What made the best PC games stand out from console games in the early generations was the scale of games they could support. There are plenty of great multiplayer games on consoles, but the PC was at one time the only place you could play massively multiplayer games, aka MMORPS. Now, most of these are available on consoles as well, and even have cross-platform support, but still look and control best on a powerful rig. The MMO space used to only have a few major titles, but now there are dozens of games waiting to suck hundreds of hours of your life away. Most of us can only commit to one MMO at a time, so check out our list of the best ones you can play right now to make sure you pick a good one.
We included a mix of free and paid MMOs, but if you want a list of only the best free MMORPGs, we have you covered.
Although Albion Online has been a bit of an outlier for MMORPGs, you shouldn’t discount it right off the bat. Its biggest selling point is a player-driven economy, where just about every single item in the game is created by players from resources gathered throughout the world. The title features a somewhat cartoonish art style and is played from a top-down, isometric viewpoint — a stark contrast from most of the games in the genre. With a community that only continues to grow, no entry fee to worry about, and plenty to explore, Albion Online might be worth checking out.
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”
It’s turning into a pretty good time to be a Monster Hunter fan who plays on a phone. Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch on Android and iOS on October 29, giving the series a new mobile-first game just as Monster Hunter Rise is also preparing to make the jump to smartphones through Netflix.
Outlanders is being developed by Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group under license and supervision from Capcom. Unlike Rise, which appears to be the full console and PC game adapted for mobile, Outlanders is a free-to-play survival hunting game made specifically for phones.