Best free-to-play RPGs or RPG demos?

[Tavernking]

I could not find any game called 'Pirate Bay' which was recommended last time

 

[HarveyBirdman]

Boku no pico

 

[Comte]

Iceblink Engine Hearken World

 

[Owl]

 

[taxalot]

If you are not paying for it, you are not truly enjoying it.

 

[Incendax]

If you are not paying for it, you are not truly enjoying it.

Something, something, marriage, prostitution, witty remark.

 

[ShaggyMoose]

Great RPGs can be had on GoG for a few dollars. What is the point in pirating anything these days?

 

[Tweed]

Tim Sweeney made me do it.

 

[ShaggyMoose]

I guess that is another way to get free games the moment...

 

[Swigen]

Borderlands 2 is free to play this weekend.

 

[taxalot]

Great RPGs can be had on GoG for a few dollars. What is the point in pirating anything these days?

A few more dollars to spend on stuff that actually matters.

 

[Infinitron]

Serious answer:
https://af.gog.com/game/worlds_of_ultima_the_savage_empire?as=1649904300
https://af.gog.com/game/ultima_worlds_of_adventure_2_martian_dreams?as=1649904300

 

[SausageInYourFace]

Card Hunter is a pretty fun free to play tactical game with a nice pen and paper feel to it. Looks like pay-to-win crap but its perfectly playable for free. Card based combat might not be everyones cup of tea though.

 

[Martyr]

Prelude to Darkness 1.7 & 1.8

Nahlakh

Natuk

Pirates of the Western Sea

Realmz

The Aethra Chronicles

Helherron

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Depending on how you want to define "free", quite a few games have free open source reimplementations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engine_recreations

For most of them you still have to acquire the game files in some way though.

 

[buffalo bill]

Infra arcana
cataclysm dda
adom
doom rl

the majority of the best games developed in the last twenty years are free imo

 

[Martyr]

I keep forgetting about Unreal World although I've been playing it every day for the past 2 weeks and have already played it multiple times in the past.
that's a randomly generated survival RPG with perma-death (which can be avoided by copying the save folder and pasting it into the main folder, after you've died). this means you'll have to play in short bursts if you don't want to possibly lose 1h+ of progress.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Eschalon Book I is free on Gog. It's basically a full 20 hours game free of charge. If you like it, you can get Book II and III for pennies.

 

[Farewell into the night]

Heroine's Quest rpg/adventure hybrid

 

[Serus]

Infra arcana
cataclysm dda
adom
doom rl

the majority of the best games developed in the last twenty years are free imo

Well said. Cataclysm DDA and Doom RL - are both fantastic games. Well, ADOM is not bad either but I haven't played it nearly as much as the other two.

 

[buffalo bill]

Infra arcana
cataclysm dda
adom
doom rl

the majority of the best games developed in the last twenty years are free imo

Well said. Cataclysm DDA and Doom RL - are both fantastic games. Well, ADOM is not bad either but I haven't played it nearly as much as the other two.

they're all great, but overall I think I like infra arcana the best of the four

 

[normie]

elona

 

[HeatEXTEND]

......Caravaneer 2?

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Dink Smallwood.
http://www.dinknetwork.com/

 

[Lacrymas]

Tales of Maj'Eyal and Stone Soup.