Riot Games' free FPS game Valorant is out in India, Europe, America

It was launched globally yesterday and is up for free downloads right now from its official site as long as your PC can support it

The game is not on Steam, like all other Riot Games' titles. You have to download it from the website.  (Valorant/Twitter )

Riot Games' new free-to-play first-person shooter (FPS) has been launched across the globe, including India. The game was launched yesterday and is available in the Asia Pacific, Oceania, Europe, Middle East, Turkey, North Africa and Russia and rolling on to Latin America and South America as well.

Valorant has been tweeting these launch times from its official handle on Twitter and also giving us a little peek into the game's first episode, called Ignition, a new map (Ascent) and where it's set (in Italy).

The game is now up for downloads, however, you can download this Windows-only PC game from it's website, it's not on Steam.

Unfortunately, if you were planning to use a VPN, Riot said that they are not “supporting regional transfers” and that will also affect your server and your ping value - so don't do it.

For anyone attempting to VPN in to a different region to get early access to VALORANT, a gentle reminder that we aren't supporting regional transfers at this moment.

— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) June 2, 2020

Valorant does not have any dedicated servers in India right now and Riot has said that servers for the Middle East and South Asia will come later this year.

Like we said, to download it, you need to go to their site. Like all other Riot Games titles, this one is not on Steam. Go to the Valorant website, click on “Play Now”, login (or sign up) to your official Riot Games account and the site will take you to the download page.

Nividia released a Valorant Game Ready Driver last week which is numbered GeForce Game Ready 446.14 WHQL and brings support for Windows 10 May 2020 update. There are some issues with the May update of Windows 10, so while you take an informed decision about that, you need to make sure that your PC has the support.