Updated October 2026 with current Indian retail prices.
Every site here is legal, and all but two are free to use: Amazon Luna needs Prime, and Game Pass is a paid subscription we include for comparison. We went through every site on this list in October 2026, checked what each one gives away today, and pulled this week’s free games straight from Epic’s and Steam’s own store data for India. No repack sites and no “highly compressed” downloads.
- Free games to keep: Epic Games StoreA new free game every Thursday, yours forever once you claim it.
- Free to play: SteamCS2, Dota 2, Apex Legends, Warframe and hundreds more.
- No launcher: GOGPlain installers that work offline, plus occasional giveaways.
- Already have Prime: Amazon LunaMonthly PC games to claim with Amazon Prime (₹1,499 a year).
Free PC Games This Week
Checked 27 October 2026 from each store’s own data for India. Claim before the end time and the game stays in your library.
Free nowEpic Games StoreSker RitualNormally ₹899 · free until Thu 29 Oct, 8:30 PM ISTKeep it forever
Free nowEpic Games StoreHome: A Unique Horror AdventureNormally ₹179 · free until Thu 29 Oct, 8:30 PM ISTKeep it forever
NextEpic Games StoreSorry We're ClosedNormally ₹899 · free from Thu 29 Oct, 8:30 PM ISTKeep it foreverEpic switches its free games every Thursday at 8:30 PM IST (9:30 PM IST from Thursday 5 November). Amazon Prime members can also claim monthly games on Amazon Luna.
Free to Keep, Free to Play or Free for a Weekend?
“Free” on a game store can mean three different things, and mixing them up is how people end up thinking they own a game that vanishes on Monday. Giveaways are yours to keep. Free to play games cost nothing but sell skins and passes. Free Weekends and trials end.
All 20 Sites at a Glance
Tap a site to jump to its details.
- 1Epic Games StoreA free game to keep every weekKeep forever
- 2SteamThe biggest free to play libraryFree to play
- 3GOGNo launcher, plus giveawaysKeep forever
- 4Amazon LunaFormerly Prime GamingKeep forever
- 5itch.ioFree and pay what you wantKeep forever
- 6Ubisoft ConnectA few big giveaways a yearKeep forever
- 7Riot GamesValorant, League of Legends, TFTFree to play
- 8Battle.netHearthstone, OverwatchFree to play
- 9EA appApex LegendsFree to play
- 10PC Game PassPaid, from ₹879 a monthSubscription
- 11Humble BundlePay what you want bundlesKeep forever
- 12Internet ArchiveMS-DOS games in your browserIn browser
- 13Game JoltFree indie and fan gamesKeep forever
- 14NewgroundsBrowser games and animationIn browser
- 15Armor GamesQuick HTML5 browser gamesIn browser
- 16r/FreeGameFindingsReddit alerts for every giveawayDeal alerts
- 17Final Fantasy XIVFree trial up to level 80Free trial
- 18Guild Wars 2Core MMO, free since 2015Free to play
- 19WarframeCo-op shooterFree to play
- 20Path of ExileAction RPGFree to play
The four biggest sources of free games cost nothing to use. Subscriptions are a different deal: you pay every month or year. Game Pass games leave when you stop paying, but Prime games you have already claimed stay yours.
The 20 Best Websites to Download Free PC Games, Ranked
Ranked by how much you can get for free and keep. The first six give away games or run regular free events. Then come free to play platforms, browser game sites, and four free games worth installing.
Epic Games Store
- What’s free
- Weekly giveaways plus free to play games
- Keep it?
- Yes, once claimed
- Works in India
- Yes, prices in rupees
This is the one to check every week. Epic gives away at least one game every Thursday, and you keep it once you click Get, even if you never install it. In 2025 alone Epic handed out 100 free games, and players claimed them 662 million times, according to Epic's own year in review. Past giveaways include GTA 5, Civilization 6, Control, Death Stranding, Borderlands 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. The weekly switch happens at 8:30 PM IST on Thursdays. From Thursday 5 November, after US clocks change on 1 November, it moves to 9:30 PM IST. In December Epic usually runs daily mystery games.
FortniteSteam
- What’s free
- Free to play games and Free Weekends
- Keep it?
