Epic Games Store Offers an Unknown Free Game!
Odin (181)Each week, check out my latest article for the new hit game or add-on released for free from the Epic Games Store! This time, however, Epic is keeping quiet about the game they’re releasing. We don’t know what game will be released for free, and that has us very excited!
Whatever the new game is, it will replace Godfall Challenger Edition and Prison Architect, which are currently free to download until December 16. And could this be just the beginning? Dealabs member Billbill-Kun (who has correctly leaked releases in the past) seems to think that Epic plans to release a new free game daily between December 16th-30th. That’s a pretty big deal!
What is the Epic Games Store?
The Epic Games Store has been around for a while, the lesser-known alternative to Steam, the nearly-ubiquitous platform for game purchases since it launched in 2003. But, where Steam originally existed and launched to promote Valve games, Epic Games Store launched in 2018 and quickly rose to success on the Fortnite franchise. At the time of Epic’s launch, Steam took a dramatic 30% cut from the sales of video games through their platform! This hurt both game designers and users, just wasn’t very nice. But the folks behind Epic realized something excellent: they could take a much lower cut and still have a profitable business. This led them to fast domination of the indie market, as small publishers flocked to the far better terms offered by Epic.
Mega Discounts
Epic Games Store offers some seriously incredible discounts on a regular basis, in addition to all the normal discounts one would expect on Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the usual holidays. But the most exciting is their weekly free game or add-on, which simply harpoons all competitors.
When I first heard about this free game, I thought that can’t be real. They must only offer tiny indie games. Not at all, dear reader. Not. At. All. Epic frequently lists unbelievable A-lister games on their weekly deal, as well as sometimes offer two free games instead of one. In addition, just because a studio is smaller doesn’t mean the games it makes aren’t impressive. I’ve picked up some of my favorite new games, for free, from this platform, and most of them have been made by smaller studios (or as side-projects for teams from big studios).
