Exploring Free Games You Never Played

[@nqgames2954]

I played Enlisted and didn't realize the first 3 games were against bots. I was getting over 100 kills just chilling. then the 4th game happened. Explosions everywhere, tigers rolling down the streets, pain.

[@qpqp342]

Real 😔

[@conservativedemocracyenjoyer]

Welcome to Gaijin :)

[@bobertmcgonagueeue5077]

Wait so after 3 games you face real players?

[@qpqp342]

@bobertmcgonagueeue5077 yep, like 2-4 games

[@bran1886]

I remember blowing up 9 tanks with a Piat in one match, it was so fun but also a lot of pain lol.

[@skye_music]

The merge for Enlisted means that you can't choose the battlefield and there will be a tech tree like in War Thunder + they will bring a tier system so you will play with people that have similiar weapons tiers as you for balance. The first games you play in that game is with bots but after a few games you will play with sweatlords

[@histhoryk2648]

I rather buy Easy Red 2, it doesn't have grind, has map editor and there's no MTX's

[@jimfoster3575]

@@histhoryk2648 you have a point but you know enlisted is just free sooo... i been playing for a while and i hate the balance and the grind is kinda just a pay to win game rn. but you can have fun with the basic stuff and it easily runs on anything

[@skye_music]

​@@jimfoster3575 The game in general is Pay to progress not Pay to win. The only difference are premium squads which are cool looking but often worse than regular weapons. They are a money trap. In the balance department it is more a brain game when you have the low level stuff but the more you play the better stuff you unlock of course.

[@jimfoster3575]

@@skye_music I disagree, there op AF machine guns and classes that take ages to unlock and are a great advantage. The weapons let you know people down. Tanks and planes are worse. Tanks are op so even a fully upgraded basic one can't pen it + you get 1 shot. And the planes just bomb the hell out of the map and god knows when I can reach that. I have played for a while and it takes ages for progress

[@SaltSpirits]

@@jimfoster3575neither of you have heard of Operation Harsh Doorstop and it shows.

[@Piiotreq]

0:10 TF2 1:53 Enlisted 4:20 Silhouette 4:50 X-moon 5:30 Hired Ops 7:15 Zombie Panic! Source 9:57 Caliber

[@cornmonk9212]

hey, you should try rouge glitch and synthetic arena. they are hella great

[@SurelyNotClover]

TF2 should not be in this video but Enlisted is arguable

[@ОбычныйЧеловек-д3ж]

interesting that most of these games i played next time can you make video about point blank, crossfire, sudden attack, counter-strike: online, warface (maybe?), alien swarm? I think it would be interesting to see upd: about truy kich too

[@FrostBeam009]

only decent here is Caliber and its super heavy grind.

[@tonnyhuy2869]

​@@ОбычныйЧеловек-д3жvietnamese player ??

[@Rusu300]

I played Enlisted for quite a bit, and I can tell you that the game starts off with easier lobbies in order to get people to play more. After like 5 or so matches, thats when you get to the real deal, where AI just one shot you if you are outside cover for more than half a milisec lol, it is still genuinely a good and nice experience. And that's when your AI is also starting to put up some numbers, I remember some AI rifleman from my squad racking up like 8 kills in a single life, because of how well he was positioned.

[@ViLeHih]

but still they walking around like a bot

[@Rusu300]

@@ViLeHih oh yeah of course, its just that they are a bit better

[@ViLeHih]

@@Rusu300 better at moving around tactically or at aimbotting?

[@Rusu300]

@@ViLeHih oh sorry, better at aimboting forgot to mention lol, but I believe you can make them move around and tell them where they can stay and stuff, which is useful

[@ViLeHih]

@@Rusu300 thanks for the info man

[@jango5794]

Hired Ops was formerly known as "Contract Wars" and it was web based, I remember that it was full of players back then it was fun and looking like realistic shooter it was ahead of its time, but now when it became Hired Ops it was like another generic fps with much more microtransactions (Becoming heavily P2W was the start of the downfall of Contract Wars before becoming Hired Ops). Fun Fact: The Devs of the "Escape from Tarkov" was also the devs of Contract Wars back then they just part ways with the devs of "Hired Ops". Making both games a sequel of "Contract Wars" (That's why when you look at the old gameplays of Contract Wars you'll see the similarities of Escape from Tarkov)

[@GangstaPichu]

To add to the Fun Fact, even after the Devs left it was a sister company of Tarkov. They still communicated and such since the main owner of Tarkov was a head leader over at that company. Just stepped out to do his own thing. To be honest, the vibe I got he was like a co-owner or something of that company. That's why they still keep in touch. I don't know where it's at now with things, but I know that was the case.

