A lot of things have changed since we’ve updated our free games for Android phones and PCs list. Now that we are entering a full lockdown (FMCO) once again in Malaysia, doubtless you’ll

 

 have plenty of time on your hands which is where these fantastic free games for your phone come into play.

We’ve curated and gone through these games to ensure they are all worthy additions to your gaming library and to also ensure that they aren’t ad-filler malarkey.

Some of them have microtransactions built-in for those who want to speed up their gaming experience but they’re mostly optional. Without further ado, here’s the updated Hitech Century free games for Android phones and PCs games list – FMCO edition!

 

Want free games? We got you sorted – here’s the free games list for Android phones and PC!

We’ve gone through all of them, tossed out quite a few duds and have the calluses, busted keyboards (and phones) to show for it but what you get is some of the best free PC and Android phone games out there that money can’t (sorta) buy. Well, you can and get better bonuses too but you get the gist of it.

Ranging from old time classics that have become freeware to the latest games that are going temporarily for the low price of nought with all manner of genres, there’s likely something for everyone in our definitive Hitech Century free game list.

How to download these free games for PC and Android phones

Each title has a shortcut link straight to the game downloader or the page where you can download it. Just click on the title link of each game to go straight to the official downloader.

For Android games you’ll have to sign in to the Google Play store while for others, you may need a Steam account, which is free to download to gain access to it. Still, to get something for nothing is still worth the trouble.

Bear in mind that some of these free games may have monetisation mechanics like gacha pulls or having to fork out extra for downloadable content but if you’re fairly persistent, you can tough your way through.

In terms of gaming phones, you can check out the ASUS ROG Phone 3 and the updated, top of the line ROG Phone 5 that has been built from the ground up to tackle mobile gaming like a boss as well as the Lenovo Legion Duel.

Gaming laptops come in a variety of sizes and price points but you can check out the ASUS ROG TUF Gaming A15 as an excellent bargain laptop for gaming.

We’ll be updating this feature regularly with new free games as we come across them so bookmark this page and stay tuned for updates!

Free Game List For PC

StarCraft Classic
Genre: RTS

The grand old daddy of RTS games has finally become free to play. It has the original game with multiplayer built in and the Brood Wars expansion pack too but is limited to the old-gen textures rather than the remastered 4K version. Still, this version runs fantastically well on netbooks and legacy PCs too. It’s also available on a Mac here.

Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty

Genre: RTS

You get to play the entirety of the single player Terran campaign for free though the subsequent Protoss and Zerg campaigns require you to purchase them. Still, there’s already plenty on offer. You also get a smattering of multiplayer and a few free co-op commanders thrown in on the house.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare: Warzone

Genre: Battle Royale

If you can say the title of the game in one breath you’re a badass. They’ve thrown in the best bit about the game – the Battle Royale survival mode which pits 150 angry blokes in a narrowing circle where only 1 team walks out alive for free. Expect chaos, mayhem and fun to ensue in this top-shelf FPS. Regular season updates, guns you can grind for and a regular serving of new game modes make this an exciting game to dive into but be prepared as the file sizes for this game are approaching insane sizes bordering on 170GB and up. 

Team Fortress 2

Genre: FPS multiplayer

The multiplayer classic is a bit long in the tooth but it’s absolutely free. You have two opposing teams – Red and Blue – that…ah it’s all sanctimonious waffle really. All you have to be concerned about is killing the other team with a variety of classes. Still a classic.

Hearthstone

Genre: Collectible card game

The free-to-play collectible card game is easy to learn, amusing to play and has quite deep mechanics though it’s something best kept casual as you have to fork out dosh…a lot of extra dosh if you want to get more randomly drawn card packs to augment your deck. Well worth a whirl or two.

Spelunky

Genre: Platformer

This platformer has you exploring a series of randomly generated caves to get as much loot as possible. It’s a variant of a roguelike and is as much an exercise of skill as it is patience.

Dwarf Fortress

Genre: Roguelike

Incredibly deep, amazingly rewarding and also frustratingly random, Dwarf Dungeon is a roguelike that is epic in scope and detail as you have to manage a colony of dwarves in almost every way from what they mine, how they expand their empire and fending off all manner of hostile flora and fauna in a randomly generated world. Surprisingly, it’s still a free game and constantly updated too though ardent fans contribute generously to the creator.

Mechwarrior Online

Genre: Simulation

Giant stompy robot warrior sim where you strap up in a Battlemech and go shoot the heck out of other enemy mechs as a Mechwarrior for one of the Great Houses of the Inner Sphere, as a Mercenary or as one of the Invading Clans. Easy to get into but getting better and more powerful mechs, and the docking bays to store them in will need you to fork out extra cash.

Star Wars: The Old Republic

Genre: RPG

Set in a time way way before the events of the Clone Wars and a heck of a long time before Kylo Ren single handedly made a mess of things, this rich online free-to-play RPG is made by the maestros at Bioware so you’re sure of getting a deep, rich and memorable storyline. You play as a Light or Dark side character, get a posse of colourful sidekicks and then save the galaxy.

