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WatchMojo says you don’t need to spend a dime to game like a pro in 2020.

On April 5, 2020, WatchMojo dropped its countdown “Top 10 Best Free Games of 2020,” sizing up the free-to-play titles worth your download bandwidth without touching your wallet. The list leans on games that give away real content — not stripped-down demos — and it draws on some of the biggest names in the free-to-play space heading into the spring of that year. Armored tank warfare, a looter-shooter that ditched its price tag, and two very different monster-hunting RPGs all make the cut.

• WatchMojo published the countdown on April 5, 2020, ranking free-to-play video games available across PC and console.
• Bungie’s Destiny 2 lands on the list after shifting key content over to a free-to-play structure, opening up the base game to anyone willing to download it.
• Phoenix Labs’ Dauntless and Digital Extremes’ Warframe both make the countdown as free co-op and third-person action titles built around long-term content drops rather than upfront purchases.

The Armored and the Free

World of Tanks anchors the countdown as the armored-warfare multiplayer staple that’s been running players through tank-on-tank combat for years without charging entry. It’s the kind of title that WatchMojo’s ranking leans on to make the point that “free-to-play” doesn’t have to mean thin — the vehicle roster and progression systems give players a legitimate grind without a paywall in front of it.

Sitting alongside it is Bungie’s Destiny 2, which by early 2020 had restructured itself so a huge chunk of its sci-fi looter-shooter content — story campaigns, the Crucible PvP modes, Gambit — was accessible for free. That pivot is exactly why it made WatchMojo’s cut rather than a straight “great game” list; the value proposition changed, and the countdown treats that shift as one of the defining free-to-play stories heading into the year.

Destiny 2’s move to free-to-play didn’t trim the game down — it opened the front door to the whole thing.

Monster Hunting Without the Price Tag

Phoenix Labs’ Dauntless makes the list as the co-op monster-hunting action-RPG built for players who want that Monster Hunter-style loop of tracking, fighting, and gearing up against massive Behemoths — minus the console-exclusive baggage or upfront cost. It’s a title designed around repeatable hunts and crafted loadouts, the exact structure that keeps free-to-play games sticky months after launch.

Digital Extremes’ Warframe gets its own spot as the long-running online third-person action game that’s been quietly building out its arsenal of Warframes, weapons, and open-world zones for years, all without requiring a purchase to get started. WatchMojo’s countdown treats it as one of the genre’s elder statesmen — proof that a free-to-play title can keep expanding its content for the better part of a decade and still land on a “best of” list.

Common Themes Linking the List

What separates WatchMojo’s picks from a typical mobile freemium grab-bag is scope: World of Tanks, Destiny 2, Dauntless, and Warframe all hand players full progression systems, competitive modes, and ongoing content updates without a subscription or entry fee standing in the way. That’s the throughline of the countdown — quality-first, not just “technically free.” Anyone tracking what else launched around that stretch can find more of the picture in WatchMojo’s Top 10 NEW Games of April 2020 roundup, and for console-specific coverage from the same window, the Top 30 NEW PS4 Games of 2020 rundown covers where the paid releases were headed that year.

Four games, four different genres, zero purchase required — that’s the pitch WatchMojo’s countdown is making, and it’s Destiny 2’s free-to-play pivot that carries the most weight on the list, simply because it took a game people already paid full price for and tore down the wall for everyone else.