No, but some developers do limited time giveaways sometimes. Usually for an older game in a series to promote the release of a new one, or if the game is going away for some reason like Alan Wake did. These are usually not announced on the front page so need to catch a notice from the publisher on their page, or read about it on a gaming website or forum etc.
Creative assembly gave away shogun 2 at the start of the pandemic and the only reason I know is cuz I fuckin missed it and had to wait for a sale to buy it like a complete buffoon.
Which is hilarious. Epic is willing to spend millions to lure people onto their platform, but not to improve the damn shop. Every time I'm interested in a game on Epic I go to Steam to learn what the game is about and read the actual reviews...
Yeah it's just because steam doesn't have to literally pay people (in games) to use their platform. The moment epic stops giving free stuff they'll lose a shit ton of their weekly traffic.
Yeah I have used the Epic Launcher in the past for Hades and free games like Wargame, but it has so many practical with missing features. This is just a list of things that have dragged down my personal experience with Epic:
Yeah and epic reached 69million people MONTHLY visiting their site/launcher for about 15-20s which is equivalent of getting a free game. On steam there are 70m+ people visiting their app DAILY and not for 20s. And even by that it means that steam is better
Also, Steam is actively and almost singlehandedly advancing gaming on Linux (I recently switched to Mint), while Epic Games is... Offering free stuff. Yay, free stuff I guess.
Glad this is the top comment. Comments here are surprisingly sane, actually. It's good to see that this post hasn't been flooded with apologists like they usually are.
Epic is literally just my rocket league launcher. I still get all the free games and there are quite a few good ones i might play eventually. But i hate epic, the launcher is still trash and bare bones and when they eventually run out of money to buy out devs i think they will crash and burn along with all your free games.
Steam also doesn’t do time limited exclusive paid monopoly…. Bought a new console because of their friggin PC “exclusives”, and just borrow the game cd.
Competitive is good. Epic got me pretty good, too. Gave me Control for free, but still charged $5 for each DLC. Of course I bought them; Control is a bitchin, beautiful game.
I’ve always thought it so weird that it’s like that. Epic could use their money to compete, feature to feature, vs steam. Instead they decided early on it’s much cheaper to just bribe people to stay relevant and to heck with the customer’s experience on their platform. After all it’s not like they don’t have the money to develop and improve their client..
I got Total War Troy on Epic Games not knowing that it was a timed exclusive. If i knew this was the case I wouldve waited a whole year just to have it in my steam library with all my other total war games. By the way, big fuck you to Creative Assembly for getting into this exclusive platform bullshit.
I hate their platform, slow to open, unintuitive 1/100 of the things steam offers, but they do have good sales when they offer that 10$ coupon. I said I would never buy from them but getting a 75% game with AN ADDED -10$ on top of that is kind of a steal I was willing to take. I still won't support them in normal purchases like exclusive titles and wait for a steam release but the sale coupon does feel like it support the devs and not the actual platform.
I still have never downloaded the Epic Games launcher/store whatever. If it’s not on Steam it doesn’t get my money, only a few exceptions such as Riot Games and Battle.net. Haven’t bought a new game on Battle.net in a few years, so I can get rid of it’s hold on me. But I understand wanting to sell your own games on your own launcher, so I won’t knock a company for that.
Yea, go to the store and in that blue tab there's a thing you can click ("categories" I think?) And you can see all their free games. I've perused it quite a bit and there are some gems in that mound of shit
Yup. Got Little Nightmares, Company of Heroes 2, Titan Quest among other games. It's up to the devs to do it and not advertised by steam explicitly unlike epic so you have to keep an eye out for them.
It's a rare thing, especially for good games. But in all honesty, they some don't need it. The sales have been tried and tested for a decade now. It works brilliantly.
One had to legitimately pay homunculus to astroturf, the other one just released a product to expand and popularize PC gaming to handheld communities. You got the pictures reversed there bud.
