The Free Game Offers Thread

As part of a stay at home campaign from Sony, they are offering a couple games for free from April 15 to May 5. Those two games are:


Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection - This is a collection of the first three Uncharted games remastered for the PS4. If you have not played one, these are what Naughty Dog cut their teeth on before The Last of Us. Highly cinematic treasure hunt adventure movies with third person shooting gameplay and mild exploration and puzzle solving elements.

Journey - A very well regarded indie adventure game that is sort of about shared experiences. Or maybe it's more accurate to say it's about connections you make with people you never even communicate with. This was one of those games that left an impact on the people who played it when it came out.

Both are highly recommended.

I noticed last night over steam that Shogun 2: Total War was out for free via Steam. It is a fantastic game, and I love their Total War franchise. I chose to download and install it, and despite its system recommendations stating it would not run on my system, it manged to work with flying colors -- Remarkably well. I am looking forward to trying some additional games soon as well.

Shogun 2 is pretty good.

Here's one from Humble Bundle: Ashes of the Singularity. I haven't played it myself, but I know it's an RTS that was notorious for being very cpu intensive. It used to get used in a lot of benchmark tests for new hardware.

Humble Bundle - 2 Days Left

Also note: Epic Games store is requiring users to enable two factor authentication to redeem free games, but only through May 21st. I've got no idea what it's only temporary, but none of the things they have offered the past few weeks have been interesting anyway.

Epic Games has GTAV for free until the 22nd.

However their website and service has crashed under the strain.

Man they got hit hard, I'm surprised there are that many people who don't have GTA 5 yet. The dang game has been in every month's top 10 sellers list since it came out.

Next week is also another mystery game, which implies it is another game as big as GTA 5, or they want us to think it is. I thought it was going to be The Witcher 3, but that's discounted in their current sale so maybe that's out.

Incidentally their sale is what this is promoting. And like their last sale you get $10 off coupons with every purchase. Getting GTA 5 for free counts as a "purchase" and you get your first coupon, hook line and sinker! Or that's the hope anyway.

This week's free Epic game is Civilization 6. Next week is another mystery title.

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This week's free Epic game is Civilization 6. Next week is another mystery title.

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I do not have direct access to a machine that will play it, myself, but I made sure to grab it.

I might choose to upgrade to a faster/more powerful PC in the future, and it would be nice to have that game in my catalog. Free is Free, and I ain't complaining.

As time goes on, and the number of machines I become aware of that are running linux primarily, or even exclusively, I am surprised by the number of individual companies that just choose not to support it at all. Given how simple it is to support such a system, and how often many games are already designed to port right over to Linux, not to mention the number of existing developer systems that are running a *nix in order to create, I just find it shocking how retailers like Epic, GOG, and HUmble Bundle do not do as much open Linux support as they could.

Steam uses the very impressive Proton system in order to support just about any machine setup, but in order to run Epic Game Store, Lutris and Wine both have to run underneath it. It isn't even worht trying on my machine (i'e tried it, and it is a chore, just to delete and reinstall the damn machineid registry key for 20 minutes just to get a game to start).

GOG and HUmble BUndle have a number of offerings available for linux, but even theirs pale in comparison to that of steam.

Origin is another one that has zero support for Linux.

This week's free Epic game is Borderlands: The Handsome Collection (contains Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel). Next week is another mystery title, but chances are very good it will be Ark: Survival Evolved, which is one of those multiplayer crafting survival things but with dinosaurs. After GTA5, there was a leak that the other free games would be Civ 6, Borderlands, and Ark. Two out of three is enough to convince me the leak was real and not a fake rumor.


I posted a big list of free games on Twitch once, but the trend very quickly became to give pages and pages of free microtransactions in popular online free to play games rather than actual full games themselves so I stopped paying attention. Right now they are giving away a bunch of old SNK fighting games though.

Gog is giving away Total Annihilation and it's two expansions away for the next 48 hours.

