2017 has been an outstanding year for games, during the next few weeks, we'll tell you what we thought were the best games released this year. We'll be counting down our best 10 games for the year ...

so we've split the best free games on PC into specific genres to make the process easier. We've also taken care to only spotlight the free-to-play games that rely on a battle pass or paid extras ...

If you’re looking for the most open platform that is also consistently ahead of consoles when it comes to cutting edge tech, the best PC games deliver the finest virtual experiences money can buy.