Its called selling the product at a loss to harm your competitor and its a shitty business practice. Luckily the epic games store is bad enough that people still don't use it.
Some epic fanboy did this meme just to feel special, even tho most people would rather pay for games on steam than use that dogshit launcher that epic has. I hope Epic dies soon or they shut it down because no one uses money there.
Fuck epic. Stopped playing rocket league since you had to make a account to play the game. They won’t be getting my money/information or time. Steam seems to be the only platform that does pc gaming right. My friends only argument is that epic gives away good free games. And my response is you have to use their platform to play your 1-2 free games. Not worth it imo. Stopped playing cod on the computer because of their integrated launcher. Same with battlefield. Hate this trend with new games lately. But it seems like I’m not missing much with cod and battlefield games.
They try to lure you in with free candy. They loose a ton of money for this reason. Not very intelligent Business if you ask me. They should use the money to improve the platform but they decided to be anti consumer by choosing to silence customers by not implementing reviews/ community forums and making pc exclusive deals which takes the freedom of choice.
Yeah, but Epic Games launcher is among the WORST launchers in the entire business. EA/Origin is definitely worse, but 3rd place for worst launcher is nothing to write home about either lmao
Ya'll enjoy your meaningless internet points out here while I'll be enjoying free AAA games along with other people who don't base their personality around what app we use to access our electronic toys 😎
I buy from whatever platform is the cheapest. Steam is my preferred. All a want to see is Steam stepping up in response to Epic, so that we gamers get treated.
I mean, they have stepped up already. Until Epic offers competitive community mod integration like steam workshop, Epic will be so far behind in terms of the quality of the PC experience for tons of games. Seriously, ease of modding has made so many games so much better on steam.
Valve has no incentive to do that. The only reason epic is doing it is to get people on their platform and as far as i can tell it's not working. Steam has the majority of users and the best store/launcher of all of them. The only reason I start the epic games store is to claim the next free game and I suspect it's the same for lots of people.
Many games offered for free on Epic were offered free elsewhere, with some having been offered for free on Steam previously. I don't see the need to use Epic.
I don't know why you get so much hate in the replies, I do the exact same. I don't use the EGS much but for me the same thing apply for games I got from amazon prime. When I really like a game I'll buy it on steam just to have the game on steam 'cause I like having everything on one launcher and beacause I like going for achievement the I love showing them of on steam. I also feel like it supports the devs. (The only game I don't have on Steam are Minecraft java and Sea Of Thieves (beacause I bought it when it wasn't yet released on steam, only on the windows store))
And it's the other way around for UI, don't get me wrong I use EGS for the freebies and the occasional exclusive but f me if I have to buy a game and I have the choice if I'm ever going to buy it on the EGS.
Personally I really dislike the epic games store, more than origin,and even when I have a game on egs, I sometimes buy it on steam, overall I prefer to have games on steam
Epic games freebies never worked for me… took many hours to install only to find out that it has some missing files or some shit like that. Never putting money EVER on that platform…
Then flip it for their launcher. Steam is the best there is no comparison. They can have a couple bucks instead of it being 100% free. I'll take a 2nd copy in epic when it is free... just because
This isn't even equivalent. Steam isn't actively paying publishers or devs to give users free games. If there are free games it's the publishers or devs who decides. Epic is paying to give out free games in order to attract more users. Wtf is this?
There are apps that notify when free games are available. I think the one I use is free game radar. Steam does have freebies, just not weekly like epic.
Doesn’t change the fact that Epic’s support for add-ons to most games is absolute trash. I got Ark for free on Epic and now I really wish I got it on Steam when it was free over a specific weekend instead. I can’t join servers hosted on my own machine, nor can I use any of the awesome community made mods for the game.
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steam gives freebies ?
Not like epic but the devs/publishers can offer the game for free. Check steamdb.
efreebies
It's just a shit flinging meme.
I got Alien Isolation for free on steam.