[@GoRideLP]

i still remember playing contract wars back in 2014 on my browser on kongregate.. my favourite map being that lake map where everyone just camped everyone.. the kac pdw was menacing tbh

[@mohamadamirul3060]

​@@GoRideLP Brought back old memories

[@GundAme412]

@GoRideLP i played CW on facebook games, along with dead trigger 2 and ballistic ops (which was transfered to steam as "ballistic overkill" and became a dead game since) ... good old days ...

[@blueberrypimp8460]

Contract wars was really fun game, I miss playing it on Facebook in 2017

[@RogueBeatsARG]

Enlisted has a only real players mode and its filled with people that dont wanna fight bots

[@adikhoja1384]

I just want to say how much I love this video. Unlike other youtubers who give lists and dont really explain the game and if so its really vague and brief and you're not able to get anything out of it. Not only do you go in depth but you also take time and effort to explain everything about the game.

[@lucid5183]

Enlisted is actually an amazing game. I started playing it when it came out. Great decision.

[@PistaZOV]

same, shame they'll mess up the whole point of the game with the merge, if I can't choose where I want to play and have to leave 9/10 matches I get connected to, then why play at all?

[@AZEOforreal]

For Enlisted for most matches, each team has a certain amount of respawn soldiers. You have to take as many points as you can, and which ever team captures all the points first or kills all of the enemy team wins. It’s very fun.

[@missheepious]

I loved enlisted, but the longer you play and the farther you level up the more you start to realize the bugs and issues

[@youtubeuser9090]

It’s free🤷‍♂️ it’s by far the most fun free game I’ve played

[@shrimpfry8657]

boy why your tf2 so saturated

[@the_bomb.]

Nvidia probably

[@Epic-ft2bg]

The scout is literally orange holy shit

[@VinnyUnion]

​@@the_bomb.That cheat tool

[@FingyDingy243]

Exactly

[@the_bomb.]

@@VinnyUnion cheat what?

[@Nebula-wu7qr]

Enlisted is one of my primary games. I mostly play Allies on Normandy (because I'm a WW2 nerd who really likes studying the allies in the European Theater.) While the AI can be... lacking sometimes, a lot of their use comes out of the "y" key, which allows you to swap between the different squad members. This isn't important at first, until you have squad members with different abilities, such as snipers for long range, assaulters for close range, engineers to build things, and so on and so forth. I highly recommend it.

[@David_Quinn_Photography]

Hired Ops is formerly Contract Wars and the BSG team were the devs of that game when it was a buy to play.

[@m4rsianer]

The best HL2 mod is Zombie Master. It came out 6 months earlier than Zombie Panic. You can play as master in top down view and spawn creatures in. Place traps. Turn lights off. Start explosions. You are basically a game director for players which have to complete missions the level. Finding fuel cans for generators. Find a blowtorch to manual torching steel doors. It is the best zombie game in my list, even before left 4 dead.

[@madiskruusmann302]

I've played Enlisted a lot and it's an amazing game. I love it to bits.

[@osmacar5331]

It's shit

[@Idkwhattoput151]

@@osmacar5331how?

[@osmacar5331]

@@Idkwhattoput151 the fact you are asking that says all i need to know about you and your addictions.

[@shikonp2438]

@@osmacar5331 says the one who deleted their comment 💀

[@osmacar5331]

@@shikonp2438 it's still there you mong

[@fugisek]

i freaking love your voice man, it feels kinda calming with the Minecraft music in the behind, i love it, big up.

[@SomeOrdinaryJanitor]

War Thunder/Enlisted player here! the first like 3-4 matches you play are entirely bot lobbies because Gaijin makes games with a billion different controls and features, but i'll give em credit where it is due, they add an INSANE level of depth and functionality that you literally cannot get anywhere else outside of pure simulators, and this is very much so the case with war thunder. say what you will about Gaijin as a developer, but they pay so much attention to detail, it's borderline excruciating at times.

