FORTNITE: Surely everyone knows Fortnite by now as this battle royale keeps the genre relevant. Shoot, loot, and build your way to victory in a competitive multiplayer deathmatch. Skins, dances, emotes and Back Blings lead to endless ways to customize your character between each round. Outside of the traditional battle royale deathmatch, you have fun playlist options like Marvel Super Power Knockout, Rat race-style face-offs and so much more.
WARFRAME: The futuristic shooter suits you up as a robot ninja who sits inside a Warframe where each class has its own attacks and abilities. Play with friends in story mode or PvP combat across an entire solar system of worlds to explore. Warframe gets new characters, spaceships, open-world planets, quests, and weapons in this frequently-updated game. The game is similar to Density, where it combines MMO and Shooter gameplay aspects. Warframe has a heavy focus on hack and slash action and of course, includes PVP modes.
ROCKET LEAGUE: Football on wheels powered by rockets, welcome to Rocket League. Having recently gone free to play, now everyone can enjoy this high-octane sport's game where teams duke it out to score goals in a 3D football match. Drive up the wall, nitro boost off it, and soar through the air, all in an effort to block an incoming goal. Football has never been so exciting.
GENSHIN IMPACT: Anime lovers should look away because this is about to become your next addiction! Genshin Impact has taken the MMO world by its wallet because though the game is free to play you can't help but spend your money on this game's hero card system. To unlock more characters, you have to open packs of items that can contain a new hero. You can seamlessly switch between your heroes mid-combat to unleash deadly magical attacks. Explore a massive open world, collect material, and craft new weapons. Genshin Impact borrows heavily from Zelda: Breath of the Wild with its open-world combat and adventuring.
DESTINY 2: Destiny 2 is a space shooter MMO that heavily focuses on FPS combat with many MMO elements like raids, PVP, and classes. Team up with friends and take on dangerous enemies in non-stop action missions. Gear-up and deck out your character in cool weapons, armors in an ever-expanding arsenal. There are various competitive PVP modes to put your skills to the test if the co-op story mode is not a thing.
SPELLBREAK: Fire, ice, earth, poison, and wind are all the elements at your command in Spellbreak. A magical battle royale where you can literally fly, teleport, and turn invisible as you hunt down your equally powerful mage adversaries. Play solo, duo, or in squads of three in this winner take all third-person spell-slinging BR.
APEX LEGENDS: With a focus on squad-based combat over solo play, Apex doubles down on the class-based shooter system, think Overwatch or Valorant, but a battle royale style. A tank, a support, and a dps, a classic formula but in a shooter royale set in the future. Playing with friends in this game is important so you can coordinate a balanced squad.
ROGUE COMPANY: Rogue Company is a free-to-play multiplayer, tactical, third-person shooter where you fight over objectives on different maps. Unlike CS:GO, Valorant, or Black Ops Cold War, Rogue Company is in the third person making it a little bit easier to aim.
DAUNTLESS: If you like Monster World hunter and are looking for a simpler free to play version of it then Dauntless is your choice. The game is simple, pick a weapon, put on some armor, and go hunt a monster. Once you kill it harvest the monster for material go back to town and upgrade your gear, repeat. Dauntless also lets you play with friends to form a small monster-killing squad to take on the game's endless list of boss monsters.
WARZONE: Warzone is an extremely popular battle royale game within the Call of Duty franchise, and there is a small chance you have not heard of this game or CoD in the very least. A first-person shooter with guns, grenades, ATVs, helicopters, and sniper rifles where soldiers fight across a single shrinking battlefield until only one person or squad survives. If you like FPS games and Battle Royales, this is your game.
PS5 has over 20 free games at launch and if you sign up for PS Plus you can download free games every month. However, there are a lot of third-party games that are completely free to play. Today we look at some of the most popular free-to-play games on the PS5. They share one common thing they are all multiplayer games that are played online with friends, but solo is still possible. Let's dive into the list.
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