No, but some developers do limited time giveaways sometimes. Usually for an older game in a series to promote the release of a new one, or if the game is going away for some reason like Alan Wake did. These are usually not announced on the front page so need to catch a notice from the publisher on their page, or read about it on a gaming website or forum etc.
No. It's up to the devs/publishers of the game.
I've had steam for over 12 years, got Portal for free.
Sometimes. There was once a time were every bioshock title was for free I believe
Call of Juarez Gunslinger was free a while back.
yeah just check top all time posts on
Last one I knew was lil nightmares
Creative assembly gave away shogun 2 at the start of the pandemic and the only reason I know is cuz I fuckin missed it and had to wait for a sale to buy it like a complete buffoon.
Thanks Fortnite kiddies for all the free games!
Tomb raider, GTAV, Nioh, Watchdogs, Saints Row 3.....
cant wait to play em someday!
But all the other things, Steam still exceeds Epic by a thousand miles.
Epic's entire strategy is basically use the boatload of cash they get from Fortnite to buy (not literally... yet) developers and users.
Money doesnt matter when you spend $15 for 15 games
Which is hilarious. Epic is willing to spend millions to lure people onto their platform, but not to improve the damn shop. Every time I'm interested in a game on Epic I go to Steam to learn what the game is about and read the actual reviews...
Yeah it's just because steam doesn't have to literally pay people (in games) to use their platform. The moment epic stops giving free stuff they'll lose a shit ton of their weekly traffic.
Yeah I have used the Epic Launcher in the past for Hades and free games like Wargame, but it has so many practical with missing features. This is just a list of things that have dragged down my personal experience with Epic:
Also epic does not support native linux games like steam do
Gabe Newell is the only major player in the industry that isn't a complete dickhead. He will forever have my support.
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The Simple Truth, and let them. It's better than platform exclusives
The only reason I ever boot up the epic store is to collect free games for my backlog. Maybe one day when I'm retired I'll get around to playing them.
Yeah and epic reached 69million people MONTHLY visiting their site/launcher for about 15-20s which is equivalent of getting a free game. On steam there are 70m+ people visiting their app DAILY and not for 20s. And even by that it means that steam is better
Also, Steam is actively and almost singlehandedly advancing gaming on Linux (I recently switched to Mint), while Epic Games is... Offering free stuff. Yay, free stuff I guess.
Epics launcher is so garbage I've ended up just buying the games I got for free on steam.
Glad this is the top comment. Comments here are surprisingly sane, actually. It's good to see that this post hasn't been flooded with apologists like they usually are.
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Epic is literally just my rocket league launcher. I still get all the free games and there are quite a few good ones i might play eventually. But i hate epic, the launcher is still trash and bare bones and when they eventually run out of money to buy out devs i think they will crash and burn along with all your free games.
Sure, but at the end of the day, we get free games so who cares why.
Steam also doesn’t do time limited exclusive paid monopoly…. Bought a new console because of their friggin PC “exclusives”, and just borrow the game cd.
Competitive is good. Epic got me pretty good, too. Gave me Control for free, but still charged $5 for each DLC. Of course I bought them; Control is a bitchin, beautiful game.
I’ve always thought it so weird that it’s like that. Epic could use their money to compete, feature to feature, vs steam. Instead they decided early on it’s much cheaper to just bribe people to stay relevant and to heck with the customer’s experience on their platform. After all it’s not like they don’t have the money to develop and improve their client..
I got Total War Troy on Epic Games not knowing that it was a timed exclusive. If i knew this was the case I wouldve waited a whole year just to have it in my steam library with all my other total war games. By the way, big fuck you to Creative Assembly for getting into this exclusive platform bullshit.
Probably because I love steam Sales, but every game that's on Epic for free is a game not only I own but have beaten. It's a curse man.
If free is all you care about there is a place where all games are free. 🏴☠️
Beeing a pirate is alright to be
Steam have a competent platform and service with useful features and as a company are open .