- Free to play, rare giveaways
- Works in India
- Yes, prices in rupees
Steam doesn't give away paid games often, but its free to play section is the biggest anywhere. Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, Team Fortress 2, Apex Legends, Warframe, Path of Exile, War Thunder, World of Tanks and Destiny 2 are all listed as free on Steam India. Rainbow Six Siege now has a free tier too. Steam also runs Free Weekends, where a paid game is free to play for a few days and then goes back to its price. One catch for India: Lost Ark, which shows up on many lists, isn't sold on Steam here.
Dota 2
Counter-Strike 2
AION 2
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDSGOG
- What’s free
- Free games section and occasional giveaways
- Keep it?
- Yes
- Works in India
- Yes (prices may show in US dollars)
GOG sells games with no DRM, so you download a normal installer and the game runs without a launcher or an internet check. Because there is no DRM, a backed up installer doesn't need GOG's servers to run. Its free section has older classics and indie games, and it runs giveaways now and then, like the Alone in the Dark trilogy in February 2026. GOG was owned by CD Projekt until the end of 2025, when co-founder Michał Kiciński bought it.
Lumina Veil
Citadel Remonstered
Chapel 3-D: The AscentAmazon Luna (was Prime Gaming)
- What’s free
- PC games to claim every month with Prime
- Keep it?
- Yes, claimed games stay yours
- Works in India
- Yes, with Prime (₹1,499 a year)
Prime Gaming no longer exists under that name. Amazon folded it into Amazon Luna at the end of 2025, and the old gaming.amazon.com address now opens the Luna claims page. If you have Amazon Prime India (₹1,499 a year or ₹299 a month), you can still claim PC games each month. On 27 October 2026 the claims page had 14 games, including DOOM, Vampire: The Masquerade: Swansong and Hue. Games come as keys for GOG, Epic or the Amazon Games app, and they stay in your library. We couldn't confirm whether Prime Lite includes Luna claims, so check before you rely on it.
DOOM
Vampire: The Masquerade: Swansong
Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pititch.io
- What’s free
- Free and pay what you want indie games
- Keep it?
- Yes
- Works in India
- Yes
itch.io is where indie developers sell directly, and plenty of games are free or "pay what you want", which includes paying nothing. Filter the store by Free to see only zero rupee games. It's also home to game jams, the short contests where hits like Baba Is You started. Most games are small downloads, which is handy on a slow connection.
Trauma lab
To Eat a God
if you stay
The MasterplanUbisoft Connect
- What’s free
- Giveaways, free trials and betas
- Keep it?
- Giveaways, yes
- Works in India
- Yes
Ubisoft gives away a full game a few times a year, often for an anniversary. For Honor was free to keep from 15 to 28 September 2026. Earlier giveaways included Assassin's Creed Unity, Watch Dogs 2, Child of Light and Rayman Origins. You need a free Ubisoft account and the Ubisoft Connect app, so it's worth installing only if you play their games.
Rainbow Six Siege X
Trackmania
BrawlhallaRiot Games
- What’s free
- Valorant, League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics
- Keep it?
- Free to play
- Works in India
- Yes
One Riot account gets you Valorant, League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics and Legends of Runeterra, all free to play. You pay only for skins and passes. Valorant and League of Legends are also listed on the Epic store if you'd rather use one launcher.
VALORANT
League of Legends
Teamfight Tactics
2XKOBattle.net
- What’s free
- StarCraft, StarCraft II campaign, Hearthstone, Overwatch
- Keep it?
- Free to play
- Works in India
- Yes
Blizzard's app has more free games than people expect. The original StarCraft Anthology with Brood War has been free since 2017; StarCraft: Remastered is the paid version. StarCraft II's Wings of Liberty campaign is free too, along with Hearthstone and Overwatch.
Overwatch
Hearthstone
StarCraft IIEA app
- What’s free
- Free to play games such as Apex Legends
- Keep it?
- Free to play
- Works in India
- Yes
The EA app replaced Origin, which shut down in April 2025. Apex Legends is the main free game here, and it's on Steam as well. The EA Play "Vault" of older games is part of a paid subscription, so don't count it as free.
