Gaming on no budget - Free games

Pankapu

Steam
Free to keep - Offer expires 2024-12-18

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Hopefully this counts, no hidden charges here.

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The Whispered World: Special Edition

Gog
Free to keep - Offer expires 2024-12-15

ETA: It looks like gog are doing an advent calendar thing, so there might be another free game every day until Christmas New Year.

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Epic have started their end-of-year “mystery” giveaways (they don’t reveal what they are ahead of time), starting with The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria, a multiplayer survival mine-builder. (Rock, Paper, Shotgun called it “solid cozy survival fun for a group of pals.”) That’s free until the 19th, then they’ll be doing daily free games until Jan 2 or so, a mix of smaller indie games with some newer AAA titles mixed in.
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/free-games

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That’s relatively new, isn’t it? Didn’t expect that to be free anywhere for anytime soon

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Another free steam game, from Fanatical

Riot - Civil Unrest

Steam
Free to keep - Offer expires 2024-12-15

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Yeah, on PC it came out just over a year ago. Epic does tend to include newer/bigger games in their end-of-year giveaways, especially games that have multiplayer (where having an active player base encourages further sales) or a lot of DLC (where publishers can afford to give away the base game and still make money).

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Epic appears to have kicked off their end-of-year giveaway where they start handing out one game a day instead of one a week. Today’s offering is Vampire Survivors, which is an absolutely fantastic game I recommend picking up somewhere even if you don’t get it from Epic.

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Distant Space 2

Steam
Free to keep - Offer expires 2024-12-24

Black Desert

Steam
Free to keep - Offer expires 2025-01-06

Chicken Assassin: Reloaded
GOG
Free to keep - Offer expires 2024-12-22

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This game caused me to have “dog” as one of my categories in my Steam year-in-review chart. It’s adorbs.

Epic’s free Christmas game is Control:
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/control

I just got around to playing it earlier this year and it’s just a great game. One stage, in particular, is my all-time favorite moment in a video game. Can’t recommend it enough (along with the Alan Wake games and Quantum Break for the whole Remedy Connected Universe experience).

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Free until 12/30. Expired

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Free until 1/3

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https://www.xda-developers.com/best-open-source-games-windows/

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Mini Thief

Steam
Free to keep - Offer expires 2025-01-24

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Technically it’s not a game, but RPG Maker VX Ace is free on Steam. Be careful to choose the free option, not the 95% off one.

RPG Maker VX Ace

Steam

Free to keep - Offer expires 2025-02-10

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