Free Multiplayer Games
Free multiplayer games to play with friends, so nobody in the group has to pay to get in.
- games
- 41
- split screen
- 5
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- 21
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Top 41 free multiplayer games
Counter-Strike 2
One team tries to plant a bomb and the other has to stop them or defuse it, in rounds where the dead don't respawn. Money earned each round buys the weapons for the next one.
2–10 onlineFree
Dota 2
Each player controls one hero who levels up and buys items during the match, and the team pushes down three lanes to destroy the enemy base. Every hero is unlocked from the start.
2–10 onlineFree
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
Attackers storm a building to defuse a bomb or rescue a hostage while defenders fortify it with barricades and traps. Each operator has a unique gadget, and many walls and floors can be breached.
2–10 onlineCrossplayFree
Team Fortress 2
Two teams fight to capture control points, push a bomb cart or steal the other side's briefcase. There are nine classes with different weapons and jobs, and you can switch class mid-match.
2–24 onlineFree
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
Up to a hundred players parachute onto an island, search buildings for weapons and gear, and fight as the safe zone shrinks until one team is left. Bullets drop over distance.
2–4 onlineCrossplayFree
Apex Legends
Squads drop onto a shrinking map, scavenge weapons and fight until one is left. Each character has unique abilities, and eliminated teammates can come back if someone carries their banner to a respawn beacon.
2–3 onlineCrossplayFree
Destiny 2
As Guardians with elemental powers, you shoot through alien factions in missions, dungeons and raids to earn better weapons and armor. Raids require the team to solve coordinated mechanics on top of the shooting.
2–12 onlineCrossplayFree
War Thunder
Battles over capture zones are fought in tanks, planes, helicopters and warships from the 1930s to today. Damage is modeled per part, so one shot can knock out the engine or a crew member.
2–32 onlineCrossplayFree
Marvel Rivals
Teams of Marvel heroes and villains fight to capture points or escort a payload. Certain character pairings unlock team-up abilities, and parts of the map can be destroyed.
2–12 onlineCrossplayFree
Warframe
You control warriors called warframes, each with its own abilities, in short missions against enemy factions across the solar system. The parts you earn are used to build new warframes and weapons.
2–4 onlineCrossplayFree
Unturned
Surviving the zombie outbreak means looting towns and military bases for food and weapons, crafting tools and building a base. You can face only zombies on your own server or join PvP servers.
2–24 onlineFree
Brawlhalla
Each of you picks a fighter and wins by knocking rivals off the screen, and they fly farther the more damage they've taken. Weapons drop onto the stage, and each character uses two weapon types.
2–8 online · 4 on one screenCrossplayFree
Overwatch
Two teams of heroes with unique abilities fight over objectives like escorting a payload, capturing points or pushing a robot. Heroes are split into tank, damage and support, and you can switch during the match.
2–12 onlineCrossplayFree
THE FINALS
Teams compete in a virtual game show to grab cash from vaults and carry it to a cashout station they then have to defend. Almost every building can be destroyed.
2–12 onlineCrossplayFree
Path of Exile
You kill hordes of monsters for gear through a ten-act campaign and then through increasingly difficult endgame maps. Skills are gems socketed into your gear, and the passive tree has over a thousand nodes.
2–6 onlineFree
Halo Infinite
Shielded Spartan supersoldiers fight in two teams in modes like Slayer and Capture the Flag. Weapons and gear like the grappling hook spawn on the map, and Forge lets you build maps.
2–24 online · 4 on one screenCrossplayFree
Paladins
Teams of fantasy champions fight to capture a point and then push a payload to the enemy base. Before the match you build a card loadout that modifies your champion's abilities.
2–10 onlineCrossplayFree
Pokémon Unite
Each of you controls one Pokémon that evolves during the match, defeating wild Pokémon to collect energy and scoring it in the enemy goals. The team with more points when time runs out wins.
2–10 onlineFree
Fortnite
You drop from a flying bus onto an island, find weapons and fight until one team is left, building walls and ramps for cover. It also includes LEGO Fortnite, Fortnite Festival and player-made islands.
2–16 online · 2 on one screenCrossplayFree
VALORANT
One team tries to plant a bomb called the Spike while the other tries to stop or defuse it. Each player picks an agent with unique abilities and buys weapons before each round.
2–10 onlineCrossplayFree
League of Legends
Two teams of champions with unique abilities push down three lanes guarded by turrets to destroy the Nexus, the enemy base. During the match you level up and buy items with the gold you earn.
2–10 onlineFree
Teamfight Tactics
You buy champions from a shop each round and place them on a board, where they fight automatically against another player's team. Three copies merge into a stronger one, and the last player standing wins.
2–8 onlineFree
Hearthstone
Duels are turn-based, fought with thirty-card decks featuring Warcraft characters, and you spend mana on minions and spells until the opponent's health runs out. In Battlegrounds you recruit minions that fight on their own.
2–8 onlineFree
StarCraft II
Commanding Terran, Zerg or Protoss, you harvest minerals and gas, build a base and an army, and destroy the enemy base. In Co-op you pick commanders with their own units for missions against the AI.
2–8 onlineFree
Rocket League
Soccer is played with cars that jump, boost and fly to knock a giant ball into the other team's goal. The arena is enclosed and cars can drive up the walls and ceiling.
