Hand-picked groupings from the PlayBound catalog. Short lists, because a list of ninety games answers nothing.
Command, conquer, and build. From open-source thousand-unit slugfests to the original StarCraft, the strongest real-time strategy games in the PlayBound catalog.
Includes: OpenRA, Beyond All Reason, 0 A.D., Zero-K, Warzone 2100
Dust off the ethernet switch. These games were born for a room full of friends, pizza boxes, and trash talk.
Includes: OpenArena, Necesse, Factorio, Don't Starve Together, BombSquad
Big fun, small footprint. Every game here is a modest download under 500 MB, so it installs in minutes and runs on almost any laptop.
Includes: Soccer Brawl, Super Sidekicks, The Elder Scrolls: Arena, Baseball Stars 2, Relic Hunters Zero: Remix
One screen, many controllers, guaranteed arguments. The best games in the catalog for playing side by side on the same couch.
Includes: Stardew Valley, Quake II Enhanced, BombSquad, Re-Volt (RVGL), The Spike Cross
Criminally underplayed. Each of these deserves ten times its player count — get in before everyone else does.
Includes: The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Shadow Warrior Classic Complete, Freedoom, Hawken: Hawkening, SRB2Kart
Missing the villager hum? These RTS games scratch the civilization-building, army-massing itch.
Includes: 0 A.D., Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga, Stronghold Crusader HD, Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries, Widelands
Loot, levels, and the endless descent. Games for when you need numbers to go up and monsters to go down.
Includes: Path of Exile, Warframe, Veloren, Shattered Pixel Dungeon
The games you grew up with — open-sourced, remastered, or rebuilt — and better than you remember.
Includes: OpenRA, OpenTTD, Warzone 2100, StarCraft, Dune Legacy
Persistent worlds with other players in them. From long-running MMORPGs to space sandboxes and open-world online RPGs, all installable through PlayBound.
Includes: The Lord of the Rings Online, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Guild Wars 2, Pokémon Blaze Online, DC Universe Online
Competitive shooters, classic arena fraggers, and team-based tactical FPS — every multiplayer first-person shooter in the catalog.
Includes: VALORANT, Team Fortress 2, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Quake II Enhanced, Quake Champions
Kart racers, arcade rally, and open-source road racing — the racing games in the PlayBound catalog.
Includes: Re-Volt (RVGL), OutRun, SRB2Kart, Asphalt Legends, SuperTuxKart
Trade, fight, and explore among the stars: top-down space sims, classic space RPGs, and online space MMOs.
Includes: Privateer Gemini Gold, The Ur-Quan Masters, Naev, Endless Sky, EVE Online
Turn-based empires, transport tycoons, and colony builders. Slower-paced strategy for people who like to plan.
Includes: Freeciv, OpenCiv3, Widelands, Unknown Horizons, OpenTTD
Games built to be played together over the internet: survival, building, shooters and sandboxes to tackle with friends.
Includes: Stardew Valley, Necesse, Factorio, Don't Starve Together, Barotrauma
Beat-'em-ups, Neo Geo sports, and run-and-gun shooters in the arcade tradition — pick up and play.
Includes: BombSquad, OutRun, Super Sidekicks, Soccer Brawl, X-Men Arcade Remake