Free games

[Taquito]

1 hour ago, jaxa said:

I was going to say that when it became available. That's definitely a bigger title than usual and I hear people hate Civ 7 anyway.

 Civ 1 is still my favorite of them all. My first PC game. Nostalgia I guess, but being able to customize your palace, seeing people celebrating you as king or protesting furiously did something for me. I also liked how office members stood behind the Leader, much like we see in conferences today.  After that, Leaders looked like parodies to me. 

[jaxa]

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/sid-meiers-civilization-vi--platinum-edition

EGS might be being slammed, checkout took over a minute.

[Taquito]

This game needs Gargantuan Maps, with many cities it looks like a cluster mess

[chakkman]

Epic Games awakes the collector in me. I detest strategy games (and, especially build up strategy), but picked up Civ anyway.

[revelator]

Heh civ 1 was literally the first 3d game i played back in the commodore days . My taste was a bit different at that time so mostly some world builders and fantasy games. Later i threw in with doom hexen and quake and system shock then half-life and for some years the online offshots like quake 3 and counterstrike. Today im mostly into those with a good story to tell . I also played lots of diablo and wow and got quite a legend in one of the bigger wow guilds as a shaman. My char was named beefcan if any of you played that some 10 years back we probably meet.

[Taquito]

Game is pretty easy to mod  Game,Base, Assets, Gameplay, Data. open any file with Notepad and you can customize anything you want. I already made changes to player move, sight, range, tech etc. Much more enjoyable now. 

[jaxa]

EGS is giving out 3 games this week:

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/free-games

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/ghostrunner-2
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/monument-valley-2-addd02
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-battle-of-polytopia-12fed6

[chakkman]

Two nice freebies on Epic Games:

https://store.epicgames.com/de/p/amnesia-the-bunker-9d5799

https://store.epicgames.com/de/p/samorost-3-0c4489

[jaxa]

Distant Space 100% off on Steam

$1 indie space invaders game became $0

https://slickdeals.net/f/18723514-distant-space-pc-digital-download-free
https://store.steampowered.com/app/569610/Distant_Space/

[jaxa]

Stasis 100% off on GOG, Offer ends in: 2d 22h 49m 29s

https://www.gog.com/en/game/stasis
https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim

[Anderson]

Bulb boy seems really good. free until the 9th of November: https://store.steampowered.com/app/390290/Bulb_Boy/

Also this: https://store.steampowered.com/app/862740/OneShift/

 

[Anderson]

Ibidem

[jaxa]

Three games at once on Epic this week:

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/scourgebringer
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/songs-of-silence-778d86
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/zero-hour-8449a0

[Anderson]

Ibidem

[jaxa]

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 100% off on Steam

https://slickdeals.net/f/18848197-warhammer-vermintide-2-pc-digital-download-free
https://store.steampowered.com/app/552500/Warhammer_Vermintide_2/

Was previously free, you may already have it.

[Anderson]

Good grab on Epic.

[Zerush]

Diffusion

Diffusion is the first-person  shooter with an extensive singleplayer story (8-12 hours) and a multiplayer deathmatch mode, running on Xash3D-FWGS engine.

You, James Smith (served in SWAT for a decade with no failed ops), on vacation and driving your car to some nice place, to take a break from your usual work routines. Driving on a deserted road somewhere in Utah, the car breaks down. With miles of nothing behind, J. decides to go forward and stumbles upon an abandoned rock/sand processing factory with just one yawning guard sitting there. Pointed by the guard, J. walks behind the factory to find the phone. When he comes back, he only sees two army trucks and the dead guard… J.'s curiosity leads him inside the factory only to find that this place is absolutely not what it seems to be…

CPU:    Intel Core 2 Quad or similar
GPU:    Any GPU with OpenGL 3.0 support (Nvidia 9800 GTX or similar);
1 Gb of VRAM
RAM:    1 Gb

HDD:    6 Gb

Standalone, Windows/Linux

 

[Anderson]

Expensive Hogwarts game on Epic for free now.

[chakkman]

Oh wow. Ill' surely get that one. Thanks.  

[jaxa]

I think daily Epic giveaways are expected from around Dec 18 to Dec 31. Here's a leaked list of possible games:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Epic-Games-Store-leak-reveals-nearly-300-worth-of-free-game-giveaway-plans-in-December-2025.1184163.0.html

Hogwarts Legacy	December 11	$59.99	$59.99
Jurassic World: Evolution 2	December 18	$59.99	$14.99
Desperados 3	December 19	$39.99	$9.99
Total War: Warhammer	December 20	$59.99	$14.99
Tropico 5	December 21	$19.99	$7.99
Chicken Police - Paint it Red!	December 22	$19.99	$19.99
Loop Hero	December 23	$14.99	$2.99
Lego Batman	December 24	$19.99	$2.99
Commander Keen	December 25	$3.99	$0.79
Farming Simulator 2022	December 26	$29.99	$29.99
Slime Rancher 2	December 27	$29.99	$17.99
Terraria	December 28	$9.99	$9.99
Detroit: Become Human	December 29	$39.99	$39.99
Mortal Kombat 11	December 30	$49.99	$49.99
Red Dead Redemption 2	December 31	$59.99	$14.99

I never could have expected a Keen Dreams (aka Keen 3.5) Definitive Edition when I played that decades ago. The reviews are negative and the link goes to Steam... because it's not on Epic. So take this with a grain of salt. A reviewer says to check out this version instead: https://keenwiki.shikadi.net/wiki/Keen_Dreams_Gold_Edition

Edited December 12, 2025 by jaxa

[Anderson]

Free indie game on Steam through December 15th. I like this developers' games and I previously played some of his other titles. He usually makes David Lynch-type mild horrors. Thus I recommend inserting this title in your collection as well.

Edited December 13, 2025 by Anderson

[I.C.H.I.]

23 hours ago, jaxa said:

Red Dead Redemption 2 December 31 $59.99 $14.99

Every time people posted such lists with this game in them they were entirely fake. So it's either made with trolling in mind or just someone's deluded wishful thinking.

[Zerush]

2 hours ago, I.C.H.I. said:

Every time people posted such lists with this game in them they were entirely fake. So it's either made with trolling in mind or just someone's deluded wishful thinking.

I don't think so, there are free games, which are always free and Giveaways, which are for download for free only for a certain hours or days, often also only in certain countries.

In Steam you'll find tons of free games, also some in GOG, almost always in Itch.io, there apart without the need of an account or desktop client crap (my prefered site to search for), some in Indiegala and DigiPen Game Gallery and Digipen Showcase,

 

Edited December 14, 2025 by Zerush

[chakkman]

11 hours ago, I.C.H.I. said:

Every time people posted such lists with this game in them they were entirely fake. So it's either made with trolling in mind or just someone's deluded wishful thinking.

They're actually true most of the time. IMO, it's rather fake marketing. Companies "leaking" information to some self-centered influencers. Win-win, for the companies and the influencers, and, people seem to like that kind of shady marketing as well.

Epic Games spent hundreds of millions on games they can offer for free in the past, because they wanted to launch a big attack on Steam, and acquire some similar market share. Which they will never achieve, of course, but, I'll take the freebies anyway.  

Edited December 14, 2025 by chakkman

[I.C.H.I.]

49 minutes ago, chakkman said:

They're actually true most of the time.

I feel like people don't see what I said, lol. This is not the first time I see a list like this with Red Dead Redemption 2 included, on reddit it was done several times during such events and every time there was no RDR2 as a giveaway including the rest of the games.