2–8 online · 4 on one screenCrossplayFree
Fall Guys
Dozens of players control little characters that run, jump and grab through rounds of obstacle races, survival and team games. Each round eliminates part of the field until someone wins the final.
2–4 onlineCrossplayFree
Genshin Impact
You explore Teyvat with a party of characters earned by playing or through random pulls, combining elements like fire and ice. With others you explore and fight bosses but can't advance the story.
2–4 onlineCrossplayFree
Muck
On a randomly generated island, you gather wood and ore by day to craft tools and weapons, and face stronger enemies every night. Chests give stackable power-ups.
2–8 onlineFree
Once Human
In a post-apocalyptic world overrun by mutated creatures, you survive by shooting, gathering resources and building a base. You capture Deviations, creatures that fight alongside you or work at the base.
2–4 onlineCrossplayFree
SCP: Secret Laboratory
After a containment breach in an underground facility, each player is randomly assigned a side: SCP creatures, Class-D personnel, scientists or guards. Humans hunt for keycards to escape while the SCPs try to kill them.
2–40 onlineFree
theHunter: Call of the Wild
Across open nature reserves, you hunt deer, bears, birds and other animals by following tracks and calls. Animals detect noise, your silhouette and scent carried on the wind, and each kill is scored.
2–8 onlineFree
Delta Force
It has two modes: Warfare, large battles over sectors with tanks and helicopters, and Operations, where you enter a map to grab loot and must extract alive. Each operator has their own abilities and gadgets.
2–4 onlineCrossplayFree
Where Winds Meet
In 10th-century China, you play swordsmen who explore an open world and fight with martial arts and weapons like swords, spears and fans. The online mode adds dungeons, bosses and duels.
2–5 onlineCrossplayFree
STAR WARS: The Old Republic
Thousands of years before the Star Wars films, you create a Jedi, a Sith or another of eight classes. Each class has its own story, with voiced dialogue and light or dark side choices.
2–16 onlineFree
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT
Up to 60 players drop onto an island and fight with swords, bows and hero abilities until one team remains. Melee runs on attacks, parries and counters, and everyone gets around with a grappling hook.
2–3 onlineCrossplayFree
RuneScape
In the medieval world of Gielinor, you create a character and level dozens of skills such as mining, fishing, magic or combat, alongside quests. There are no classes, so one character can learn everything.
2–5 onlineFree
Guild Wars 2
Tyria is a fantasy world where you create a character and explore maps with events open to anyone nearby. Your level scales to each zone, so you can play together at different levels.
2–5 onlineFree
Old School RuneScape
This is the 2007 version of RuneScape, still updated with content voted on by players. You create a character, level skills like mining, fishing or combat, complete quests and fight bosses and raids.
2–8 onlineFree
Goose Goose Duck
Geese do tasks around the map while ducks hidden among them kill and sabotage, and in meetings everyone votes on who to eject. Dozens of roles have their own abilities, and some win alone.
2–16 onlineFree
Eternal Return
Each of you picks a character with their own skills and roams Lumia Island gathering materials to craft gear while fighting wild animals and rival teams. The last team alive wins.
2–18 onlineFree
TrackMania Nations Forever
Races are against the clock on stadium tracks full of jumps, loops and ramps, chasing the best time. Other players' cars don't collide with yours, and it comes with a track editor.
2–64 online · 8 on one screenFree
Best on one screen
- 1Brawlhalla2–8 online
- 2Halo Infinite2–24 online
- 3Fortnite2–16 online
- 4Rocket League2–8 online
- 5TrackMania Nations Forever2–64 online
Best with crossplay
- 1Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege2–10 online
- 2PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS2–4 online
- 3Apex Legends2–3 online
- 4Destiny 22–12 online
- 5War Thunder2–32 online
Best for 6+ players
- 1Counter-Strike 22–10 online
- 2Dota 22–10 online
- 3Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege2–10 online
- 4Team Fortress 22–24 online
- 5Destiny 22–12 online
About these free multiplayer games
Shooters take the biggest share of the list, followed by MOBAs, strategy games and MMOs, and free to play here means you can download and play without paying even if the game sells items inside.
41 games are on this list. Of these, 21 have crossplay (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege ranks highest among them), and all of them are free to play. You can play 5 of them on one screen, and Brawlhalla is the highest ranked of those. The most common online cap is 8 players, in 8 games, and 29 games fit 8 players or more.
Frequently asked questions
What are the best free multiplayer games?
Going by player reviews, the top five are Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Team Fortress 2 and PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS.
How many players can play these games together?
The most common cap is 8 players online, in 8 of the 41 games. For bigger groups, 29 of them fit 8 or more, like Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2 and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege.
Do these games have crossplay?
21 of the 41 do, and the most common combination is PC + PS5 + Xbox Series, with 7 games.
Can we play any of them on one screen?
Yes, 5 have split screen or shared-screen play, like Brawlhalla, Halo Infinite and Fortnite, and 9 of the 41 work with a single copy for the whole group.
How do we choose what to play as a group?
Send the group a free CoopGames poll. Each person takes about 30 seconds to answer, anonymously, and the app drops every game that someone can't play on their platform or that doesn't fit your group size. You vote on what's left, and the app looks for a time when you can all play.
Let your group vote on what to play
Send the group a poll link. Each person answers in 30 seconds, and you vote only among the games all of you can play.








































