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I downloaded that but doesn't seem to work on my pc. Nothing happens when I run it :(

 

Pikuniku is now on epic. :) RCT 3 is fun. Been playing it with my 6 year old since it came out on epic last Thursday. It's a lot like the sims but with a purpose.

 

Epic Games has Costume Quest 2 and Layers of Fear 2... Next week it'll have Blair Witch and Ghostbusters

 

I have to ask... how the hell are they funding this? And why are they so desperate to attract customers to their platform? Does it require you run some kind of spyware or something? Is the "epic games app" the new windows 10? Highly suspicious of free stuff these days. If there isn't a product, you are the product.

 

Typically it's the older version of the stuff when new version is about to be released or whatnot... or indie games. Epic owns a game engine so they encourage indie devs to produce, and the store is one way to get that stuff out there...

They afford it since from producer's end it's just copy/paste. The 'real' cost is nothing for them even though they might say retail price of game is whatever. It's no different than when you buy some of those computer magazines that have a demo version of something or old version of new version that they want to sell you, even if at discounted price... it's all advertising. Yes, you are the product, but if you just pay zero and pick up the weekly freebies, they don't care... at some point you'll mention some game to someone else, like in this thread, or social media or in person, so it works like old school commercials for them. I just bookmark the epic store as one of my browser's start page and visit on Thursdays to get the new one that week. Currently not installing too many Teen or Mature games since my kid is a lot younger than that. Eventually though I'll have a gigantic library for her to play when she is old enough since they let you keep the freebies just like a real purchase. The stuff like GTA V and top blockbuster games are far and few between.

To give you an idea... here's a copy of my purchase history over there... like I said not a lot of top notch stuff, but some of it's mighty fun!