[@Dregomz02]

And with Enlisted you can see some really obscure weapons that are rarely seen in WW2 games if ever.

[@peakdinosaurthe508th9]

Enlisted is a great game. At first you get dumb ai with rifles, but as you progress you get smarter Ai with a range of weapons, which began to make the game feel more and more realistic as you now have a diverse squad with its own strength's and weaknesses. And also there are vehicles which is cool depending on the map your playing.

[@nesyboi9421]

I played Enlisted a while ago when it first became open to the public and it was a lot more difficult than what you had, probably because when it first became public there was an actual large amount of players playing the game. I do think what you were in were beginner lobbies though, considering another game gaijin developed, war thunder, does the same thing.

[@M3PH11]

no it's becasue gaijin screw with the matchmaking to entice you into playing consistanly then bait and switch to a grind fest with bad rewards so you feel like you have to buy a premium account and some premium squads and vehicles.

[@someonegameing]

As a person who plays a lot of enlisted I can tell you that the more you play the worse it gets not the game but the difficulty wait until you get some phosphorus grenades

[@xboneava]

As someone who played tons of free fps during the 2007-2012 era when the Korean games were coming into American market check out these- soldier front 2, sudden attack, combat arms, alliance of valiant arms, blackout. Idk if they are still active but this will be a great series for ur channel.

[@tashkent561]

Ahhh, I remember playing a lot of Combat Arms, Sudden Attack and Alliance of Valiant Arms back in 2013-2014. Loved them so much. Experiences that can't be replaced, that specific genre of game was wonderful. Sadly most of them all shut down, so no, they're not played anymore.

[@sofiyums]

Seeing the Nerd3 video in the short Silhouette section almost made me cry from nostalgia. He was such a pioneer for British variety gaming youtubers and he was also a huge part of my teenage years.

[@toecurlersupreme]

havent heard that name in AGES

[@Zaczac111]

Man, Zombie Panic Source brings me back. Loved hurriedly trying to barricade rooms to block the infected on survive maps and then having to beat tactical retreats on escape maps. Favorite spot was the bathroom with a couch wedged in the hallway to prevent the zombies from getting to you.

[@andrejrozmaring]

I'm surprised games like Galaxy Life (a relaunch of a nostalgic Facebook game) or Unturned (a Rust x GTA x Minecraft combo love child) weren't mentioned. The chosen ones definitelly stand out and I'm glad you're bringing attention to free, playable and actually fun games. Have you thought of making a part two perhaps?

[@MrBrix01]

He's made part 2 and 3 i believe

[@kiritsakis1]

I was one of those lucky guys who had the honor of buying tf2, the same week it became free 😂 There should be a steam badge just for that 😂 Just saying.

[@plund8928]

You got a hat at least

[@catgaeming2025]

@@plund8928 still better than the crap cs:go players got

[@ThaHound115]

The fact that I've died to the same players as you while streaming on Enlisted is hilarious 😂.

[@gibbygarage2928]

I’ve played enlisted since late 2021, since then the game has improved 10 fold, if you haven’t played within the last 4 months it’s worth a revisit.

[@Bamboodium]

Would like to see you playing enlisted The grind is crazy hard, The AI is braindead, but it's still fun. It's the kind of game where i hop in, shoot, hop off.

[@justsomesaltyboi8716]

i remember playing ZPS back in 2009 as i was looking to play a good burner game before i played No More Room In Hell. I honestly miss those days to be honest. I even remember the old days of when minecraft was a free game to download as a .zip file! To this day i feel a bit of sadness when looking back and seeing myself having so much fun in these free to play games that i have forgotten some of the people ive met that may very well not be alive anymore, and thinking on that, you play the minecraft default theme? man, you really did hit me in the feels.

[@JUICECAT187]

I used to play the living shit out of Zombie Panic! Source like in 2008-2010. So many good memories from that game 🥰

[@Deadleaf01]

the thing about enlisted is that when you first start you will get new players your rank and skill but as time goes on the bots get slightly more advanced and you get in bigger lobbies with more player

[@jojomaster7675]

Until you're fighting maxxed out sweatlords and can¨t even get to the battlefield because of all the explosion spam

[@kamdensteiner5151]

Enlisted has to be my favorite free game of all time. Mostly because It's kind of like a free version of battlefield

[@loadofhoopla]

the new maps and addition of a community made gamemode into and actual one is pretty nice, the maps are fairly well made and all have the classic tf2 silliness and charm to them all, overall the update is pretty good and very enjoyable

[@Cau_stix]

You should talk about blockade 3d. I remember in the early 2010’s playing that game with my friends after school. So nostalgic.

