free-to-play

1. not comparablevideo gamesThat can be played without payment.

plural free-to-plays

1. rareA free-to-play video game.

   She was often up late, playing her futile Free-to-Plays.

   2017, Gregory Scott Katsoulis, “Influent™: $19.99”, in All Rights Reserved, Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin TEEN, →ISBN, page 150

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   HGM’s writers have spent time in the grindiest of grindy Korean and Japanese free-to-plays, but Free Realms is something new and different and better.

   2009 June, Lynxara [pseudonym; Alicia Ashby], Vivek Varadarajan, “Free Realms”, in Hardcore Gamer Magazine, volume 5, number 1, [Redmond, Wash.]: DoubleJump Publishing, →ISSN, page 12

   Hit the Flash games, the demos, and the free-to-plays until you start to get your head wrapped around why people like them.

   2013 March, Jason VandenBerghe, “Design of the Times”, in Game Developer Magazine, volume 20, number 03, San Francisco, Calif.: UBM LLC, →ISSN, page 081, column 2