To anyone unfamiliar, this was a pretty big RTS back in 97-98. At least, before Starcraft stole it's thunder. Some people prefer TA though. Whereas Starcraft advanced the genre in a direction it was already taking (unique specialized units), Total Annihilation was doing new things for RTS games. It had a unique economy model and sacrificed faction diversity by instead having a staggering number of units capable of countering different kinds of threats. It's main drawback was a bland story mode.


Epic's free mystery game this week is Overcooked, a co-operative kitchen game. They've given this away previously, which is something they have been known to do at the last minute when another deal fell through. Incidentally, the previously rumored game (Ark) had an event this week that was delayed due to the protests. Fair chance that's why the deal fell through. No idea if it will return.

Supposedly next week's mystery game is already decided. Apparently some kind of Samurai Shodown NeoGeo collection has been announced for it. This may or may not be the same thing that Twitch was giving away, I don't really know.

Gog is now giving away Hitman: Absolution for a limited time. This was the last game before the most recent reboot/overhaul that returned the series to its roots. Absolution was heavily criticized for straying and becoming too much of an action game, but it's still pretty good.

This week Epic is giving away the aforementioned ARK: Survival Evolved and The Samurai Shodown thing. As their sale is now over, they are not doing mystery games anymore and are back to announcing what next week will have. Next week's games are The Escapists 2 and Pathway.

Gog is having a Dungeons and Dragons sale and the Eye of the Beholder Trilogy is free for a few days.

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Gog is having a Dungeons and Dragons sale and the Eye of the Beholder Trilogy is free for a few days.

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I saw this on another forum. Made me all nostalgic about playing Eye of the Beholder again. It's probably not as good as I remember, but I really loved Dungeon Master and all the games that spun off that design back then. I'm picking Eye of the Beholder up no matter what :-)

Speaking of Dungeon Master....Apart from various incomplete mods for Legend of Grimrock , does any of you happen to know of an actual remake (or close to) Dungeon Master?

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Speaking of Dungeon Master....Apart from various incomplete mods for Legend of Grimrock , does any of you happen to know of an actual remake (or close to) Dungeon Master?

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I'm not familiar with Dungeon Master. I can name several Wizardry style dungeon crawlers if you just want something similar, but if you are looking for an update of that game specifically I can't help you.

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I'm not familiar with Dungeon Master. I can name several Wizardry style dungeon crawlers if you just want something similar, but if you are looking for an update of that game specifically I can't help you.

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Dungeon Master has a very special place in my gaming heart, and I am mainly looking for a nostalgia trip, so I'd love to simply replay the game, but updated to run on a modern computer and preferably with improved graphics :-)

This is the best I could come up with. Fan made ports made to run on "modern" computers. I haven't checked to see if any still work, but you seem to have four options to choose from.

Dungeon Master Fan Forums - Community Creations

Rock Paper Shotgun article talking about and linking to one of the above.

Nice - Thanks for the tips!
I'll dive into those and see what I can find.

Criterion is offering a half dozen of their smaller games for free (donation to charity not required). https://criteriongames.com/game-jams/

On July 12th Ubisoft will be having an event showcasing some of their upcoming games. If you log into Uplay during the event, you will be able to redeem Watchdogs 2 for free.

Ubisoft Forward - Details

The Ubisoft servers were not able to handle the load and buckled during their stream. To make it up to anyone who was not able to log in during the promotion, they have created this page to redeem a free copy of Watchdogs 2 (if you have a Uplay account).

Ubisoft Forward Rewards

I've already mentioned this in the monthly thread, but next week on August 13th and only on August 13th, Epic is giving away the new Total War: Troy game away for free. One day only.

They are also giving Remnant: From the Ashes away from August 13th - 20th. This game is kind of a cross between Destiny and Dark Souls. Third person shooter that you can play with two other friends, collect loot, shoot monsters.