[@victorwallec2534]

as a tf2 veteran ... this update is okay. Its great dont get me wrong, but the community expected more. If this updated never happend, Tf2 would still be at the same state in my opinion. Its still the best game out there xD

[@jamesabestos2800]

Still waiting for the heavy update

[@SurelyNotClover]

I jumped into free games myself and I found some interesting ones too. • Open Mod • Retail Royal •Lost Light (Have not played them, but soon will)

[@r3dsnow757]

Totally Accurate Battlegrounds

[@Pierrekira]

Nice list! Im surprised Planetside 2 not in the list !

[@MrXaniss]

Agreed!

[@yourlocaldoomer]

I love enlisted! It's like cod multiplayer but you are a commander of squads and its historically accurate

[@nastaselalexandru7947]

The problem with Hired Ops, is that this game is launched from even 2018 as a paid game and a predecessor of Contract wars. The problem with this game is mostly the COVID and what happens in Ukraine, the Dev team for this game and also Tarkov well they are from Russia soo they have the worst luck ever. Fist Covid made the devs make the game free, then the war came and they got racked by the sanctions. A similar this is facing another game called Save the Earth (basically plague inc with more positive and fun outcomes). Mostly from what I found online most Russian devs have the same problems money aren't coming in and the profits you are making are send to war bullshit even if you want or not soo most Russian games are on hold till the war is ending

[@hevytheghost5233]

Love the choice of music Rye ;D. You hit me with some nostalgia, and i really thank you for that.

[@MightBLucky]

always a pleasure to watch a true fellow gamer. keep up the good work♥

[@charredleaves1464]

Enlisted is one of my favorite games to play, there was a time when planes could damage teammates when they did bombing runs. Obviously this meant I had to bully my friends who were new to it…

[@CanadianPenguin_]

Shatterline is a really good free game on Steam with the main thing being PVP but has some fun coop PVE modes

[@thetechcorner7204]

Enlisted actually comes from the game Cuisine Royale, released much earlier in 2019. Cuisine Royale is now called CRSED. Enlisted came out in 2021. The reason why I have never tried enlisted, is because it is way too similar. It's basically a re-skin.

[@tashkent561]

It's the opposite, actually, Cuisine was a joke mode made by the Enlisted developers while they were making the game, and they released it as a full game as April's Fools. It's not a reskin, Cuisine is a reskin of Enlisted.

[@thetechcorner7204]

@@tashkent561 actually looked this up. Because it was the first game they released I thought enlisted was the copy.

[@SCP_Foundation...]

Enlisted is an awesome game, the ai is your squad which you upgrade and grow, you can still have players join your party to play together

[@Boofmauler]

all the calm music in this video made me think I had my game open at the same time of watching this video

[@DekkerDave]

Jesus Christ, that Crab spy bug pulls a real nostalgia. I remember when it was fresh and how the whole team swapped to spies and did a crab wave once the game started. The amount of laughter was insane.

[@laurac0rd]

enlisted gets so hard when it actually puts you in player lobbies the first 5 ish games are begginner

[@PublicEnemyWithin]

It would be rad to see Zombie Panic receive a VR update

[@colowrs6969]

the hired ops game is a game that i used to play in 2013-2014 on facebook it was named contract wars or something like that

[@yourlocalguapo]

i used to play enlisted back in 2021. I remember raging, mainly because every lobby was just filled with tryhards. Literally, everyone on the opposing team going around 30/10.

[@mauricio6614]

Fist Full of Frags fits very well in this list, a very good and almost unknowed game in the steam.

[@tufanaydin6340]

i loved "Enlisted" i downloaded after the video. Game looks very good. Have big potential.

