![]() It’s hard not to feel stung when the poster child of free-to-play MMOs, Runescape, finally chooses a platform with which to migrate from the personal computing space after 20 years, and instead of at last acknowledging the impassioned pleas of the console, it succumbs to the temptatious draw of the mobile. What’s that, you ask? What is the game’s setting actually about? Come on, surely that doesn’t matter – It’s an MMO(A)RPG! Think less story, think more endless grinds for loot, and you’ve got yourself all the answers you ever needed. Published in the west by Amazon Games, the MMOARPG (you thought it was a mouthful before someone added ‘action’ to the abbreviation) became an overnight sensation back in 2021 and quickly started encroaching on WoW’s crown thanks to its free-to-play model. In the meantime, while console players can still make do with the likes of Final Fantasy XIV, the current hotness in the MMORPG space is the more action-oriented Lost Ark. The singular reason you won’t find World of Warcraft on this list is simply that it still costs money upfront to play it – though you better believe it would be on here in a heartbeat should it ever go free-to-play. If there was a genre the PC could handily flaunt over the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, it would be the MMORPG. Perhaps the same will one day be true of Valorant also. Still, console gamers remain high in their hopes, as various competing esport shooters, like Overwatch 2 and Apex Legends, continue to update their console counterparts alongside their banner-bearing PC editions. While Riot has been quite coy with the idea of a Valorant console release in the past, there hasn’t been much movement in the time between the game’s initial release in 2020 and today. Valorant, Riot Games’ competitive 5v5 character shooter, seems like a perfect fit for consoles and yet to this very day, the game eludes our pawing, controller-holding mitts. The best free-to-play games on PC that we want for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S are: Is this metaphor suggesting that consoles inherently ruin free-to-play games with that sweet, sweet carrot? Is the carrot in this case the healthy splurge of the microtransaction purchasing console whale? Has this introduction completely lost the plot? Let’s get on with the list. ![]()
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