The Free Game Offers Thread

So sometimes a company gives away a game for free for a limited time. This is often done to get you to use their service, and we all have various ways of sharing this information. Sometimes I make a thread for it, sometimes I put it in a thread that already exists. I've begun to wonder if it would be better to have them all listed in a single thread as they come up.

I've set up a poll so anyone with an opinion can help me decide. I'm not sure myself. https://www.graffes.com/forums/showt...-Game-Opinions

Time limit on that is 30 days.

As a trial run, the first offer I'm posting in this thread is Age of Wonders 3 at Humble Bundle. By this posting, the offer ends in 19 hours.

I'm fairly certain I've seen some of you talking about this one before. I used to think it was a fantasy spin off of the Age of Empires series, but it's apparently a 4X style game made by a different studio entirely. The big new feature in this one is apparently an rpg system and a leader/hero character you can create.

Humble Bundle has launched what they are calling a Spring Sale, and part of that is Guacamelee for free. Humble Bundle - Guacamelee Super Turbo Championship Edition I caught this one early so the time limit as of this moment is 2 days.

Guacamelee is a luchador themed Metroidvania game. That is, it's a 2D sidescroller where you explore large connected environments and use newly acquired abilities to reach new areas. The combat is a little different from a typical Metroidvania and is more like a brawler or pure action game. Overall it's pretty good.


The Epic Games Store has also launched a seasonal sale. They are offering a free game every two weeks. Stories Untold now - May 30th, and Rime May 23rd - May 30th. I don't know what Stories Untold is, but Rime is one of those artsy 3D adventure games where you explore an environment and solve puzzles to progress, with each environment themed. I personally did not care for it, but I know the central themes in it (which I won't spoil) resonated with a lot of people.

Thanks for the tip - I snatched up Stories Untold. Although I never heard of it before, it might be interesting to try out at some point :-)

I really didn't think I would get this much use out of this thread so soon.

Origin (EA) is giving The Sims 4 away free for the next 6 days. They are of course hoping people then buy all the expansions/DLC, and there is a fair chance a Sims 5 is in the works, but hey free is free.

Note that you need to go to their website. If you use their Steam wannabe app it will try to force you to gift it instead.

Guacamelee (same version as Humble) is available on Steam.

Grid2 is available on Steam until 1pm on 5/22.

Gog is giving away Obduction for free, for the next 36 hours. This is a new puzzle adventure from the creators of Myst.

https://www.gog.com/game/obduction

Is this free game season or something?

Yet another. Epic Games Store is giving away City of Brass, a roguelike fps. It's touted as being made by some of the same people that made Bioshock, but I'm not sure it has that much in common.

Today I got a notification that Epic is giving away Kingdom New Lands for free next.

Kingdom is kind of a tower defense game on a 2D plane. That is to say you only have two directions to defend from. New Lands was an update to the game that added some level of new content.

The original game was free at what point, and I was immediately drawn to it because of it's pixel graphics. I vaguely recall getting very annoyed by it, and I'm not sure if the New Lands content fixed what I didn't like about it.

From now trough the 20th, Epic is giving away Enter the Gungeon. Starting on the 20th, they will be giving away Rebel Galaxy. Both are supposed to be pretty good games.

Enter the Gungeon is a top down bullet hell dungeon crawler thing. Might also be a roguelike? Not certain.

Rebel Galaxy is a space combat game. I played it a couple years ago, as long as you aren't expecting a heavy sim it's really good.

I thought Epic was giving free games away as part of whatever sale promotion it had going on, but now I'm beginning to think I will be bumping this thread every week for the rest of my life.

Overcooked : Now - July 11
Torchlight : July 11 - July 18

The next round of free games on the Epic Games Store has been announced. This time they are giving twice as many away, as some of the titles are M rated and they don't want their younger users to be left out.

Edit: Ah dang, I misread the promotion end date as the promotion start date, so the first batch has expired. Sorry about that.

Moonlighter and This War of Mine : August 2
Alan Wake and For Honor : Now - August 9

Alan Wake is Stephen King themed horror. The gameplay is only okay, but the story, setting, theme, etc are all pretty good. For Honor is a multiplayer melee game with Vikings and Knights and Samurai fighting each other for reasons.

The Epic thing is weekly now, and I often forget to check. Still have a couple days for this week's offer though. (Missed last week's offer of GNOG though, apologies)

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden : August 15 - August 22
Hyperlight Drifter : August 15 - August 22
Fez : August 22 - August 29


Hyperlight Drifter is a neat game with some really cool pixel art/animation, but Mutant Year Zero is particularly exciting (for me). It's a turn based strategy game (XCOM) that came out just last year (December).

I'm a little late (as usual) and I really hope some of you notice this, because it's a really good offer this week. The Arkham games are very good. Don't skip.



Batman Arkham Trilogy (Asylum, City, Knight) - Now - September 26th
Lego Batman Trilogy (also 3 games apparently) - Now - September 26th
Everything - September 26th - October 3rd
Metro 2033 Redux - September 26th - October 3rd


Metro is also pretty good. Everything is quirky and weird and maybe worth 30 minutes of your life.



In non Epic news, Rockstar now has their own launcher too. For a limited time you can get GTA San Andreas for free. You can get this game for super cheap so not the biggest deal if you don't want yet another launcher.

Thanks for the heads up. I got the 6 Batman games now. It's adding to an already big pile of games that I haven't had time to play, but hey, if it's free why not grab it for later :-)

Agreed, thanks! I've heard lots of good things about the Batman Arkham trilogy but never got around to giving them a shot. Will have to do now.

:)

Freespace 2 is free on gog.com for the next 30 hours

Dang I missed that. I used to love Freespace 2, a digital copy would have been cool. I also missed last week's Epic freebie, Minit, which I had heard good things about.

Here is the next batch:

Surviving Mars : October 10 - 17
Observer : October 17-24
Alan Wake's American Nightmare : 17 - 24

Does PS4 ever get these free offers, or is this just a PC thing, these days?

Im tempted to build a PC again just to start grabbing free offers for an inadvertent future of once again going back to PC.

The vast majority of these free offers are from companies pushing their online storefronts. PSN is the only store you can access on a PS4, so there is no competition and no need to try and entice new users.

I won't say it will never happen, but outside free to play games like Fortnite it's very rare.

Do you not have a PC or laptop at all? You don't need to be able to play any of these games to create an account and redeem offers.