Hi I am looking for a **free ** game with simple mechanics, competitive and online is a plus. plus suggest games that don’t require steam, I don’t want to install that software
I used to play vanis.io but people spoiled it by playing in teams while I like playing solo, while other games of the genre (slither, agar, paper.io) couldn’t stick with them
I played mindustry, and wasted tens of hours, until I found out That I was playing campaigns without having unlocked enough research to beat the master, the game didn’t have the right mechanisms to orient me to the winnable campaigns, and I ended hating it for that.
I am a simple guy looking for a simple game to distress (not candy crush simple)
Consider Chess. LiChess, the site I linked, is free with no ads. You can play on the website or in their mobile app. They will match you against players of comparable skill, so you shouldn’t get annihilated too often. Or you can play against the computer to practice.
Board Game Arena! It’s free and lots of great turned-based games you can play at your leisure, all through the web. Its wonderful!
Try Gwent. It’s a card game that’s really fun and competitive.
I didn’t know this was a thing
Rocket League. It’s fun as long as you don’t get sweaty over it.
If you’re open to playing games on your phone, I have a couple competitive games that I can reccomend. All these games have micro transactions and battlepasses, as is tradition for monetizing mobile games these days, but they do not provide an edge over opponents, with the exception of possibly Brawl Stars. Most are cosmetic or pay to progress. None of them have any external ads you must watch:
Wild Rift - very action oriented and team based. It can be quite intense at times, so I’m not sure I would call it relaxing for most. But it’s fairly competitive.
Legends of Runeterra - From the same company, has the same characters as Wildrift, but is a card game that sits somewhere between hearthstone and Magic in its complexity.
Brawl Stars - very bright, colorful and cartoony. Team based action, with many different game modes. Similar idea and control scheme to Wildrift, but with much simpler objectives. In turn it feels much more casual. Has maybe the most aggressive minimization of the three in terms of it being in your face, but you can still play it for free.
King of Dragon Pass i think just got a release on mobile, and if not it’s on GOG.com
Age of empires 2: definitive edition Not free but often discounted for a couple of dollars
Ok, I’ll bite… Why don’t you want to install Steam? Just curious.
I am not a gamer. very rarely game, and when I do, I use it to distress.
I’ve seen it on my brothers laptop forcing updates at (almost) every system start-up, taking up more and more space, so I don’t want to clutter my PC with more stuff I don’t frequently use. or with a software that acts rogue on my pc. (I dislike auto-update) that I disabled them on windows even at a security cost.