Apex Legends

Genre: Battle royale

Another battle royale game with a colour ensemble of characters and a vibrant art style, Apex Legends has a unique playstyle of its own with each playable character hosting special abilities that can change the field of battle.

An effective team needs a combination of these skills to succeed which is where the appeal of the game lies as you team up with others to survive to the end of the match.

DOTA 2

Genre: MOBA

Tactically deep and also perennially popular among the younger set, Defender of the Ancients is a free game that has dozens of usable characters, items and tactics that you can pit in a  5 vs 5 to take out the other side’s headquarters. The challenge is doing so past entrenched defenses, enemy spawn and angry opposing team.

Warframe

Genre Online Shooter

A constantly updated, deeply engrossing and mostly free game, Warframe has seen multiple free expansions and has almost 7 years of content to experience and plough through. In a far distant future, you play as one of the Tenno, an ancient warrior caste using advanced powered Warframes.

It’s a mix of many genres, including an open world ARPG, a shooter and more with complex but extremely rewarding gameplay. Well worth a whirl.

EVE Online

Genre Space MMORPG

The titular sandbox online space sim has thousands of players all playing on a single server and has years of player-driven plots that are byzantine in scope with massive space battles that can involve hundreds if not thousands of capital ships in battle.

There’s dozens of ships to acquire and upgrade including massive behemoths that cost thousands of dollars in real world cash.

There’s a mostly free aspect to the game but if you want to get up to the beefy parts, you’ll have to earn enough in-game cash or pay a subscription fee but there’s still more than enough content for you to experience before you decide to go all in.

 

Fortnite

Genre Battle Royale

One of the most popular battle royale games of all time features much of the mechanics that the genre is known for but adding in the unique ability to construct fortifications and buildings on the go which up-ends the traditional gameplay mechanics. There’s regular updates, seasonal content aplenty and rewarding gameplay.

Path of Exile

Genre Isometric hack-and-loot

If you’ve played Diablo before you’ll be intimately familiar with how the game mechanics work in this free take on the hack-and-loot genre. You generally sashimi your way through a horde of mooks, loot them for loot and giggles, pick out the best loot for yourself and then sell the rest to fund your personal xenocidal campaign. Rinse and repeat.

It sounds simple on paper but remains very very engrossing. To play with and the regular updates and expansion packs help keep it fresh and entertaining even today.

 

Shadow Warrior Classic Complete
First-person shooter

This irreverent first person shooter from the creators of Duke Nukem 3D harkens back to simpler times with you as the eponymous Shadow Warrior Lo Wang in a hack-fest that features an equally gore-strewn, pun-laden experience as the Duke himself.

You get to swing around katanas, empty quad barrel shotguns and beat enemies to death with your bare fists which does lead to rather interesting shenanigans in this late 90’s example of game design. This free game from GoG is DRM free and gives you the original campaign plus two expansion packs dubbed Wanton Destruction and Twin Dragon. 

Genshin Impact
Third-person ARPG

This sprawling free-to-play, online-only action RPG combines gacha elements with a gorgeous, beautifully realised sandbox game world that is absolutely massive, promising weeks if not months to explore along with a deep party-based system that combines character swapping and a rock-paper-scissors take on using elemental powers.

The voice acting, music and gameplay are exquisite, making it the match of any pay-to-play AAA game. The PC version allows you to use a mouse and keyboard and cross saves with Android devices so you can hop back and forth.

 

Beneath A Steel Sky
Point-and-click adventure

One of the earlier takes on the Cyberpunk genre, Beneath a Steel Sky has you on a point-and-click adventure set in an overpopulated, dystopian city in the distant future as one Robert Foster. Stuck in a hostile city, he has only one friend, a robot in the form of a circuit board that he can slot into various other robot shells that he encounters along the way. A true classic with a deep story that’s now absolutely free on GOG.

Free Game List For Android Phones

 

Hitman Sniper
Genre: Shooter

This game has you as the eponymous Agent 47 but rather than walking around as a one-man silent harbinger of doom, you’re instead issued a sniper rifle and then tasked with a variety of different tasks to accomplish on the map, all of which inevitably end in a bad guy getting a high caliber bullet in the noggin. There’s plenty of ways of getting about it though as you can trigger environmental hazards to create accidents with experimentation contributing to most of the hilarity onscreen.

Call of Duty Mobile
Genre: First person shooter

The eponymous pseudo-modern first person shooter has made it to the mobile. There’s no single player campaign but you get a rich, fully featured multiplayer mode, a battle royale mode and a zombie survival mode though the last one seems to be temporarily on hiatus. Most of the guns are free but the rarer and better character skins and guns need you to chunk out some cash. Still, it’s a very playable F2P.

Arknights
Genre: Strategy

Insidiously engrossing tower defence meets gacha game, Arknights has you plonking inordinately attractive female special forces operators that you have to collect from random draws onto successively more challenging levels to stem hordes of incoming attackers. It’s not easy and you’ll often gnash your teeth in frustration but it’s still fun without being unfair.

