I’ve got so many amazing free games from Epic over the years. When I grew up I’d have to play the same shitty demos over and over again because I couldn’t afford full games. Now I have hundreds of high quality games for free. This is truly the golden age of gaming. Being a kid right now must be magical.
As an aside, I grew up playing games like Jazz Jackrabbit, Epic Pinball, and Unreal. It’s so cool to see how they have continued to evolve. Especially the Unreal engine, which is basically witchcraft.
This is me every week. I have most of the free games in Steam so I’d rather play them there. And the ones I don’t, I can’t be bothered opening another launcher to play them.
At this point I don’t know why I grab them.
Little known fact: Many Games in Epic are actually DRM free, so you can simply add them to Steam manually: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_Epic_Games_Store
Or maybe you can try to use GOG Galaxy, which combines most launchers into one?
I am fellow enjoyer of Subnautica, GTA V, Watch dogs, Control, Train Simulator, Elder Scroll Online
So many people complain about epic and it’s launcher. Yeah, it’s not great but it works just fine and with all the free games you can claim, it’s just crazy not to have a account for it.
Every week 1 to 2 games to claim and in December for like 2 weeks straight you get extra games to claim.
Who cares it’s a repeat or a less good game, it’s free. Try it out and maybe you’ll find your next favorite game!
And if you’re not interested in having their launcher on your system, there’s an open source alternative called Heroic.
You can use it on windows? I’m using it on my steam deck to have access to prime, gog and epic.
It looks like a good alternative.
I totally agree. After all this time the store is still lacking very heavily.
I’m going to give the heroic client a try, works great on my steam deck.
I would just make a account and claim the free games through the website, their always on the frontpage to claim.
But to each their own ofcourse.
You can use heroic, it is pretty good and supports epic, gog and amazon games, also setups proton/wine for you if you are not on win
I fully agree. There was some controversy about exclusives, and I get it, but the drama was completely disproportional to the issue. It turns out that console fanboys have evolved into launcher fanboys. I’m grateful for free games and an amazing games engine.
There have been a few instances where I was excited for the free games that came out.
One game they have given out a few times is called “Enter the Gungeon”
This is one of the best roguelite games I’ve ever played. I have hundreds of hours in this game.
Please play it for a while if you have not.
Subnautica, Yooka-Laylee, gta5, dishonored, they gave away a lot of good stuff.
Not sure if I got subnautica. There was a crpg series they gave away. I forget the name, but i was about the buy it on steam and recognized the artwork. I checked on Epic and sure enough I had the triology.
Shit I must have missed that, I’ve seen it maby times on the Steam store and contemplated buying it
Frickin’ amen to that! I long got it on my switch, first digital than physical. Claimed it for free on ps+ and epic.
Between all of them I have 1000+ hours in the game and it’s still fun to play.
Im ready to give mods a try. Im on Linux, so I’m not sure how difficult it will be. But I’m pretty confident I can get it working. In fact, I might have tried in the past.