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Scary part now is epic is getting a lot of the creation tools and forcimg their way like that.
"There's no such thing as a free lunch."
Yup. Epic is known to sell your info, there’s no privacy.
I like how its the other way around for store functionality
Because Epic/Tencent/CCP are trying to buy their way into the extremely lucrative PC digital distribution marketplace.
Which is funny because ethics is the worst launcher that I have. Once Chivalry 2 is on steam I'll have no reason to use epic.
Too bad Epic has nothing of value other than freebies.
It's Bribery more than anything.
I hate their platform, slow to open, unintuitive 1/100 of the things steam offers, but they do have good sales when they offer that 10$ coupon. I said I would never buy from them but getting a 75% game with AN ADDED -10$ on top of that is kind of a steal I was willing to take. I still won't support them in normal purchases like exclusive titles and wait for a steam release but the sale coupon does feel like it support the devs and not the actual platform.
I still have never downloaded the Epic Games launcher/store whatever. If it’s not on Steam it doesn’t get my money, only a few exceptions such as Riot Games and Battle.net. Haven’t bought a new game on Battle.net in a few years, so I can get rid of it’s hold on me. But I understand wanting to sell your own games on your own launcher, so I won’t knock a company for that.
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Do steam freebies even exist?
Yea, go to the store and in that blue tab there's a thing you can click ("categories" I think?) And you can see all their free games. I've perused it quite a bit and there are some gems in that mound of shit
Yup. Got Little Nightmares, Company of Heroes 2, Titan Quest among other games. It's up to the devs to do it and not advertised by steam explicitly unlike epic so you have to keep an eye out for them.
It's a rare thing, especially for good games. But in all honesty, they some don't need it. The sales have been tried and tested for a decade now. It works brilliantly.
It does and there's actually loads of hidden gems.
This shit meme: brought to you by Epic's marketing team and enhanced with vote manipulation bots
Too true its getting sad at this point
Nice try Epic pr.
Fuck Epic Games
Valve developed Proton and that’s the only freebie I actually care about
Steams so much better than Epic store that's why they have to give free games for users
If something is free -you- are the product.
Also their launcher is a pile of dog shit, and super invasive to your computer. It's basically spyware.
Lol you dont think the publisher is going to want to see sales and not just traffic?
Well I got a Steam Link for one Euro once, which is basically free.
I regret not having the foresight to see myself buying a laptop. Missed out on the Steam Link.
Epic Games Store is responsible for PC exclusives.
EGS and Oculus are both the worst for that.
Im still waiting for the "timed exclusive" game bugsnax to release on steam =/
Oooooo Now do comparison of Sales!!! :P
I only use epic for free stuff though lmao
Nothing wrong with that. Use whatever benefits you as a consumer.
At least you actually play the freebies.
Yeah but I don’t like spyware on my pc thanks
Meanwhile, Steam sales makes Epic look like a joke. I think I'd rather have 40% off a game I want than a free game I don't really care for.
Fuck Epic Game Store
Smells like EGS Propaganda
Epic freebies are great if you want 17 free copies of Cities Skylines
Steam is still better
...that i'd rather buy on steam for full price still.
Same here. I have so many free games on Epic, but I never feel like launching the client and actually installing and playing them.
This. Never gonna spend a dime on Epic.
Epic is paying more shills again shucks.
I rather pay on steam than selling my soul to epic.
One had to legitimately pay homunculus to astroturf, the other one just released a product to expand and popularize PC gaming to handheld communities. You got the pictures reversed there bud.
FuckEpic
Steam > epic
Epic games store gives away a bunch of excellent controller games yet has no controller support :x
Shame some of these games are useless because for example Cities Skylines is pointless to play without steam workshop.
Ew you use epic games?…
I've stopped claiming free games on EGS because I don't play them anyway, not having them on Steam just feels wrong
Remember that when something is free, YOU are the product.
