A competitive shooter where the building is part of the weapon sandbox.
That One Thing
You can drop the objective through two floors instead of walking into the team guarding the door.
THE FINALS earns its name whenever a carefully defended room becomes open sky and three teams improvise in the rubble.
Worth the cost
Free, or regularly available for $15 or less. Good developers deserve to be paid, and optional cosmetics, expansions, and premium extras are welcome. But we won't list games that sell competitive advantages, disguise a trial as free, or charge again to finish the core experience.
Ready to play
Playable and satisfying today. It can be unfinished; it cannot be unfun. We love supporting indie developers, but prototypes, broken releases, and promises of a future game do not make the cut.
Tested by PlayBound
We install it, launch it, and play it ourselves. We've spent hours building definitive editions and making multiplayer work, because a store-page claim is not the same as a game we can confidently put in front of you.
That One Thing
Every game needs that one thing we'd excitedly tell our friends about. It might be the mechanics, story, art, soundtrack, controls, community, or the way it brings people together. If it doesn't have one, it doesn't make the catalog.
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THE FINALS is a competitive first-person shooter staged as a lethal game show. Teams fight over cash boxes and cashout stations, but the objective is only half the design. Buildings are destructible, physics objects stay useful and a defensive position can disappear when somebody removes the floor beneath it.
Light, Medium and Heavy builds provide different movement, weapons and gadgets without locking teams into traditional roles. Grappling hooks, jump pads, goo walls, healing beams and demolition charges create plans that look improvised because they are. Cashout modes reward timing and steals as much as elimination count, while Power Shift and rotating events provide less formal ways to learn the sandbox.
The spectacle has a cost. Performance can swing when structures collapse, visual noise is intense and coordinated teams punish solo players. The store focuses on cosmetics and battle passes, leaving competitive tools earnable through play. On PC there is no dependable first-party standalone installer, so Steam is the last-resort PlayBound route. It is worth that compromise for players who want a shooter where map knowledge includes knowing which walls should stop existing.
We picked THE FINALS because destruction changes strategy instead of merely decorating it. A wall breach creates a route, a collapsed ceiling moves an objective and a desperate demolition can rescue a lost round. The result feels authored by the players even after dozens of matches.
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Minimum
Windows 10 64-bit · Core i5-6600K or Ryzen R5 1600 · 12 GB RAM · GTX 1050 Ti or RX 580 · DirectX 12 · 18 GB storage.
Recommended
Windows 10/11 64-bit · Core i5-9600K or Ryzen 5 3600 · 16 GB RAM · RTX 2070 or RX 5700 XT · SSD.
Yes. Competitive equipment is earned through play; purchases focus on cosmetics and battle-pass rewards.
THE FINALS does not offer a verified standalone PC installer, so Steam is the necessary last-resort PC route.
Yes. Walls, ceilings and floors can be removed to create routes, expose defenses or move objectives.
Yes. Supported PC and console platforms can play together through an Embark ID.
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