[@GiCo_]

yeah it is good,honestly a shame it is a pay to win

[@snifik]

Similar character or class system was first introduced in Return to Castle Wolfenstein and after that in the standalone Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Just so you know. :)

[@Brown_Water]

the only reason why i love steam and pc gaming in general is because there is a community for everything which is just so cool

[@snifey7694]

Your tf2 gameplay look like you got pissed on by the sniper each second

[@ITheGuy]

“Some older than you” went straight for blood 😂😂

[@firegod5457]

oh man, you make videos so similar to pyrocynical that i completely forgot i was watching you. great content man

[@KhaledIron]

dude dont hit me with that minecraft nostalgic music that activates 50+ memories in my head stop!

[@100cabelos]

Really great channel bro, what mic did you use ?

[@mahengodha2482]

You missed out on one of the biggest free to play games called Unturned

[@GuyWith2000SV]

I know that when u have bad luck u end up in a lobby full of "nps`s" in enlisted but from my experience, 3/4 games can be realy challanging and make lots of fun

[@user-lp5wb2rb3v]

hired ops is the same devs as EFT, but they were originally a browser game called Contract Wars. CW was my first FPS game XD

[@metalmaniac1836]

Enlisted is the only game I've ever played that makes me feel like I'm in an actual war

[@codycigar6542]

Play ARMA 3, Squad and Hell Let Loose.

[@NewEnglandGetsBusy]

Giant contention with how you characterized TF2 at the beginning. While it's a classic it certainly stood on the shoulders of giants. Considering this is a video about free games it's odd you didn't start with the free game that had global reach and a massive dedicated base of players years before TF2 came out: Wolfenstein E.T.

[@yesseru]

I only got into caliber because it was advertised as a milsim 1st person shooter, the ad i saw was literally tarkov footage as it turns out.

[@axonice]

I'm quite literally addicted to the soviet sniper class in the Moscow campaign.

[@stanggang768]

Enlisted is just advanced hand eye coordination simulator. Which I like for that reason. It’s fun to pop off

[@stanggang768]

Also. Hired ops was not free on release. Paid 20 bucks for that knock off of contract wars

[@agentbasil618]

i play enlisted so much im addicted to it

[@DennisRisadinha]

the minecraft soundtrack made my tear up from nostalgia idk why

[@RoberBot]

"me and the chat gpt boys" Lol, u got me bro... this one broke me

[@ethang6735]

First of all gl with enlisted... its still fun but once you get out of those beginner bot matches you are gonna get stomped on the regular but real players lol. As for some of the others... I can remember when TF2 WASNT free (needed it for GMOD rp server models to get rid of those pesky errors) and lucky me, I bought it 3 days before it went to free to play.... yes, 3 bloody days before. And how could we forget good ol zombie panic source... what a classic

[@aigaro9736]

Enlisted is like War Thunder but with Infantry

[@lsp5401]

Enlisted is one of my favorite games ever thanks for giving it a mention

[@guerrinlove69]

Anyone remember Combat Arms? Was one of the only free FPS games that could run on my old dell xps 210. I thank that game for all the good times

[@Notabl3]

0:19 before the whole orange box in general lol

[@mr.snowcone6067]

gotta add 'No More Room In Hell' to the free to play list. One of the best!

[@XxboxodxX-nk4mz]

most free games are absolute garbage made for 3 year olds with storys that dont make sense, but if you search enough, if you meticulously filter thru all the garbage games, you can find some hidden gems that are absolutely amazing and that are worth the search

[@BlingBoyOto]

Enlisted is only easy the first few matches because you're in lobbies of new players or players with meh stats + bots are very dumb. After that you are in normal matches as usual, but the bots have far better aim and don't ignore you as much when you're in their FoV. Caliber is heavily P2W due to it being very tier list reliant on the characters you use, that game you practically have to evade close range battles because someone with 2x your HP will just beat you even if their aim is worse than yours. Hired Ops is Facebook OG Contract Wars. Back in the day on Facebook as Contract Wars the game was one of best F2P shooters with only limitation being poor performance at times due to being on a browser. Now as Hired Ops the game is 50/50 half empty lobby or a lobby with a cheater.

[@MadsenTheDane]

Man Zombie Panic Source was the shit, i miss my young days where i played that all night :(

[@Pr1est_]

fun fact : hired ops is a copy of contract wars game which is made by battlestate games who then later on made tarkov after experimenting with cintract wars, maybe thats why it looks and feel similar

[@MorpheusGI]

Theirs a game in on playstation (and I think Xbox) called Vigor. It's an Extraction Battle Royale game - you have a homebase you have to upgrade with resources you find in the game mode, you then find and walk to an extract with those resources. I've been binge watching these series so curious what yout hink of that.

