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Free PC Games! Tropico 5, Brigador
Jam Warrior
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We live in a world of many competing PC game store fronts and one of the results of this is many limited time to claim free games. Epic are the biggest proponents of this, giving away one or two games every week, but all the others have their moments. They come out so often and sometimes for such a limited time that I feel if I take my eyes of the news sites for a few days I'll miss a chance for something.
So bookmark this thread for alerts on new stuff to grab, post to add anything you find, and keep throwing things into to that ever growing backlog.
As a note, the intention of this thread is to highlight the limited time entirely freebies. Not simply reduced prices or more long term free stuff or demos.
So bookmark this thread for alerts on new stuff to grab, post to add anything you find, and keep throwing things into to that ever growing backlog.
As a note, the intention of this thread is to highlight the limited time entirely freebies. Not simply reduced prices or more long term free stuff or demos.
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Abzu is a very nice time. Chilled diving, exploring type thing. Well recommended for a freebie.
And Sega have put Sonic 2 up for a limited freebie on Steam for Sega's 60th anniversary. Grab by Oct 19th.
A bunch of 'mini-games' over the next few days on Steam, but also NiGHTs into Dreams for free to keep on Steam if you're willing to handover your email.
https://www.sega60th.com/
I could only get Golden Axed and Streets of Kamurocho to work on my PC, though. Armor of Heroes failed to start, while Endless Zone crashed after the title screen, even when I bottomed out all the settings in the options.
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Don't Make Love is free on Steam in memory of the developer's passing. Description:
its sporadic. the GOG thread usually sees a bump when something is being given away but its easy to miss them amongst news and "new" releases.
You can still grab 'em by using the steam:// protocol
steam://install/1368440
steam://install/1368450
steam://install/1368430
steam://install/1368460
Will have to manually c/p them into the browser address bar since the forum doesn't want to make 'em into links...
Main problem was that the other Busters' AI wasn't worth much in boss battles, so often you'd be running around pulling them back to their feet after they'd been knocked down by ghosts.
You could also -not- do that, but you were functionally immortal as long as there was someone still standing to pull the rest of the team to their feet.
So unless you could juke all the damage and ghosts, you sort of want them up to assist you as well.
Otherwise I had fun there I think.
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/kingdom-classic-free-game
Warframe/Steam: NFyt
Bullet hell/chunky pixels/horror/typing?
If you want a new Dungeon Keeper, you want War for the Overworld.
Elite Dangerous feels like kind of a major giveaway? I guess it's been out several years now.
No reason not try it for free, other than it being on the execrable Epic service.
I have yet to even install their client ever. I just keep claiming free stuff through their webpage.
i don't trust them at all to keep any financial info safe so don't see myself ever buying anything from them.
The usual complaints I've seen are on the storefront side and that Steam has a lot of features there Epic hasn't replicated.
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About the only actually beneficial thing they've done is offer developers/publishers a significantly better cut of profits than Steam. But again, I have zero trust that Epic will hold to this; they'll crank that percentage up for new games the moment they think they've captured enough of the market, they don't give a shit about actually benefiting developers.
Not much of that applies if you're just picking up the free stuff, though. I guess Epic could lock you out of it later, but you've already played it by then and you'll be able to get it cheap in other places if you want it in a Steam library or something.
Thanks for posting that. This battle for wesnoth game looks super cool. Can't believe I've never heard of it.
I grew up having a different icon for every game, so this never really bothered me
Edit: timed exclusives don't bother me much either
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Oh man, me too. I miss those days sometimes. Booting up the PC and seeing all those glorious windows 95 game icons.
Free games are fine, though. I try to not put my credit card on there. I'll buy keys or use PayPal.
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What gets me are all those DRM-free installers I've downloaded from random things like Humble Trove and Itch.io giveaways. I can see my combined Epic, Steam, and GOG libraries in the (excellent) Playnite launcher, but when I use Windows Explorer to browse in my "Game Installers" directory, I don't know what I'm looking at half the time.
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Some pretty big ones next week though!