Gaming > Consoles & PCs The Best Free PC Games to Download in 2023 An alphabetical list of free PC games with links to download By Michael Klappenbach Michael Klappenbach Writer DePaul University Former Lifewire writer Michael Klappenbach is an IT professional and an expert on games and gaming equipment. lifewire's editorial guidelines Updated on January 12, 2023 Reviewed by Jessica Kormos Reviewed by Jessica Kormos Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Jessica Kormos is a writer and editor with 15 years' experience writing articles, copy, and UX content for Tecca.com, Rosenfeld Media, and many others. lifewire's editorial guidelines Tweet Share Email Tweet Share Email Consoles & PCs Xbox Buyer's Guide Gaming is hugely popular, and free gaming even more so. Below is a list of our picks of some of the best free PC games to download right now. Some of them are even portable, which means you can put them on a flash drive and play them anywhere. These titles include older and popular commercial games that have been released as freeware, home-brew remakes of popular games and games released by independent developers. They're identified by their genres, such as first-person shooter, real-time strategy, role-playing, simulation, and platform games. These are free PC games to download. You have to save the game files to your computer and install them before they're usable. These are not the same as free online games that can be played in your web browser. Before Downloading These Games Remember that each of these free pc game downloads only works when installed on your PC. This poses a risk when compared to online games because it's possible the game files might contain malware. Take caution when downloading these files. Know how to scan your computer for viruses should the need arise, and always keep your computer updated with the most recent security patches. If you download a free game that won't open when you double-click it, chances are you need to extract the game out of the archive since some of them come in a RAR or ZIP file. ZIP files can usually be opened no problem but RARs and other non-ZIP archives require a file unzip program like 7-Zip. Several of these PC game free download pages have multiple "Download" buttons but only one of them is actually valid; the others are most likely advertisements or links to other websites. If any links take you elsewhere without downloading the game, return to the download link below and try a different button. A Abuse First-person Shooter Alien Breed Obliteration First-person Shooter Airstrike 3D Flight Simulator Alien Swarm Top-down Shooter America's Army 2.5: Assist First-person Shooter America's Army 3 First-person Shooter Armagetron Simulation AssaultCube First-person Shooter Ata: Extracts From The American Civil War Strategy B Babylon 5: I've Found Her Simulation Beneath A Steel Sky Action/Adventure Bio Menace Platform Blip and Blop Arcade Bounty Hunter SX Arcade BZFLag First-person Shooter C C-Evo Strategy Cave Story Platform CaveShip Arcade Cellfactor: Revolution First-person Shooter CodeRED Battle For Earth First-person Shooter Command & Conquer Strategy Command & Conquer: Red Alert Strategy Corridors of Power First-person Shooter D Dark Wars Platform Dark War II Platform Dink Smallwood Role-playing Diver Down Role-playing Doom 95 First-person Shooter DroneSwarm Arcade E Eternal Daughter Platform Eternum Platform F Fantom Subdivision A Action Formido Strategy G Gate 88 Strategy Gene Rally Driving/Racing God of Thunder Platform Grand Theft Auto Action/Adventure H Halloween 1.0 Action Halo Zero Platform Hell Fighter Simulation Hidden and Dangerous Deluxe First-person Shooter Highway Pursuit Arcade I I of the Enemy: Ril'Cerat Strategy Icy Tower Platform Island Wars! Arcade Island Wars 2 Arcade J Jetpack Joyride Action Jetz Fusion Arcade Jetz Rampage 2 Arcade Jetz Rampage 4: Revenge Arcade K Kings Quest I: Quest for the Crown Action/Adventure, Point-and-Click Kings Quest 2 Action/Adventure, Point-and-Click Kings Quest 3 Action/Adventure, Point-and-Click L Little Fighter 2 Night Action Lord Monarch Strategy M Machines of Destruction Action Mad Bomber Arcade Magebane 2 Role-playing Mario Forever Galaxy Arcade N Neo Sonic Godspeed Arcade NetStorm: Islands at War Simulation Notrium Adventure NTE - Strike and Retrieve Strategy O Ocular Ink Action Operation Spacehog Arcade Out of Order Action/Adventure, Point-and-Click P/Q Pac-Man 3D Arcade Pekka Kana 2 Platform Pirate Isles Strategy PRBoom First-person Shooter Prince of Persia 4D Adventure Psi-Ops The Mindgate Conspiracy Third-person Shooter ezQuake First-person Shooter R Return of Egypt Adventure Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory First-person Shooter Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War Strategy S Savage: The Battle For Newerth Strategy, First-person Shooter Shadow Armada Strategy ShadowFlare Role-playing Shaolin Soldier Action Sideswipe Arcade Spelunky Platform Spy Hunter Driving/Racing Star Defender 4 Action Star Wars The Battle of Endor Simulation Star Wars The Battle of Yavin Simulation Starscape Arcade Steel Panthers Main Battle Tank Strategy Steel Panthers World at War Strategy Stick Soldiers Action Street Fighter 2 Action Super Mario: Mario Forever Arcade Super Mario Epic 2: Dream Machine Arcade Super Mario Pac Arcade Super Mario vs nWO World Tour Arcade Super Mario War Arcade Super Mario XP Arcade T Tango Strike Arcade TerraFire Action The Black Heart Fighting The Elder Scrolls Arena Role-playing The Spirit Engine Role-playing U UFO 2000 Simulation Universal Combat Simulation W Wild Metal Country Arcade Worm Wars 3 Arcade X X Bomber Top-down Shooter X Operations First-person Shooter Z / 0-9 Zelda Classic Arcade 3D Desert Run Simulation Was this page helpful? 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