DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition is free on GOG at the moment. No idea if it’s any good…
DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition is free on GOG at the moment. No idea if it’s any good…
Looks a lot like something I would skip. Not that anyone else has to, but as I get older I have to be more picky as my time is limited, even for free games!
You can currently get Axiom Verge for free off of the Epic game store.
I have recently finished playing the game on my PS Vita, and I thought it was a very good game that take inspiration form the 2D Metroid game.
Epic sure are trying their best to get people hooked on their store.
For the record, the Epic launcher is basic, but it’s lightweight and far less intrusive than Steam. I forget its even there.
That’s good to hear, although at this point I don’t have any reason to use the Epic launcher besides these free games. Most of my PC games are in my Steam library, the rest on GOG. I have the occasional free game on UPlay, Battle.net, Origin, Humble Bundle, and the Microsoft Store - but to be honest, I don’t go out of my way to use those unless I can manage the games with the other apps. It gets quite messy when start to build up a large collection and have eight or more clients installed.
Microsoft could actually do something about this problem by adding a game manager to Windows 10 itself, with option to load game libraries from different sources - something like the Internet Accounts screen in macOS for setting it up. Cloud saves, achievements, etc follow a fairly standard format too, so could be synced without a client. But I’m doubtful that they’d ever do something this organised.
Smile Rancher. Has anyone played it?
Oxenfree.
Morrowind is free at the moment (on Bethesda’s store). There’s a code in this article:
The Witness (from the creator of Braid) is now free on the Epic Store:
Some of the puzzles in this game are quite difficult. Unlike Braid, I haven’t finished this one as I didn’t find it as inventive, but it’s never too late to return to it.
Given the recent disaster at Notre Dame, Ubisoft have made Assassin’s Creed Unity free on Uplay:
Transistor is free on the Epic Store.
I haven’t played this one properly yet, but I enjoyed Super Giant’s previous title Bastion which featured a real time narration to match the action on screen (in my view, a great innovation in game storytelling).
Transistor is a fun game. I honestly still enjoyed Bastion a bit more, but they are both visually beautiful games with engaging, and odd, stories. That it is free is amazing!
World of Goo (a unique, structure building puzzle game - I recommend trying it).
I haven’t posted here in a while. There’s been so many free games on the Epic Store, it’s worth regularly checking it. For example, Abzu is free right now.
Sonic 2 is free on Steam at the moment. Classic game.
Mechwarrior 4 is free on big websites like CHIP and many more (found out when I couldn’t find it on steam so I browsed the web)
free wierd sega prototpes / cancelled games
Oolite is a robust Elite clone.
http://www.oolite.org/
Katawa Shoujo is an, ahem, weird visual novel with a weird history and cool production values.
https://www.katawa-shoujo.com/
Falcom has been offering an old Vantage Master half-translated for free for a long while now. It’s cool.
https://www.falcom.co.jp/vantage/index_e.html
Phantom Dust was made free on PC a while back too.
Minima is a nice freebie RPG.
NetHack is free and still developed.
https://www.nethack.org/
The original Cave Story is still free.
https://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=cavestory
And the original Spelunky is still free.
https://spelunkyworld.com/original.html
And the original La-Mulana too.
https://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=lamulana
And Locomalito’s Hydorah & Maldita Castilla (which got commercial Super/EX versions) among others.
Edit: I was sure I’ve posted about such games before in general but forgotten the names of many of them I no longer have installed so I figured I’d google search for my common nick name + free games to see if I can find them on some random forum. Yeah I found them on this forum, lol! Many links might be broken but you could google for the game names mentioned instead I guess. Others are sadly lost because no name was mentioned, just the genre/description, or a now defunct developer site with many games was linked.
Edit: just noticed this thread contrary to the last posts says for “digital platforms” like I guess Steam and gog so many of these don’t qualify. Phantom Dust does. And the pos EGS has free games constantly. Gog has freebies too but most (all?) of them were free anyway. Not sure if they have more outside this bundle.
Quite an impressive selection of free games will be coming to PlayStation later this month and in April. While free games are more common on open platforms, on consoles they’re a rarer.
