One of 2025's biggest games is Battlefield 6, Electronic Arts' latest entry in its legendary combined arms-driven, large-scale FPS franchise. Though it only launched last month, it's rapidly become one of the year's most popular multiplayer titles, releasing with 750K concurrent players on Steam alone and selling over 7 million copies in just three days. It's remained a top performer since then in terms of both player count and sales, too.
Indeed, even with Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and ARC Raiders fiercely competing with it for player attention, Battlefield is doing incredibly well right now. And while playing it normally requires a full $69.99 purchase, you'll soon be able to jump into the shooter without spending a cent — at least for a little while, anyway.
However, it's important to note that the free trial will have some limitations. Specifically, these relate to the types and amount of content that you'll have access to while playing; free trial users will only be able to play "select maps and modes," with five modes and three maps on offer.
We know four of the five modes available will be Conquest, Breakthrough, Sabotage, and Team Deathmatch; the first two of these are some of Battlefield's core offerings, while Sabotage is a new mode (explained below) and Team Deathmatch is your classic race to 100 kills. The fifth mode is unknown, though if I had to guess, I'd say either Rush or Battlefield 6's popular new large-scale mode Escalation.
It's important to note that the free trial will have some limitations. Specifically, these relate to the types and amount of content that you'll have access to while playing; free trial users will only be able to play "select maps and modes," with five modes and three maps on offer.
As for the maps? You'll have Season 1's vehicle-heavy Blackwell Fields stage to jump into, as well as the awesome new Eastwood map that's come as part of the new California Resistance update and Siege of Cairo, which has more of an infantry focus (though there are still a few tanks present). I'm sad to see Blackwell Fields in there — it's widely disliked for being too open and not allowing for flanking — but both Eastwood and Siege of Cairo are top-tier.
Speaking of California Resistance, the free trial is essentially a celebration of its release, and all of its additions. Those include the aforementioned Eastwood map, a new tank-centric mission for REDSEC's Gauntlet mode, special loot-filled prepper stashes to find in battle royale, a limited-time Battlefield 6 8v8 mode called Sabotage with cargo objects to protect and/or destroy, the new DB-12 shotgun and M357 Trait sidearm, and more (check out the dev blog post for more details).
Though it hasn't been without its issues — a lack of truly large maps and some persistent gameplay-related bugs come to mind — Battlefield 6 is nevertheless a terrific game, and one of the best multiplayer shooters I've played in years. If you haven't given it a shot, I strongly encourage you to take advantage of the upcoming free trial in order to do so.
Something important to note is that while the game is available across Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, and PS5 for $69.99, you can pick up a code for the Xbox version of the title for just $65.99 at Loaded. That's hardly a large discount, but whether it's a little or a lot, saving money is always a good thing.
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