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Raid: Shadow Legends
★ Our favorite

Raid: Shadow Legends

Raid: Shadow Legends is the fantasy gacha RPG that escaped its own ads and became the internet's loudest roster chase. It is a free-to-play, turn-based collection game set in Teleria, where Shards summon Champions, squads get tuned like machines, and the roster past 1,000 heroes keeps handing you new problems to solve. If you love team-building, PvP scheming, and the delicious chaos of your next pull, there is plenty here, with a gacha grind and eager shop offers attached.

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The best free PC & browser games our team has played and ranked.

Heroes of History

Heroes of History

Heroes of History lets you raise a Stone Age settlement into an empire, then send a gloriously mismatched roster of historical and mythological heavyweights into real-time battles. If city layouts, hero collecting, PvP, and Nikola Tesla sharing a roster with William Wallace make your brain fizz, this free-to-play strategy mash-up has your name on it.

Browser Android iOS

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Sea of Conquest

Sea of Conquest

Sea of Conquest turns the familiar free-to-play base-building grind into a pirate power trip, letting you steer across the Devil’s Sea, customize your ship and cabins, assemble a fleet, and scrap with NPCs or rival captains. If you fancy open-world sailing, PvP plotting, and upgrades ticking away while your next conquest brews, climb aboard.

Windows Android iOS

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Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact is the free-to-play anime open-world RPG where Teyvat’s gorgeous horizons lead to elemental, character-swapping combat and that dangerously tempting next pull. The gacha grind is the bit to know going in, but if you love exploration, fantasy stories, and building a four-person dream team, this is one huge adventure worth opening the map for.

Android iOS Windows

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Honkai: Star Rail

Honkai: Star Rail

Honkai: Star Rail puts HoYoverse’s character-collecting spectacle aboard a sci-fi space train, with turn-based battles and swappable parties of four. If anime drama, tactical team-building, and plotting your next gacha pull sound like your kind of cosmic trouble, grab a ticket.

Windows Android iOS

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Hero Wars

Hero Wars

Hero Wars is the fantasy squad-builder hiding behind those infamous puzzle ads: collect and level dozens of heroes, tune your lineup, then send them into idle campaign fights, PvP arenas, and guild battles. The puzzles are only a side dish, but if hero collecting and clever team chemistry make your thumbs twitch, Dominion is ready to swallow your lunch break.

Browser Android iOS

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Wuthering Waves
3.5

Wuthering Waves

320 Votes

Wuthering Waves takes the familiar anime open-world gacha formula and gives it sharper teeth: flashy, fast-paced combat, enticing exploration, and a post-apocalyptic mystery built around the amnesiac Rover. The story can get exposition-heavy, but if you want your next pull to fight like an action hero rather than a spreadsheet, this is your playground.

Windows macOS

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Merge Gardens
4.3

Merge Gardens

1,092 Votes

Merge Gardens turns Daisy’s inherited, overgrown estate into a three-way obsession: merge objects, crack match-3 boards, and unravel the mystery of her missing uncle. If cozy restoration with a magical-garden twist scratches your “one more merge” itch, this free-to-play charmer could happily eat your tea break.

Browser Desktop

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Sunrise Village
4.6

Sunrise Village

612 Votes

Sunrise Village sends you to Grandpa’s troubled town to rebuild farms, help the locals, and hunt six magical crystals through a colorful countryside mystery. If cozy chores, crafting, and exploration are your jam, this free-to-play adventure has plenty to harvest, provided you can roll with its occasionally stingy energy bar.

iOS Android

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Nikke
4.4

Nikke

562 Votes

Goddess of Victory: Nikke is the anime gacha where eye-catching heroines and cover-based gunplay grab your attention, then a surprisingly deep sci-fi story and quick character-switching keep your squad marching. If you like collecting characters, tuning teams, and gambling your hopes on one more pull, this free RPG shooter has your number.

Windows Android

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Stormshot
4.1

Stormshot

637 Votes

Stormshot hooks you with ricochet shooting puzzles against treasure-guarding ghosts, then swings open into a free-to-play strategy MMO packed with upgrades, alliances, exploration, and PvP. If you enjoy quick aiming challenges between bouts of island-building, and can handle eager spending offers, Treasure Isle has your next delightfully busy obsession.

Windows Android

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Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming
4.0

Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming

1,206 Votes

The Iron Throne is up for grabs, and Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming lets you build a Westerosi stronghold, recruit familiar characters, raise an army, and scrap with rival lords for famous castles. If you fancy Game of Thrones with city-building, MMO alliances, and real-time PvP, your browser or Windows PC just became dangerously tempting.

Browser Windows

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Taonga Island
4.1

Taonga Island

1,490 Votes

Taonga: the Island Farm hands you a tropical inheritance and promptly fills it with crops, animals, workshops, hidden treasure, and mystery-packed expeditions. It is a cozy browser farming adventure for players who can turn careful energy and storage management into one more harvest, one more quest, and, naturally, one more island detour.

Browser Android

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Rush Royale
4.1

Rush Royale

671 Votes

Rush Royale turns tower defense into a 3×5 pressure cooker, where merging duplicate cards can reshape your board and every monster you crush in PvP becomes your opponent’s problem. If you fancy quick strategy, collectible decks, and co-op castle defense with a pinch of chaos, your next obsession may be waiting at the gates.

Desktop Windows

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Star Trek Fleet Command
4.1

Star Trek Fleet Command

1,276 Votes

Star Trek Fleet Command turns the big Trek daydream, your starbase, your fleet, your favorite officers, your alliance drama, into a free-to-play MMO where exploration, upgrades, faction pulls, co-op, and PvP all keep jostling for the captain’s chair. If you want a long-haul strategy game with Kirk, Spock, Nero, Discovery, The Next Generation, Lower Decks, and plenty of “one more upgrade” scheming, this is your next command post.

Desktop Windows

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