Even if epic games give out freebies i would still choose steam and buy the game in steam instead of getting it for free on epic. Steam > epic
I got l4d2 for free on steam so for that alone I have to disagree
All those free games and I still won't dare install Epic on my PC. Steam is the only launcher for me.
Its called selling the product at a loss to harm your competitor and its a shitty business practice. Luckily the epic games store is bad enough that people still don't use it.
I would rather have zero free games from steam, than use the epic games launcher at all for any reason.
Same
I always get the free games from epic. And add them to Steam as non-Steam games.
For the epic experience vs steam, reverse the meme. Wow that rhymes
Some epic fanboy did this meme just to feel special, even tho most people would rather pay for games on steam than use that dogshit launcher that epic has. I hope Epic dies soon or they shut it down because no one uses money there.
Rather pay for it on Steam than get it free on that shitty 'launcher'. I do get the free Epic games anyway, just don't download them. Down with Epic!
Why bother getting them then?
Counterpoint: you still have to download Epic games launcher
Imagine using chinese app
Is this a joke that I'm too rich to understand?
Free is still not cheap enough to make me use the Epic store
Thats because epic needs those freebies to get people to use their launcher
Yeah still not using it
Yeah, but then switch it around for the platforms themselves and suddenly the freebies aren't worth it.
I take the free games from Epoc but never buy anything from them.
Still a shitty store tho
...portal
But it's on the epic launcher...
oh look its the only good thing epic has
Steam still better.
Have you seen the recent free games. They're shit . Plus steam never gives games away for free. Developers do
Fuck epic. Stopped playing rocket league since you had to make a account to play the game. They won’t be getting my money/information or time. Steam seems to be the only platform that does pc gaming right. My friends only argument is that epic gives away good free games. And my response is you have to use their platform to play your 1-2 free games. Not worth it imo. Stopped playing cod on the computer because of their integrated launcher. Same with battlefield. Hate this trend with new games lately. But it seems like I’m not missing much with cod and battlefield games.
Nice try, I will never use the epic games store.
If someone throws free stuff at you they might just be begging for attention. Should make you think why someone else doesn't bother.
I’d rather wait and purchase the game on Steam than use Epic Game Store. Steam is better IMHO.
This is one hell of a shit take lol
They try to lure you in with free candy. They loose a ton of money for this reason. Not very intelligent Business if you ask me. They should use the money to improve the platform but they decided to be anti consumer by choosing to silence customers by not implementing reviews/ community forums and making pc exclusive deals which takes the freedom of choice.
Yeah, but Epic Games launcher is among the WORST launchers in the entire business. EA/Origin is definitely worse, but 3rd place for worst launcher is nothing to write home about either lmao
I've heard Epic comes with a virus so avoided it. Is that untrue?
I'd rather keep my games all in one place, thanks.
Epic be that windowless unmarked white van offering candy to kids. Grab the candy and run back to steam, lol.
You really thought you had something here, didn't you?
Epic games asks a high price for all their free games. That cost being the use of epic.
Yea. But you'd have to use epic. So...
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Ya'll enjoy your meaningless internet points out here while I'll be enjoying free AAA games along with other people who don't base their personality around what app we use to access our electronic toys 😎
I buy from whatever platform is the cheapest. Steam is my preferred. All a want to see is Steam stepping up in response to Epic, so that we gamers get treated.
I mean, they have stepped up already. Until Epic offers competitive community mod integration like steam workshop, Epic will be so far behind in terms of the quality of the PC experience for tons of games. Seriously, ease of modding has made so many games so much better on steam.
That's not going to happen. Epic is hemorrhaging money to get people on their platform. Steam doesn't need to do that.
Valve has no incentive to do that. The only reason epic is doing it is to get people on their platform and as far as i can tell it's not working. Steam has the majority of users and the best store/launcher of all of them. The only reason I start the epic games store is to claim the next free game and I suspect it's the same for lots of people.
Steam stepping up to what?
If you want cheapest, you should look at IsThereAnyDeal.
