Gog is giving away free games as part of their summer sale. I don't care as much about older games so probably won't notice/post all of them but the first is Sanitarium, an old horror adventure game that I remember being a fairly big deal back in the day.
The last free Epic Store Game as part of their summer sale is Manhunter. It's a very by the numbers open world game where you play as a monster shark that swims around eating and wrecking things. It can be fun in short doses even if the gameplay loop itself feels a little shallow.
Their free game schedule is now going back to normal (no more mystery games). Next week's game is Supraland, which I've heard is supposed to be good, but don't actually know what it is myself.
Ark: Survival Evolved is currently free on Steam (plugging the sequel)
Good catch, I almost missed that.
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is the next free game from Gog. Very good metroidvania style game.
Capcom Arcade Stadium: STREET FIGHTER II - The World Warrior is free on consoles and Steam. I think it's part of a collection of old games sold piecemeal as dlc.
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I don't know this is the full list or if they will add more later but Amazon has listed a group of games they will be giving away for Prime members as part of Prime Day. This doesn't go live until later in July.
Mass Effect Legendary Edition
GRID Legends
Need for Speed Heat
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Star Wars: Republic Commando
They also have a larger list of indie games they will be giving away leading up to Prime Day. There are a lot of them and I only recognize a few, so I'll put it in a spoiler tag.
Spoiler for free games:
Epic Games: Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 and Game of Thrones: The Board Game (digital version) are the featured free games from June 23rd-30th.
The next free Gog game is Flashback, an old sci fi adventure that just announced a sequel.
The free Amazon Prime games I mentioned go live today and only today. Mass Effect Legendary Edition, GRID, Jedi Knight, etc.
Edit: Note that Mass Effect, GRID, and Need for Speed require Origin. This isn't a surprise by itself but instead of giving codes they also require you to take extra steps to link your EA and Amazon accounts. The other games are redeemed and launched from Amazon's own launcher and don't require extra steps.
Last edited by Wool; July 12th, 2022 at 09:46 AM.
This month Amazon Prime is giving away Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor on Gog, Football Manager 2022 on Epic Games Store, and Assassin's Creed Origin on Ubisoft Connect.
Epic Games Store is giving away Shadow of the Tomb Raider until September 8th. Not sure what else, their offerings have been uninteresting to me lately and I sometimes forget to check.
This week's Epic Games Store freebies are decent. September 22-29.
ARK: Survival Evolved
Gloomhaven
Gloomhaven is a turn based strategy rpg, apparently based on a board game. I haven't tried it myself but I remember a lot of praise for it during it's early access phase. Seems like a good get. ARK is that survival game with dinosaurs in it.
Amazon Prime's "free" games for October, or at least, the three I find worth bumping this thread for:
Middle-Earth: Shadow of War - on GoG
Total War: Warhammer II - on Epic Game Store
Fallout 76: The Pitt - on Microsoft Store
Note that Shadow of War is the sequel to Shadow of Mordor, the game they gave away last month. Don't sleep on it thinking they are giving the same game away. This game got trashed for it's excessive monetization when it came out but it's been cleaned up and is an overall fun, if bloated, experience.
Epic has Evoland Legendary Edition, and Fallout 3 Game of the Year edition, for the next few days.
Sims 4 is free on Steam.
Looks like Sims 4 is free to play on every platform. Or at least, the base version is. They've still got like $800+ of DLC for you to buy. It not being free to play was probably costing them more money than selling it was.
Epic Game Store
Nov 17 - Nov 24: Dark Deity
Nov 17 - Nov 24: Evil Dead: The Game
Nov 24 - Dec 1: Star Wars: Squadrons
Dark Deity is a Fire Emblem inspired strategy game. Evil Dead is the asynchronous multiplayer game from the Evil Dead franchise. I think it has a campaign but multiplayer is the main design focus. Squadrons is another multiplayer focused game, inspired by the old X-Wing and Tie Fighter games. It has a single player campaign that I thought was okay. As a game I didn't find it that interesting but I enjoyed it for the Star Wars stuff in it.
Thanks for keeping these rolling. I don't check the Epic store myself, unless I happen to see something interesting on the lists you put up :-)Originally Posted by Wool
This week's Epic Games Store games are Saints Row IV: Re-Elected and Wildcat Gun Machine.
Next week's game is listed as a Mystery game. There is a good chance this will kickoff their annual tradition of giving away one free games every day through Christmas.
I typically don't remember to check either except when I have an idle moment and can't find anything interesting to watch or read.
GOG Winter Sale has started and they tend to give away a few games during limited windows during these sales. They tend to be old games or small/obscure games so are easy to miss/skip.
They are starting with Ghost of a Tail. It's some kind of medieval action rpg in which you play as a mouse. I've never tried it myself as I couldn't get it to run when it was on Game Pass, but people seem generally positive on it.
EPIC's free mystery games for crimbo has kicked off with Bloons TD6
Kind of dull pick to kick off their Winter event but I'm not complaining.
I'm enjoying it - but there again I have spent a lot of time playing TD5 on Steam (it's free - and there are browser versions as well) and my mobile
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