[@DIMITRI97]

No more room in hell and Zombie panic source. Classic.

[@teloxyz]

feels like im watching a documentary about haunted games

[@leeewjames]

I’d say unturned deserves a spot on here for sure

[@TheWildWestWandererOfficalYt]

No body talking about the review for hired ops~

[@negativeplayer4446]

My guy, there's a game that I want you to try out. It reminded me of Caliber, but I think the game's older. It's called "Battle Prime" and somehow, the devs managed to stuff visuals inching ever so close to Caliber in a mobile game.

[@Scribbles69]

enlisted is fun i only played it on launch tho on ps5 so of course it was popping then no idea what its like now

[@bioticreign6938]

I played enlisted quite a lot, embarrassingly, and when it come to team balance, there's nothing, for instance you'll, most of the time, get better teammates in tunisia allies than axis (believe me I have had so many games where I'd double or even triple the points in second place on my team and still lose)

[@Fr4nk4000]

Tf2 is amazing. It was the first online game I started playing. I stopped but came back recently because I just missed it so much. Tf2, half life, and portal have influenced me so much. Give Tf2 a try if you haven't.

[@leonardoskocic8266]

Ofc i will

[@lachlaninfield37]

As an enlisted player I can say the only command anyone uses for ai is the STAY TF HERE AND DONT GET BLOODY KILLED button (unless you play engineer squads), so that you can use them as a safe respawn place and keep an at gunner alive ect (or to keep them on a point so it caps faster), though they get themselfs killed anyway lol. Tho the thing I love about enlisted is that compared to other shooter games its a good bit more causal, its the kind of game id go and play if im doing bad on other shooters just to have a blast. also yea there are basically full of bot lobbies for beginers, that lasts a couple games

[@zacwilk4174]

contract wars was made by bsg (tarkov devs) it will receive no updates and be shut down soon because of tarkov arena. it was one of their first games and is part of the tarkov story line

[@Eluzv]

Man I’m so happy enlisted is final getting some attention I love that game

[@spnova8064]

the background minecraft music gives me a weird chill, Idk why

[@reviah4633]

bro ZOMBIE PANIC was my childhood

[@rare_kumiko]

The issue with enlisted is that (in true Gaijin Entertainment fashion) the progression sucks. So, good luck unlocking stuff and getting anywhere.

[@Murmanskkk]

It's better than the old campaign lvls. You can now focus on tanks, planes, or rifles. Instead of just having unlocked random

[@ArbyFoxxo]

Hired ops is made by people who made Contract wars, a free browser FPS game that you could even play on Facebook, which had the full level system and RPG elements Contract Wars got discontinued and small team went off to make Hired Ops, while the majority of the studio went off to make Escape From Tarkov Contract Wars was even more similar to tarkov since it was much slower and tactical, you couldn't even sprint in that game. It was insane for a free to play browser and FACEBOOK FPS Or that's what I know, maybe something else happened with the studio originally, maybe the smaller part of the team went on to make the Tarkov team, but yeah Escape from Tarkov has roots in a browser shooter, and it has a F2P sibling on steam

[@t_f_weston]

Dude.. your Minecraft background noise constantly going had me thinking I was going insane

[@Radioactivepaladin0703]

Hired Ops breaks my heart. Contract wars was a BIG part of my teen years and hired ops was the dream many CW players were waiting for. All that just to see it die in this fashion. Sad.

[@samamies88]

not a free game but tarkov are working on sidegame called "tarkov arena", devs previously worked on contract wars and i believe somehow are linked to hired ops. Arena will have some maps at least contract wars had (maybe some hired ops had too?).. arena will still cost money, less than a standard version of escape from tarkov. Still... might be worth? Not sure when it might come to steam.. heck, not sure when they start beta testing or when full release is (some speculation is around christmas when escape from tarkov wiped next time.. altho arena is stand alone game you can move gear between arena and escape from tarkov main game.. you can even use main character on both modes). So maybe you can get some of that nostalgia back?

[@toastythegoose]

Zombie Panic Source was suuucchh a good game. Spent hours playing, miss it.