Apex Legends
Battlefield REDSEC
The Sims 4Xbox app and PC Game Pass
- What’s free
- Free to play games, plus a paid library from ₹879 a month
- Keep it?
- Only while subscribed
- Works in India
- Yes, rupee plans
The Xbox app and Microsoft Store list free to play games, but the real draw is PC Game Pass at ₹879 a month for a big rotating library. It isn't free, and the games leave when you stop paying. The console Game Pass tiers in India now include cloud play with monthly hour limits, from ₹499 a month for Game Pass Essential (5 hours) to ₹1,089 (15 hours). PC Game Pass on its own doesn't include cloud play.
Halo Infinite
Call of Duty: Warzone
FortniteHumble Bundle
- What’s free
- Pay what you want bundles and short giveaways
- Keep it?
- Giveaways, yes
- Works in India
- Yes, prices in US dollars
Humble is best known for bundles where you choose the price. It also runs free giveaways now and then, sometimes for just 48 hours. We couldn't find a permanent free games page in October 2026, so follow its newsletter if you want to catch them.
Internet Archive (MS-DOS games)
- What’s free
- Old DOS games that play in your browser
- Keep it?
- Play in browser
- Works in India
- Yes
The Internet Archive's MS-DOS Games collection listed 8,943 titles on 27 October 2026, and they run right in your browser through an emulator. Prince of Persia, Commander Keen and the first Duke Nukem are all there. Many of these games are still under copyright, so treat it as a museum you can play, not a download site.
The Oregon Trail
Prince of Persia
Wolfenstein 3D
SimCityGame Jolt
- What’s free
- Free indie and student games
- Keep it?
- Yes
- Works in India
- Yes
Game Jolt is like itch.io with a bigger community feed. You'll find student projects, fan games and horror experiments that never reach Steam.
The Very Organized Thief
Ravenfield (Beta 5)
Spooky's Jump Scare MansionNewgrounds
- What’s free
- Free browser games and animation
- Keep it?
- Play in browser
- Works in India
- Yes
One of the oldest homes for indie web games, and still running seasonal events. Good for a quick game in a browser tab when you don't want to install anything.
Troll the King
The Pond
Ticket To Nowhere
LiNX LiGHTSPEEDArmor Games
- What’s free
- Free HTML5 browser games
- Keep it?
- Play in browser
- Works in India
- Yes
Short browser games for a break between classes or work.
Firestone Idle RPG
Mr.Mine
Dungeon Crusher: AFK HeroesFreeGameFindings (Reddit)
- What’s free
- A community that posts free to keep game deals
- Keep it?
- Depends on the deal
- Works in India
- Yes
Not a store, but the fastest way to hear about giveaways on Epic, GOG, Steam, Ubisoft and smaller stores. Members post the deal and when it ends. Always click through to the official store page before you claim, and skip anything that asks you to download an installer from somewhere else.
Sker Ritual
Home: A Unique Horror Adventure
Depths Unseen
Radiant ExodusFinal Fantasy XIV free trial
- What’s free
- Four full story arcs up to level 80
- Keep it?
- Trial, no time limit
- Works in India
- Playable from India
The free trial now runs up to level 80 and covers A Realm Reborn, Heavensward, Stormblood and Shadowbringers, with no limit on playtime. Trial accounts can't use the market board or trade, but the story alone is hundreds of hours.
Guild Wars 2
- What’s free
- The core game, free since 2015
- Keep it?
- Free to play
- Works in India
- Yes
The base game has been free since August 2015, with no subscription. Only the expansions cost money. On 13 October 2026 ArenaNet also made Living World Season 2 free for every player with a level 80 character.
Warframe
- What’s free
- Full game, free on Steam and its own launcher
- Keep it?
- Free to play
- Works in India
- Yes
A fast co-op shooter with space ninjas and years of content. It's free on Steam, and you can earn almost everything by playing.
Path of Exile
- What’s free
- Full game, free on Steam
- Keep it?
- Free to play
- Works in India
- Yes
A deep Diablo style action RPG that's free to play. It sells cosmetics and extra stash tabs. Don't mix it up with Path of Exile 2, which is a separate, paid early access game.