Many games offered for free on Epic were offered free elsewhere, with some having been offered for free on Steam previously. I don't see the need to use Epic.
Epic's bots working overtime I see
Epic freebies are demos for me. If I like the game, I immediately buy it on steam and play it there. So epic is pretty useless.
I don't know why you get so much hate in the replies, I do the exact same. I don't use the EGS much but for me the same thing apply for games I got from amazon prime. When I really like a game I'll buy it on steam just to have the game on steam 'cause I like having everything on one launcher and beacause I like going for achievement the I love showing them of on steam. I also feel like it supports the devs. (The only game I don't have on Steam are Minecraft java and Sea Of Thieves (beacause I bought it when it wasn't yet released on steam, only on the windows store))
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Epic Games "Freebies" in a nutshell:
This exact meme can be reversed for “Epic’s platform vs. Steam’s platform”
Ah yes, backdoor into my computer so ccp can harvest my data, epic
Oh, good old times when Moke was trend...
And it's the other way around for UI, don't get me wrong I use EGS for the freebies and the occasional exclusive but f me if I have to buy a game and I have the choice if I'm ever going to buy it on the EGS.
The only time I log into Epic.
Csgo???
I start the launcher every friday evening, get the free game(s) and then quit until next week.
Oh it's..... ARONLD!
Winnie the Pooh would fit the meme better
God you people are nerds why do you care so much
Those freebies are the only thing that keeps epic launcher on my desktop. In my region steam games are cheaper.
Xbox game pass, fuck epic games
Pirated "freebies": that's cute.
1/15 free games from epic are okay
People who collect both even if they’ll never play them
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I see my soul deteriorate every time i see my about 700+ games on epic, steam and gog.
Personally I really dislike the epic games store, more than origin,and even when I have a game on egs, I sometimes buy it on steam, overall I prefer to have games on steam
Epic wants to entice you so they can steal your information.
Now remove freebies and you get the same but the other way around
I'll still stick to steam
But with steam sales it's basically free
Goes to show that one of them needs to bribe people into using their platform, while the other simply attracts by being the far superior service.
The only downside is, you have to use epic games in order to play those free games
People give out free candy from their windowless vans, does that mean we should get in?
Epic games freebies never worked for me… took many hours to install only to find out that it has some missing files or some shit like that. Never putting money EVER on that platform…
Who fucking cares?! Just give me ONE platform for all my games. Steam is the closest I’ll get, and I’m happy with it
and yet, if my internet stops working some day, I will suddenly find out that I don't own any of them.
Yeah right... both lame af, epic games even worse.
...Torrents.
And this here is the perfect example of Epic’s strategy working.
Have about 900 games in my Steam library, don't need free games.
Every game epic has ever given out that I'm interested in I already owned it on steam lmfao
Then flip it for their launcher. Steam is the best there is no comparison. They can have a couple bucks instead of it being 100% free. I'll take a 2nd copy in epic when it is free... just because
I would like to note that a buddy of mine and I were playing a game I bought on Steam on sale for like a dollar and he got for free on Epic Games.
OP getting that fortnite money to shitpost ads
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This isn't even equivalent. Steam isn't actively paying publishers or devs to give users free games. If there are free games it's the publishers or devs who decides. Epic is paying to give out free games in order to attract more users. Wtf is this?
Steam - Voluntary Developer Giveaway
Be that as it may but Steam has something that Epic doesn't.
There are apps that notify when free games are available. I think the one I use is free game radar. Steam does have freebies, just not weekly like epic.
Doesn’t change the fact that Epic’s support for add-ons to most games is absolute trash. I got Ark for free on Epic and now I really wish I got it on Steam when it was free over a specific weekend instead. I can’t join servers hosted on my own machine, nor can I use any of the awesome community made mods for the game.
Damn these kids are more defensive than the console fanboys.
Because epic is trash so they have to work harder to be competitive?
Like a wise donkey once said: don't you think he's compensating for something?