Valorant is a free-to-play multiplayer first-person shooter developed and published by Riot Games, for Microsoft Windows. The game was announced under the codename Project A in October 2019, and was released on June 2, 2020. Valorant is a team-based tactical shooter and first-person shooter set in the near future. Players assume the control of agents, characters who come from a plethora of countries and cultures around the world.