Asphalt 9: Legends

Genre: Racing

Do you feel the need for speed? Do you have a burning need to tear the pavement  in a sports car at insane speeds while driving in a sufficiently terrifying manner that would leave you gran’ white knuckled in absolute terror? Then you’ll love this particular racing game. It’s fast, shiny and rewards fast reflexes.

 

Clash Royale

Genre: Strategy

Clash Royale’s main strength is its simplicity – you can play the game entirely one-handed which comes in handy when you’re on the commute and games are short, taking just 5 or so minutes to finish so it doesn’t take up too much of your time.

There’s a collectible card element to upgrade your units, which you’ll have to judiciously allocate to attack either of two lanes to take out the other side but there’s quite a few tactics and unit combinations. Plus, if you’re patient and decently skilled, it’s very playable without having to pay a single cent.

Warhammer 40,000: Freeblade

Genre: On-the-rails Shooter

It’s a bit hard to peg Warhammer 40,000 : Freeblade but it combines elements of a loot-and-shoot with an on-the-rails shooter. You play as a pilot of a Knight, a bipedal war machine in the grim darkness that is the Warhammer 40,000 universe on a path to payback.

The game does give you a feeling of power by pitting hordes of hapless infantry and dinky little vehicles for you to lay waste to but it’s when you face enemy war machines your size that the stakes are real.

It’s a freemium and you can theoretically grind your way to glory but it’s one steep, grindy climb. There’s also multiplayer but that’s very hit-and-miss and more on what gear you have versus your skill or lack thereof.

Gangstar Vegas

Genre: Sandbox

Built on the lines of Saints Row and Grand Theft Auto, Gangstar Vegas turned into a freemium game a couple of years back but the core mechanics are still grindable. You start off as an ex-boxer who got double crossed and who is now out for payback.

This involves the usual amount of Fed-Ex quests and car chases around a modestly sized map of a fictional Las Vegas including a facsimile of the Strip and Fremont street. The core game mechanics are solid but the racing portions are borderline unfair. Still worth a whirl or two since it’s free.

Fallout shelter

Genre: Management

At this point in time, it’s a game reflecting reality as you have to manage the life of a number of Vault Dwellers who live in a post-apocalyptic bunker. You have to train them up, expand their humble hole in the ground with new facilities, send expeditions out into the wasteland to get more tech and get more personnel the old fashioned way or by hiring visitors.

That and fending off marauding bandits and the odd mutant roach or two. Surprisingly entertaining without you having to chunk out a cent.

Among Us

Genre: Party Game

No compilation of free games is complete without adding in this insidiously entertaining multiplayer whodunit where you have to deduce who is a murderous imposter in a crew of cute crewmen in Teletubby like space suits.

Among is is one of the few free games on Android that is popular enough to actually add the word ‘Sus’ as an addition to the current English lexicon. Fun, free and entertaining.

 

Gameloft Classics: 20 Years

Genre: Retro game compilation

Gameloft’s gift to gamers for their 20th anniversary is an interesting collection of free games from the feature phone era. This compilation pack contains over two dozen vintage games across a range of genres from match three games and puzzlers all the way to shooters.

The games are rather quaint in this day and age with somewhat kludgy controls and low resolution graphics but it’s a fun and free walk down memory lane.

Genshin Impact -Android
Third-person ARPG

This beautifully crafted online-only RPG game is free and available on PC, iOS and even the PS4 too. It plays marvelously well on mobile though the bigger the display you have and the beefier the hardware, the better it will look and run.

A massive game world, beautiful art direction with fantastic music and gameplay easily make it the gold standard for free-to-play RPGs. You can optionally chunk out real cash for gacha elements to acquire better characters and gear but the game is fairly generous with freebies too.

Cross saves are available when you play on PC and it’s still very playable as a free game, more so the fact that it’s constantly updated with new content.

Cats Atelier

Match 3 Game

Equal parts whimsical, engrossing and vexing, Cats Atelier is a beautifully illustrated match 3 puzzle game much in the fashion of the infamous Candy Crush game of yore save that you play as a lovable sentient cat called Vicent Van Meowogh who has to sell his paintings and to do so he has to – you guessed it – solve match 3 puzzles.

The music is pleasantly soothing and you can while away several hours solving puzzles though later levels rely as much on randomly luck as they do on skill.

Stranger Things: The Game

Adventure Game

While it’s originally intended as a marketing tool for Netflix to push Stranger Things, this game top-down retro adventure game is surprisingly full featured with a design approach somewhat akin to a late 80’s Nintendo RPG. This is further embellished with the deliberately pixelated low-res art and chip tunes which makes it all the more endearing. Well worth a whirl seeing as it’s free.

UNO!

Card game

We aren’t able to go out but that doesn’t mean you can’t get that ubiquitous standby of awkward social outings out and ready to play. This mobile version of UNO! is free to play in its classic version or you can implement house rules.

You can play with friends or family, tackle the competition in 2v2 with all the traditional mechanics including reversals and the like. Fun!

 

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