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Every. Single. Week. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Jazz Jackrabbit takes me baaack!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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?

https://www.gog.com/galaxy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Man, they gave some really doozy though! If you haven't played Control, it's freaking awesome!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I am fellow enjoyer of Subnautica, GTA V, Watch dogs, Control, Train Simulator, Elder Scroll Online

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Star Wars Battlefront II boiiiii

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What?! Damn I missed that one

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (13 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And if you're not interested in having their launcher on your system, there's an open source alternative called Heroic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, works perfectly fine on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Is it a launcher-launcher like Playnite and GOG? Is it better?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It's a third-party launcher for Epic, GoG and Amazon. It's way less resource heavy than GoG or Epic and better in terms of privacy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Their store is abhorrent to navigate last I tried it. And no Linux default client. A no from me. They don't want me so they won't have me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Does it support Steam? Only launcher I want gone.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Subnautica, Yooka-Laylee, gta5, dishonored, they gave away a lot of good stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I now check Gog Galaxy (linked to steam and epic) before any purshase. Still buy bundles I already have.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Shit I must have missed that, I've seen it maby times on the Steam store and contemplated buying it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Such a wonderful game!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Through a mod I practiced >!The rats boxing match part!<

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure why I didn't think about that. It's hard enough to get to the mouse just to quickly try to learn the buttons and then die.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Control was sick though, (edit) I even bought the DLC for it. And they’ve had a bunch of free games that I had bought and played before they put them up for free.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Well you keep their user stats high, so they should thank you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

using epic games

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

They've given out some fantastic games. I had a blast playing Fez, A Short Hike, Alan Wake and more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is me most weeks. Thanks for the reminder to claim them this week. :D

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Cheeky self-plug, but if you join [email protected] you can see all the freebie notifications as they appear

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've played a bunch of Epic free games.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Hell yeah. They have some good ones.

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