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[–] JasSmith@kbin.social 37 points 1 year 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.

[–] Chewget@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Jazz Jackrabbit takes me baaack!

[–] unabatedshagie@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year 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.

[–] sverit@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] cicadagen@ani.social 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] misterundercoat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Star Wars Battlefront II boiiiii

[–] secret301@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

What?! Damn I missed that one

[–] MrGerrit@feddit.nl 11 points 1 year 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!

[–] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] MrGerrit@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, works perfectly fine on Windows.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] Twink@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year 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.

[–] MrGerrit@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] calzone_gigante@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 1 year 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

[–] Hyperi0n@lemmy.film 1 points 1 year ago

Does it support Steam? Only launcher I want gone.

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[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year 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.

[–] calzone_gigante@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] Muddydog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] iByteABit@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Such a wonderful game!

[–] MrGerrit@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] MrGerrit@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] kemsat@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Shiki@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

using epic games

[–] centof@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Cheeky self-plug, but if you join !freegames@feddit.uk you can see all the freebie notifications as they appear

[–] Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've played a bunch of Epic free games.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah. They have some good ones.

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