DATE DESCRIPTION PRICE STATUS
10/22/20 Layers of Fear 2 $0.00 Purchased
10/22/20 Costume Quest 2 $0.00 Purchased
10/15/20 Kingdom New Lands $0.00 Purchased
10/15/20 Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs $0.00 Purchased
10/10/20 3 Out of 10: Season One $0.00 Purchased
10/10/20 Heroes & Generals WWII $0.00 Purchased
10/10/20 Rocket League® $0.00 Purchased
10/10/20 Rogue Company $0.00 Purchased
10/10/20 Star Trek Online $0.00 Purchased
10/08/20 Rising Storm 2: Vietnam $0.00 Purchased
10/08/20 ABZU $0.00 Purchased
10/01/20 Pikuniku $0.00 Purchased
09/24/20 RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Complete Edition $0.00 Purchased
09/17/20 Watch Dogs 2 $0.00 Purchased
09/17/20 Stick It To The Man! $0.00 Purchased
09/17/20 Football Manager 2020 $0.00 Purchased
09/12/20 Paladins $0.00 Purchased
09/12/20 Delores: A Thimbleweed Park mini-adventure $0.00 Purchased
09/12/20 3 out of 10, EP 5: "The Rig Is Up!" $0.00 Purchased
09/10/20 Where The Water Tastes Like Wine $0.00 Purchased
09/10/20 Railway Empire $0.00 Purchased
09/06/20 Diabotical $0.00 Purchased
09/06/20 Spellbreak $0.00 Purchased
08/28/20 Unreal Engine $0.00 Purchased
08/27/20 Shadowrun Collection $0.00 Purchased
08/27/20 HITMAN $0.00 Purchased
08/25/20 3 out of 10, EP 3: "Pivot Like A Champion" $0.00 Purchased
08/20/20 God's Trigger $0.00 Purchased
08/20/20 Enter The Gungeon $0.00 Purchased
08/13/20 The Alto Collection $0.00 Purchased
08/13/20 Remnant: From the Ashes $0.00 Purchased
08/07/20 Wilmot's Warehouse $0.00 Purchased
08/07/20 3 Out of 10 Ep 1 Welcome to Shovelworks $0.00 Purchased
08/04/20 Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP $0.00 Purchased
08/04/20 Barony $0.00 Purchased
08/04/20 20XX $0.00 Purchased
07/23/20 Tacoma $0.00 Purchased
07/23/20 Next Up Hero $0.00 Purchased
07/17/20 Torchlight II $0.00 Purchased
07/11/20 The Escapists 2 $0.00 Purchased
07/11/20 Lifeless Planet: Premier Edition $0.00 Purchased
07/11/20 Killing Floor 2 $0.00 Purchased
07/03/20 Hue $0.00 Purchased
07/03/20 Trackmania $0.00 Purchased
06/26/20 Conan Exiles ModKit $0.00 Purchased
06/25/20 Stranger Things 3: The Game $0.00 Purchased
06/25/20 AER Memories of Old $0.00 Purchased
06/18/20 Pathway $0.00 Purchased
06/11/20 ARK Valguero $0.00 Purchased
06/11/20 ARK Crystal Isles $0.00 Purchased
06/11/20 ARK The Center $0.00 Purchased
06/11/20 ARK Ragnarok $0.00 Purchased
06/11/20 ARK Editor $0.00 Purchased
06/11/20 SAMURAI SHODOWN NEOGEO COLLECTION $0.00 Purchased
06/11/20 ARK: Survival Evolved $0.00 Purchased
06/05/20 Overcooked $0.00 Purchased
05/29/20 Sludge Life $0.00 Purchased
05/28/20 Borderlands: The Handsome Collection $0.00 Purchased
05/22/20 Sid Meier's Civilization VI $0.00 Purchased
05/17/20 SMITE $0.00 Purchased
05/14/20 Grand Theft Auto V $0.00 Purchased
05/08/20 Death Coming $0.00 Purchased
04/30/20 Crashlands $0.00 Purchased
04/30/20 Amnesia: The Dark Descent $0.00 Purchased
04/28/20 SMITE Epic Starter Bundle $0.00 Purchased
04/23/20 For The King $0.00 Purchased
04/16/20 Wheels of Aurelia $0.00 Purchased
04/16/20 Just Cause 4 $0.00 Purchased
04/10/20 Sherlock Holmes Crimes and Punishments $0.00 Purchased
04/10/20 Close to the Sun $0.00 Purchased
04/02/20 Gone Home $0.00 Purchased
04/02/20 Hob $0.00 Purchased
03/28/20 Drawful 2 $0.00 Purchased
03/26/20 Tormentor X Punisher $0.00 Purchased
03/26/20 Figment $0.00 Purchased
03/26/20 World War Z $0.00 Purchased
03/19/20 Watch Dogs Standard Edition $0.00 Purchased
03/19/20 The Stanley Parable $0.00 Purchased
03/12/20 Mutazione $0.00 Purchased
03/12/20 A Short Hike $0.00 Purchased
03/12/20 Anodyne 2: Return To Dust $0.00 Purchased
03/06/20 GoNNER $0.00 Purchased
03/06/20 Offworld Trading Company $0.00 Purchased
02/27/20 InnerSpace $0.00 Purchased
02/20/20 Assassins Creed Syndicate Standard Edition $0.00 Purchased
02/20/20 Faeria $0.00 Purchased
02/13/20 Aztez $0.00 Purchased
02/13/20 Kingdom Come: Deliverance $0.00 Purchased
02/06/20 Ticket to Ride $0.00 Purchased
02/06/20 Carcassonne $0.00 Purchased
01/30/20 Farming Simulator 19 $0.00 Purchased
01/28/20 Magic: The Gathering Arena $0.00 Purchased
01/23/20 The Bridge $0.00 Purchased
01/16/20 Horace $0.00 Purchased
01/10/20 Sundered Eldritch Edition $0.00 Purchased
01/01/20 Steep $0.00 Purchased
01/01/20 Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition $0.00 Purchased
01/01/20 Darksiders Warmastered Edition $0.00 Purchased
12/31/19 Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair $0.00 Purchased
12/31/19 Hello Neighbor $0.00 Purchased
12/29/19 The Talos Principle $0.00 Purchased
12/27/19 Faster Than Light $0.00 Purchased
12/25/19 Totally Accurate Battle Simulator $0.00 Purchased
12/23/19 Ape Out $0.00 Purchased
12/23/19 Little Inferno $0.00 Purchased
12/21/19 SUPERHOT $0.00 Purchased
12/19/19 Dauntless $0.00 Purchased
12/19/19 ReadySet Heroes Free Trial $0.00 Purchased
12/19/19 Into The Breach $0.00 Purchased
12/13/19 The Escapists $0.00 Purchased
12/13/19 The Wolf Among Us $0.00 Purchased
12/06/19 Jotun Valhalla Edition $0.00 Purchased
11/29/19 Rayman Legends $0.00 Purchased
11/26/19 Bad North Jotunn Edition $0.00 Purchased
11/14/19 The Messenger $0.00 Purchased
11/10/19 RUINER $0.00 Purchased
11/10/19 Nuclear Throne $0.00 Purchased
11/01/19 SOMA $0.00 Purchased
11/01/19 Costume Quest $0.00 Purchased
10/25/19 Layers of Fear $0.00 Purchased
10/25/19 Q.U.B.E. 2 $0.00 Purchased
10/22/19 Alan Wake's American Nightmare $0.00 Purchased
10/10/19 Surviving Mars $0.00 Purchased
10/05/19 Minit $0.00 Purchased
09/29/19 Metro: 2033 Redux $0.00 Purchased
09/26/19 Everything $0.00 Purchased
09/05/19 The End is Nigh $0.00 Purchased
09/01/19 Celeste $0.00 Purchased
08/24/19 Fez $0.00 Purchased
08/17/19 Mutant Year Zero $0.00 Purchased
08/17/19 Hyper Light Drifter $0.00 Purchased
07/30/19 The Cycle Alpha $0.00 Purchased
07/30/19 Moonlighter $0.00 Purchased
07/30/19 This War of Mine $0.00 Purchased

Steam does something similar, but it's harder to navigate than epic imho...

However, there's a site over at https://steamdb.info/upcoming/free/ that usually logs the freebies over there. Bookmark it too. :)

If you are in to older retro stuff, look in to emulators. Tons of emulators out there.

 

So it is simply a website/account then? Not some sort of program you have to run like with steam?

i.e. more like humble bundle?

 

Horizons expansion is now today part of the Elite Dangerous base game. Existing owners of base game get it free

 

They have a huge success with Fortnite, but developing a gaming platform for only one game is not really longterm. To use the hype is smart, but then there would still only be the playerbase of Fortnite. Free games are just one of the many ways to get folks to use the epic client. They also try to be more attractive for devs, with better offers than Steam. Its a pretty closed market, but hype can be a nice big lever to breach up existing structures. Also more competition is a good thing for everyone :-)

 

https://steamdb.info/upcoming/free/
Free on Steam:
Dead by Daylight
The Sims 4

 

Free only to play this weekend :)

 

Dungeons 3 is on epic games

 

This week epic games - Textorcist...

Next week - Elite Dangerous