The Best Free Games To Play With Friends in November 2024
New arrivals on Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus – including Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies and Death Note Killer Within – bring plenty of games to play with your friends for free in November.
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Things are starting to get a bit chilly outside, which means November is the perfect month in which to hop online and play games with your friends. And while you're at it, why not try something new for free? We’ve checked out the latest additions to Xbox Games Pass, PS Plus, and Steam to round up the best free games to play with friends in November.
StarCraft II Campaign Collection
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- Players: 1-2
- Free on: Xbox Game Pass
StarCraft is one of the grandfathers of the RTS genre, which can make it a bit daunting for those less experienced! Fortunately, StarCraft 2 comes with an excellent co-op mission collection that lets you strategize in sync with another. The Campaign Collection will let you take control of various commander characters, each with their own unique abilities. Lead your armies through scenarios successfully and you’ll level up, unlocking more units and powers. While the co-op mode is no longer being updated, there’s plenty of replayability for a strategy set of two friends thanks to the broad selection of commanders and weekly mutators that reshape mission structures and rules.
Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 - Turbocharged
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- Players: 1-10 (in an online party, two-player split-screen)
- Free on: PlayStation Plus
The basic tutorial and introduction to Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 - Turbocharged doesn’t do a great job of selling you on the game. But blitz past those boring starter tracks, because the real appeal here lies in the user-created levels. Create a party with up to 10 of your friends online and the basic quick play mode will let you vote on a selection of tracks for each race, most of which have been built by other players. As a result, they’re often unbelievably bonkers, with cycling loops, giant vertical drops, and bumps that’ll throw you clear off the course if you boost over them. If you’ve ever played a Trackmania game, you’ll know the sort of racing on offer here.
Despite Hot Wheels being all about toy cars, there’s also a shockingly detailed livery system included, which allows you to craft some spectacularly ugly or beautiful rides (preference depending) before revealing them to your friends in races. Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 - Turbocharged is far from a perfect racer, but it’s a great deal of fun to dive into for a game night or two with a group of friends eager to rev their engines. Enjoy it enough, and you could even craft your own set of tracks to race on.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies
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- Players: 1-4
- Free on: Xbox Game Pass
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies returns to the series’ typical round-based format, and is all the better for it in our opinion. There are two maps teeming with undead to tackle on launch: Terminus and Liberty Falls. The former is the proper new story map for die-hard Zombies players, but if you’re new to the concept, then we found Liberty Falls a far less confusing and stressful first-time experience. Kill zombies, earn points, buy guns and upgrades, unlock pathways, repeat. Just remember to let your buddies know that they should exfil when they can if things are getting too tough! Black Ops 6 Zombies works well even with just two, but the chaos properly ramps up with a full squad of four.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Release Date: October 25, 2024
Death Note Killer Within
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- Players: 4-10
- Free on: PlayStation Plus
A brand new arrival on PS Plus, Death Note Killer Within is a bit like Among Us but with several layers of additional complexity and confusion lathered on top. It’s a social deduction game that pits a team of Investigators under the command of L against the death-dealing Kira and his Followers.
Investigators can complete various tasks each day to progress toward victory, but they risk having their identities nabbed by any other player who gets close. And if Kira successfully snags your ID, he can kill you outright by writing your name in his lethal notebook. Should Kira identify and execute L, the Investigators lose immediately. If the Investigators can arrest Kira and secure the Death Note, they claim victory.
Our play session saw Kira's team winning comfortably almost all of the time, but there’s a good chance that’s down to us and others failing to grasp the correct and cautious way to complete our tasks safely. We can’t guarantee you’ll have a great and balanced time here, but Death Note Killer Within is bizarre and unusual enough that it’s well worth giving a go while free. You’ll need at least four players to get a game going, but it feels ideally suited to the maximum player count. Wrangle as many friends as you can if you want to give this one a go.
If you're still after more to play, be sure to visit our upcoming releases page or take a look at the free games we recommended last month here!