The Epic Games Store, the video game digital distribution service and storefront that is partially known for giving away a lot of PC games, will be offering as many as 16 free games as part of this year’s holiday celebrations, according to new details that were posted today surrounding Epic’s end-of-year event and 2024 holiday sale, which is said to run from December 12, 2024 to January 9, 2025. Two of these games will be available for customers to claim for an entire week, while the rest will reportedly only be offered for a period of 24 hours. Bus Simulator 21 and LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga remain available to claim from the Epic Games Store until December 12 at 11:00 a.m.
Schedule of free titles:
- From December 12 to 19, 2024 at 5 p.m.: Mystery game n° 1
- From December 19 to 20, 2024 at 5 p.m.: Mystery game n° 2
- From December 20 to 21, 2024 at 5 p.m.: Mystery game n° 3
- From December 21 to 22, 2024 at 5 p.m.: Mystery game n° 4
- From December 22 to 23, 2024 at 5 p.m.: Mystery game n° 5
- From December 23 to 24, 2024 at 5 p.m.: Mystery game n° 6
- From December 24 to 25, 2024 at 5 p.m.: Mystery game n° 7
- From December 25 to 26, 2024 at 5 p.m.: Mystery game n° 8
- From December 26 to 27, 2024 at 5 p.m.: Mystery game n° 9
- From December 27 to 28, 2024 at 5 p.m.: Mystery game n° 10
- From December 28 to 29, 2024 at 5 p.m.: Mystery game n° 11
- From December 29 to 30, 2024 at 5 p.m.: Mystery game n° 12
- From December 30 to 31, 2024 at 5 p.m.: Mystery game n° 13
- From December 31, 2024 to January 1, 2025 at 5 p.m.: Mystery game n° 14
- From January 1 to 2, 2025 at 5 p.m.: Mystery game n° 15
- From January 2 to 9, 2025 at 5 p.m.: Mystery game n° 16
The end-of-year event will begin on December 12, 2024 at 5:00 PM (French time) and will run until January 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM. All 16 titles, which may also be DLCs, will be offered during the event period.
Discussion (6 replies)
Join Discussion →One of which will be some fairly bigger named title, to draw attention.
14 of which will have previously been given away.
My EGS library consists almost exclusively of these free give aways. Out of 471 titles, I've played... one of them via EGS for more than 2 hours. The EGS app/storefront is just slow and sucks.
I've put some hours into a few games. But similarly I've purchased zero.
Why is it called a giveaway if you don't own anything?
The giveaway is obviously the license to use in exchange for your metadata. So it's less of a freebie and more of a ongoing lifetime survey.
How dare them let me play these games for free.
Same. I always grab the free games, but I hate using the EGS launcher, and I've barely touched maybe a small handful of the games I have in that library. Some of those games I have on EGS I actually still played on Steam after getting them on EGS, using friend's copies via Steam library share, or just cuz I bought them on Steam (or GOG) anyways.
Yeah, I'm never going to spend actual money on that storefront.
The whole reason I even have an EGS account to begin with is because I was messing around with UE4 dev stuff. My account comes from the time before EGS was a general game store. It used to be just a marketplace for UE4 development assets. Back then the XBLA-exclusive game Shadow Complex was released for free on PC through EGS. I grabbed it cuz I was happy the game finally came to PC. I didn't realize Epic was just using it as a test to eventually turn their store into a regular video game storefront. I also didn't realize the game was coming to Steam later.
If I didn't already have an Epic account before EGS came into existence the way it is now, I probably never would have bothered to make an account, even for the free games. But since I already had an account, then sure, why not grab all the free games. But yeah I don't ever really actually use them. On my last PC, when I switched from Win7 to Linux and Win10, I never bothered to install the EGS launcher. I've yet to install it on my current PC.
EDIT: I completely forgot that the real reason I have an Epic account is not cuz of the UE4 dev stuff, but because I wanted to play the UT4 alpha.