If You're Not Using The Epic Games Store, You're Really Missing Out
I first heard about the Epic Games Store when it first launched a little over a year ago. I'd downloaded it, claimed a free game (Super Meat Boy) and just never really used it again. I just downloaded their launcher again and wow.... have I missed out! They have new free games for you pretty much every week. You simply have to add them to your collection and they're yours to keep forever. I figured that the free games that they offered would be just terrible games, but yet again I was wrong. For the next 24 hours you can get both Faeria and Assassin's Creed: Syndicate for free. They may not be the newest games out, but they're not bad games especially when you consider that they're free.
Most people have heard about Fortnite and they either love it or hate it. It's the game that really put Epic on the map in a big way. Even if it isn't your cup of tea though, Epic's free game selections are nothing to sneeze at. They've given away some really good games over the past year. I'm actually bummed out that I missed some of them because they're titles that I would have loved to have owned.
Instead of listing the games that really stand out to me as being incredible games, I've decided to just list all of them here to give you an idea of the kind of games that they've given away over the last year or so. To give credit where credit is due though, I got this list from here.
If you're a gamer, you've probably heard of quite a few of these titles.
Without further ado, here's the full list of games that they've given away over the past year with timestamps of when they were available:
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (February 13-20, 2020)
Aztez (February 13-20, 2020)
Carcassonne (February 6-13, 2020)
Ticket to Ride (February 6-13, 2020)
Pandemic (February 6-13, 2020)
Farming Simulator 19 (January 30-February 6, 2020)
The Bridge (January 23-30, 2020)
Horace (January 16-23, 2020)
Sundered Eldritch Edition (January 9-16, 2020)
Steep, Darksiders I Warmastered Edition, and Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition (January 1-9, 2020)
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair (December 31, 2019-January 1, 2020)
Hello Neighbor (December 30-31, 2019)
The Talos Principle (December 29-30, 2019)
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun (December 29-29, 2019)
Hyper Light Drifter (December 27-28, 2019)
Faster Than Light (December 26-27, 2019)
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator (December 25-26, 2019)
Celeste (December 24-25, 2019)
Ape Out (December 23-24, 2019)
Little Inferno (December 22-23, 2019)
Superhot (December 21-22, 2019)
TowerFall Ascension (December 20-21, 2019)
Into The Breach (December 19-20, 2019)
The Escapists and The Wolf Among Us (December 12-19, 2019)
Jotun: Valhalla Edition (December 6-12, 2019)
Rayman Legends (November 29-December 6, 2019)
Bad North (November 21-29, 2019)
The Messenger (November 14-21, 2019)
Nuclear Throne and Ruiner (November 7-14, 2019)
SOMA and Costume Quest (October 31-November 7, 2019)
Layers of Fear and Q.U.B.E. 2 (October 24-31, 2019)
Observer and Alan Wake's American Nightmare (October 17-24, 2019)
Surviving Mars and DLCs (Space Race and Resupply Pack) (October 10-17, 2019)
Minit (October 3-10, 2019)
Everything and Metro 2033: Redux (September 26-October 3, 2019)
Batman Arkham Collection (three games) and Lego Batman Trilogy (September 19-26, 2019)
Conarium (September 12-19, 2019)
The End is Nigh and Abzu (September 5-12, 2019)
Celeste and Inside (August 29-September 5, 2019)
Fez (August 22-29, 2019)
Hyper Light Drifter and Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden (August 15-22, 2019)
GNOG (August 8-15, 2019)
For Honor and Alan Wake (August 2-9, 2019)
Moonlighter and This War of Mine (July 25-August 2, 2019)
LIMBO (July 17-25, 2019)
Torchlight (July 11-18, 2019)
Overcooked! (July 4-11, 2019)
Last Day of June (June 27-July 4, 2019)
Rebel Galaxy (June 20-27, 2019)
Enter The Gungeon (June 13-20, 2019)
Kingdom: New Lands (June 6-13, 2019)
City of Brass (May 30-June 6, 2019)
RiME (May 23-30, 2019)
Stories Untold (May 16-30, 2019)
World of Goo (May 2-16, 2019)
Transistor (April 18-May 2, 2019)
The Witness (April 4-18, 2019)
Oxenfree (March 21-April 4, 2019)
Slime Rancher (March 7-21, 2019)
Thimbleweed Park (February 21-March 7, 2019)
Axiom Verge (February 7-21, 2019)
Jackbox Party Pack (January 24-February 7, 2019)
What Remains of Edith Finch (January 11-24, 2019)
Super Meat Boy (December 28, 2018-January 10, 2019)
Subnautica (December 12-27, 2018)
Do yourself a favor and start using the Epic Games Store. If nothing else, do it for the great free games that you'll get.
One thing that I've noticed is that it seems like for a lot of games, they're actually cheaper on the Epic Games Store than on Steam. It seems like when there's competition, the consumers ultimately win!
Sure, Epic hands out free games a lot but I've used Steam for around 6-7 years now, I've got plenty of games there, and feel like having many different programs with the same features and point to be a little pointless.
Plus you can often get free games for Steam from Humble Bundle, and Steam has sometimes put some games free to claim during a certain period.
Also I remember a site called steamgifts that I haven't used for years now (simply forgot about it) where people put their unused Steam keys up for giveaway and it automatically chooses a winner whom the giver has to send the Steam key or as a gift from their inventory. It's mostly legit. I won the game [PROTOTYPE] from there once.
I've used Steam for around four years at this point and I have a lot of games on there as well. I love Humble Bundle and have written about it in past articles and even mentioned it in some recent articles on here. Humble Bundle games aren't exactly free though.
It used to be where you could pay as little as a penny for a game bundle, but they've since changed that to where you have to spend at least a dollar. I used Humble Bundle before they even tied in Steam keys to it. I still have about 5 games from years back that are actually in my Humble Bundle Library and not on Steam.
I seemed to have written a lot recently about online platforms for PC games. Epic games is great for free games and sales do tend to usually be better than Steam from what I've seen. Steam is the gold standard and 90% of the games that I own are on there. Humble Bundle is just awesome. GOG I love almost as much as Humble.
To get really cheap games, buying Steam keys from third party sellers is technically the cheapest way to go and that's how I've gotten many of the games that I have in my library. In my experience, they're usually less than half the price of what it sells for on Steam and more often than not, much cheaper than even that.
Yeah, true, but I meant that Humble Bundle sometimes gives games away for free like it did with GRID, GRID 2, F1 a while ago.
I agree, third party sellers tend to give better prices than Steam itself. There are also websites comparing prices from all sellers for users to find the best current price. :P
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I actually didn't know that. Usually once a week, I like to go on Humble and see what bundles they have. I missed some really good bundles from like a year ago.
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