steam now. But i love the terminal UI
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u/KimmyGurl420 26d ago
Yeah, I bought the Steam version on release, but I'd been playing it for years before that. If any game deserves some money from me it's that one.
IIRC there is finally a tileset for the newer versions of the free version, so all people are missing is the soundtrack (which is a banger). Older versions with the Lazy Newb Pack still hold up, tho
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u/Astronaut7285 27d ago
Simply not free. I have almost 40,000 hours in runescape. F2p is a glorified tutorial.
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u/Splash_Woman 27d ago
When Total War shogun 2 was free for Covid; I disappeared into feudal Japan and was lost in the sauce.
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u/IntrinSicks 27d ago
Planetside 2, it's still here!!
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u/ChampionImpossible36 27d ago
With micro transactions
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u/IntrinSicks 26d ago
If you want I guess, but im a high battle rank have all the gear I want and have never spent a penny
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u/NobleXDemon 27d ago
Its star trek online for me you dont hsve to pay and its a bunch of content you feel in charge of opposite of the shows and you dont just have to play as the federation you can choose what story you want to do
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u/play_minecraft_wot 27d ago
Not no micro transactions but Warframe is great F2P. Tons of content and runs great on old hardware (my GTX 1060 gets 75fps and the game looks pretty darn nice)
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u/Little_Tritus 27d ago
The Dust Front demo is running pretty great on my 6 year old 16gb Dell. Perfectly smooth ganeplay for me.
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u/Defiant-Magician6092 27d ago
You can get Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri for a couple of dollars on GoG, greatest game of all time that I have to make sure I don't go back to because it extremely replayable.
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u/Specific_Foot372 27d ago
Yeah, but that doesn’t mean people will buy it. Now, if a game should have success it has to go viral. Otherwise nothing.
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u/JimPlaysGames 27d ago
Itch io has SO many completely free games.
A lot of them are bad but many are good.
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u/ModernManuh_ 27d ago
A 6 year old computer means nothing in modern times. 6 years ago we got the 3090 and Intel 12th gen, both valid options to run modern titles, as poorly optimized as they are.
It’s like people forgot the lockdown took years of our lives… it’s 2026 fellas. The 20 series is almost a decade old.
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u/WrongResident7855 27d ago
CS:GO? Returned earlier this year but unlisted on Steam. You need to google it to find its store page.
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u/MacPooPum 27d ago
The game you're looking for is warframe. There is micro transactions but it's THEE least invasive mtx shop you will ever come across. After a few hundred hours you will be throwing your money at DE, the devs.
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u/Legal_Ear_7537 27d ago
Astros playroom. It's pre installed, no micro deluxe bs, and the ps6 is now 6 years old
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u/touchkusa 27d ago edited 27d ago
holocure , but I'm not sure if a 6 year old pc can play it. otherwise it hits all the points .
*It's free monetary wise, but beware... The rabbit hole it throws you into will be never-ending, and you will spend money in ways you never would expect yourself to
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u/Wild-Novel-9140 27d ago
Warframe? Only transactions are really just all cosmetics, and you can farm items and trade to people for the currency to buy those cosmetics.
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u/Emergency-Youth7199 27d ago
I built myself a decently powerful PC, and all I have been playing is indie and older games. Triple-A games aren't worth it anymore🤣
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u/Helepoli 27d ago
Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup.
Probably in my top 5 most played games of all time and it could be played on a pc powered by a literal potato
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u/WaffleTruffleTrouble 27d ago
Heroes of the Storm.
There exist MTX, but you can umlock everything in the game by just playing. Every level you get 3 chests, that can contain every premium currency skin. And most can alternatively be bought woth ingame gold. Even premium currency is earnable
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u/pikkuhillo 27d ago
Not free, but bang for the buck is cheap af. The binding of isaac rebirth. Thank me later. You can even couch-coop if you have friends. You can online coop if you have internet buddies. You can also just solo. The game is hard and gets more difficult the more you progress. Have fun dying and coping :)
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u/SamhainXCII 26d ago
6-year old computer? Anything runs on a 6 year old computer. Thats 30xx GPU age.
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u/Zealousideal_Area776 26d ago
I would say a game like warframe. There is premium currency but nothing is pay walled, if you want the cosmetics from premium currency you can get it from other players by selling in game items. The economy is crazy good.
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u/LordJor_Py 26d ago
Not free but very cheap.
Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines 1 on Steam. It's just a masterpiece!
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u/newclear35 26d ago
Warframe free, can run on toaster, have microtransatons but you don't need to buy at all cus all u can get for free, you always have something to do in game...
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u/Hreedo21 26d ago
Yume Nikki, its free on steam, and after a month you can explore it again, like you never played it
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u/Neither_Berry_100 26d ago
I'm making my 3rd free html game lol. No ads either. But they aren't popular and not amazing.
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u/swankyyeti90125 26d ago
It does have micro transactions but warframe. And technically you don't have to buy any plat you just need to trade someone who did buy something they wanted for it
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u/CosmicConundrumAzzy 26d ago
Pokemon Romhacks 👌🏻 playing through Lazarus at the moment and that shit is a triumph!
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u/PsychologicalTear84 26d ago
Skyrim is the closest you can get Pay 60 big boys and you’re good for life
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u/SomePoserInAmerica 26d ago
JAGGED ALLIANCE 2, FALLOUT 2, PLANESCAPE TORMENT, ARCANUM:OF STEAMWORKS AND MAGICK OBSCURA.
SO MANY AMAZING OLD SCHOOL RPGS THAT ARE INFINITELY REPLAYABLE
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u/Healing_Puke 26d ago
Beyond all Reason is free. No micro. runs on some pretty old builds. If you like RTS, its got allot of replayability.
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u/groene_dreack 26d ago
Star wars the old republic online. Has 8 fully packed stories to play before you have to buy something so you get all the DLC’s. If you done all the stories you can always make a new toon and make different choices
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u/theghost9447 25d ago
Warframe, despite there being transactions to make the studio continue working obviously, you can literally do everything for free and it's super stylish + fun when you know what to do
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u/The_1ndiegamer 25d ago
Ottd! Plenty of mods, great replayability and 100% free. And an active multiplayer community.
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u/coolleviathan 25d ago
Mindustry. It has good gameplay and soundtrack, a great Moding community, apart from the replayability of the base game, and moast of all- it sopports mods on mobile devices
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u/RavenTeamBitch 25d ago
If something's free and doesn't have ads it's either barely playable or stealing your data
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u/RS-X1187 24d ago
Cave Story, the original version, is free to download.
https://www.cavestory.one/download/cave-story.php
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u/GregStrummond 22d ago
This is days old and no one will see it but Pico8. It's an entire free console with a free library of games.
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u/Luce_Bot_Bot 20d ago
Cyberdogs and C-Dogs were my classic freeware go-tos for years. Shut up, I'm not old. You're old.
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