Team Fortress Classic

Team Fortress Classic remains one of the most popular online action games of all time. The format that defined class-based team shooters lives in the foundation here: over nine character classes, from Medic to Spy to Demolition Man, enlisted in a unique style of online team warfare.

Each class brings unique weapons, items, and abilities. The Medic patches teammates and infects enemies, the Spy disguises and stabs, the Demolition Man controls space with pipe bombs and detonators, and the rest of the lineup fills out roles that other shooters have spent decades trying to balance against this original.

Teams compete online across a variety of game-play modes that the broader genre has copied for years. The asymmetric class kit and capture-the-flag rhythm that shaped multiplayer shooters started here, and the original servers still draw the dedicated.