Valorant is a 5v5 fps game. There are two sides. Counterterrorists(defense) and terrorists(attack). If ur defense first half, then you try to kill all of them and try to stop them from planting the spike(bomb). If they do, you try to defuse it in the given amount of time that u have(should be around 40 seconds not sure). If youre attack first round, you try to rush the sites and then you try to plant the bomb and try to bait out the time so they dont have any time to defuse. You also have agents with abilities to assist you in ur gameplay. Every weapon in the game has recoil control that you need to know and try to work on it so youre shots can be accurate. If ur from another tactical shooter game, the best agent to try in my opinion is reyna because its dependent on gunplay. If u want to figure out more characters and their abilities, then you can go in custom game and try it out yourself. Thats the basics of the game.