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.
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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?
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.
Is it a launcher-launcher like Playnite and GOG? Is it better?
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.
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.
Yeah, works perfectly fine on Windows.
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
Does it support Steam? Only launcher I want gone.
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.
I now check Gog Galaxy (linked to steam and epic) before any purshase. Still buy bundles I already have.
Shit I must have missed that, I've seen it maby times on the Steam store and contemplated buying it
Such a wonderful game!
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.
Through a mod I practiced >!The rats boxing match part!<
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.
I am fellow enjoyer of Subnautica, GTA V, Watch dogs, Control, Train Simulator, Elder Scroll Online
This is me most weeks. Thanks for the reminder to claim them this week. :D
Cheeky self-plug, but if you join !freegames@feddit.uk you can see all the freebie notifications as they appear
Well you keep their user stats high, so they should thank you
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.
I have a catch all email, so I create an account every week for no good reason. Anyone else?
Why?
Because I can give the credentials to someone who want's to play the game and I don't give access to all of my games.
I even do that with games I buy. You hacked my diablo3 account? Bad luck. But you don't have access to all my other games. I can even resell the whole game account when I'm done playing.
Don't get why my inital post was downvoted. I'm not saying that you should do that. Was just asking. But ok.
So you have a different account for each game? This seems like a lot of effort for little return
Yes. I really don't think it's an effort really. I mean I just press register and enter some_unique_name@mydomain.com. This takes a minute. It's not that I have to create a new emailaccount or something. And I can even remember them, because the names follow a pattern. As I said it all goes in a single catch-all inbox where I can easily filter by adress. And if I get spam on such an adress they either got hacked or sold my data. Origin for example leaked my email adress for Dragon Age. I also give out unique emailadresses everywhere I need to give one. I got spam on an email I gave exclusively to an ebook distributor. When this happens I just block this adress. I do this because it's no effort at all. If we meet I could say to you: my email is yourname@mydomain.com and you get out your phone, send me an email and I recieve it. No work at all on my side.