Sites to Avoid: Repacks, Torrents and “Free Download” Pages
We won’t name or link them. If a site offers a paid game like GTA 5 or Elden Ring as a free download, it’s pirated, and that’s where the trouble starts.
- Malware is the business model. Kaspersky counted over 19 million attempts to download malicious or unwanted files disguised as popular games between April 2024 and March 2025. GTA was the top bait, followed by Minecraft.
- Hidden crypto miners. In 2021, Avast found one miner, Crackonosh, hidden in cracked games such as GTA V and Far Cry 5. It had infected over 222,000 PCs and earned its makers over 2 million US dollars, paid for by victims’ electricity and hardware.
- Stolen accounts. Fake installers often carry info stealers that grab saved passwords and logged in sessions from your browser. In a Flare study of 50,000 info stealer infections, 17.65% involved downloading a crack.
- It’s illegal. Downloading pirated games breaks the Copyright Act, 1957, and Indian ISPs block many pirate sites.
- No updates, no multiplayer. Cracked copies don’t get patches, and online play with friends usually doesn’t work.
How to Download Free Games Safely on Indian Broadband
- Use the store’s own app. Steam, Epic and GOG Galaxy can pause and resume, so a dropped connection doesn’t mean starting a 50GB download again.
- Download big games at night. Evening peak hours are the slowest on most home connections. Queue the download before bed.
- Check your data cap. Many Indian broadband plans have a monthly limit (FUP), after which speed drops. Big free games like CS2 and Apex Legends take tens of gigabytes, so check the size on the store page first.
- Type the address yourself. Search ads and lookalike sites copy the big stores. Go to store.epicgames.com or store.steampowered.com directly.
- Let Windows Security scan anything outside a store app. If a “free game” installer asks you to turn off your antivirus, delete it.
- Check unknown files on VirusTotal. Upload the file at virustotal.com before you run it. It scans it with dozens of antivirus engines for free.
Picking what to play? Our best free multiplayer PC games and best free offline games for PC lists are built only from these legal stores. On an older machine, start with our PC games for 4GB RAM and PC games under 1GB.
How We Checked These Sites
- Every site on 27 October 2026: the official site loads, the address is current, and what it gives away matches what we say.
- Store data, not other lists: this week’s free games come from Epic’s and Steam’s own store data for India, and prices from amazon.in and xbox.com/en-IN.
- What we fixed since May 2026: Prime Gaming is now Amazon Luna, GOG has a new owner, the FFXIV trial now reaches level 80, and we removed Lost Ark (not on Steam India) and the Rockstar launcher.
- Legal stores only: no repacks, no torrents and no “highly compressed” downloads.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is it legal to download free PC games in India?
Yes, when you get them from official stores like Epic Games Store, Steam, GOG, itch.io or Amazon Luna. The publishers give these away or make them free to play themselves. Downloading a paid game from a torrent or repack site is piracy and breaks the Copyright Act.
Which is the safest website to download free PC games?
Epic Games Store, Steam and GOG are the safest. Each is an official store, and the installers come from the store itself, and Epic gives away a game you can keep every week. Avoid any site that offers a paid game as a free download.
Do free Epic games stay in my library forever?
Yes. Once you click Get during the giveaway, the game stays in your Epic library even after the offer ends, whether or not you install it.
Is Amazon Prime Gaming still available in India?
Not under that name. Amazon folded Prime Gaming into Amazon Luna at the end of 2025. Prime members in India (₹1,499 a year or ₹299 a month) can still claim PC games on the Luna claims page, and claimed games stay yours.
What time do Epic free games change in India?
Every Thursday at 8:30 PM IST while US daylight time runs. From Thursday 5 November, after US clocks change, it moves to 9:30 PM IST.
Where can I download free PC games without a launcher?
GOG and itch.io offer plain installers that work without a launcher. The Internet Archive also has thousands of old DOS games that play right in your browser with no download.
Can I get paid PC games for free legally?
Yes, through giveaways. Epic gives away games every week, GOG, Ubisoft and Humble do it now and then, and Amazon Prime members can claim monthly games on Amazon Luna. Steam Free Weekends let you play paid games free for a few days.
More Free Game Guides
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- Best PC games under 1GB and under 10GB
- Best games under 5GB for PC
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