![]() ![]() Epic is still paying the developers and millions of people are getting sizeable libraries of free games. The free games, however, everyone can get behind. The first is highly controversial: the company has been paying developers to make their games Epic Games Store exclusives, riling those who prefer to play games on Steam with features like cloud saves. These are Epic's twin weapons for building its presence as a retailer as quickly as possible. Next up are For Honor and Alan Wake, both of which are excellent. Usually, when someone says something like "get a free game every week", you have to make some compromises on quality. Some of the older ones might not have commanded a huge price at retail if they weren't free, but it's still impressive the way a given player could have built out a reasonably impressive PC library without spending a single dollar, not even on subscriptions. And they're impressive games: titles like Subnautica, Limbo, Super Meat Boy, Slime Rancher, Oxenfree, The Witness, World of Goo and more. ![]() In total, Epic has given out 23 free games, all of which you had to claim during their respective windows to avoid missing out on them. Two are free-to-play, one I got a review code for, but the rest were free courtest of Epic Games, and that's not even the complete list of games that the developer has given out in its brief existence: there were some that I didn't pick up because I already had them on other platforms, though now I realize that was a weird move. And it's been an impressive showing so far: I've got 14 games on the Epic Store right now, of which I only paid money for one. Epic has been aggressive about giving out free games since the service launch, leveraging the company's giant pile of Fortnite cash to establish itself as a genuine Steam competitor. This is not because I've bought a bunch of games on the Epic Games Store, mind you.
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