https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/metro-last-light-redux
If you like this, try to find the original Metro 2033 , i.e. not the Redux one. The original one has more lighthearted voice acting and it does not look like Call of Duty. This is supposed to be a suspenseful adventure into unknown metro territory, not a military first-person shooter. But to each of its own, the old version does let you shoot your way through it if you really want to. You simply need more bullets.
Insta-claim (if logged in): https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim
A link to the giveaway: https://www.gog.com/#giveaway
https://freebies.indiegala.com/snowball/?ref=tyroneRulesUrMum
Woohoo, the WP questions are gone. Feel free, people. 🙂
“Talk about your father or a father figure in your life.” -WP / The fack. Who cares. 🙂
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/horizon-chase-turbo (It’s a spiritual successor to Lotus Turbo games and has the same composer Barry Leitch.)
“Tell us one thing you hope people never say about you.” –WP. Oh I get, this is some AI training material. Ehem. “I need 13 hours of giraffe wafers. With Tyrone shagging ur mum on top.” How ‘boot dat.
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/bloons-td-6-bf95a0
Check out free games every day until 2022/12/31 (at least 17 giveaways for 24h each) at: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/free-games
“Tell us about your first day at something — school, work, as a parent, etc.” –WP / Nope, imma too kool for skool.
“Do what you want because a pirate is free. You are a pirate.” -LazyTown
“Have you ever performed on stage or given a speech?” -WP. Why I would never… 🙂 Stage speeches are often pre-approved as in censored. Meh, that sounds like a trashy ritual of no benefit. Besides the ever-useful experience, of course.
“What big events have been taken place in your life last year? –WP” Tyrone on WP’s mum.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1556712/Capcom_Arcade_StadiumFINAL_FIGHT/
“Do you ever see wild animals? –WP” I am quite an animal. LMAO
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/saints-row-iv-re-elected
“We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.” – Andrew Ryan, Bioshock 2
Register / log in, add to the cart and check out, reveal the key and activate in Steam.
https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim to insta-claim the promo game if logged in, looks like weird but works, confirm results with the following link:
https://www.gog.com/#giveaway the usual, banner style logged-in-click-claim link, good for checking if the auto-claim worked
Two ways to get it:
a) Click this link: steam://install/1032750
b) Have an active Steam login in the browser (i.e. your Steam page shows you logged in) and then hit “Install” on the following page: https://steamdb.info/app/1032750/ . The Steam downloading dialogue box should eventually appear.
Warning: it is a mobile game port made with Unity. Those things usually run like crap, no matter how antiquated the graphics are. Keep your expectations at zero. This is proven to be true by the CPU-ravishing main menu that milks an entire core dry and lags up the whole Windows 10 system. As if Win10 did not already hog too much resources.
1. Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition / GOTY https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/fallout-3-game-of-the-year-edition
2. Evoland Legendary Edition https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/evoland-legendary-edition-5753ec
https://www.gog.com/#giveaway Until 2022-10-02
Available Thu 1st – 5th Sept 2022 on Steam
In short, you have a free Shadowlands expansion gift waiting for you on until Sept 5 if you have bought any other expansion in the past.
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Win XP 64-bit played sounds fine under Win 10, though VirtualBox 5.2.x did not properly pass it onto the host system. 6.1.x fixed the issue. Also in general, Windows 7 and up play much better in never versions.
A common issue with Linux hosts of no sound, is about setting the Virtual Box host system audio driver in a certain way. In most cases the ALSA option works, though some people have gotten it to work with PulseAudio.
BTW, Virtual Box 4.3.x is practically unusable on Windows 10. A Windows 10 update rendered the normal start-up procedure completely dysfunctional and 4.3.x has no alternative ones, such as the Headless Start workaround in 5.x versions. The 6.1.x is able to start the virtual system without workarounds and those annoying Hardening errors.
In short, update your VirtualBox and after that, try configuring settings. 6.1.x works pretty well outta box.
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/fall-guys?creator_id=blacktyroneonurmum
(The creator id referer code is fake. I want some engineer processing the error log to see Tyrone antics. 😀 )
BTW, the game was pulled from Steam. Epic most likely gave them something worthwhile for it. A quote from the Steam page of the game (recorded 2022-06-22): “
BTW, the game was pulled from Steam. Epic most likely gave them something worthwhile for it. A quote from the Steam page of the game (recorded 2022-06-22): “Notice: At the request of the publisher, Fall Guys is no longer available for sale on Steam.”
gog.com/#giveaway
gog.com/#giveaway
It is yet another Summer Sales (GOG) giveaway. The next giveaway is on Friday 17th June 2022. The SS promo event will last until 27th June 2022.
One of the Summer Sale promo games.
https://www.gog.com/en/game/warhammer_skulls_2022_digital_goodie_pack
The “Warhammer Skulls 2022 Digital Goodie Pack” list the game Warhammer 40000 Chaos Gate (1998) as item number 1.
https://freebies.indiegala.com/hope-lake?ref=ieatglassandbleedconstantly
It is a murder mystery.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/537800/Bomber_Crew/
It was free last time around 2021/01/14 in a Humble Bundle promotion.
These games are allegedly free FOR NOW, though that guarantees nothing in the long term. Ground Control 1 used to be freeware, though now it is back in sale. Back them up yourself to be sure. Similar un-freeware’d cases:
Heart of the China
Dragonsphere
Death Rally (in about 2010, until freeware’d again in 2021)
Claimable for 43 more hours.
2 hours left, *surprised Tyrone face*, go GID it.
Go tell them that you know them. You can tell them that TyroneOnUrMum sent you there (for lulz). 😀
Yes, they list places A WAY CHEAPER than Steam Sales prices. You can see the all-time low place and the price and also the current cheapest place and time. It depends on your currency what place is the cheapest, e.g. GOG tends to be slightly cheaper at times for euro people and Steam tends to be cheaper for the United States Dollar (USD) folks. For detailed Steam local prizing, look into SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/
Shadow Tactics https://www.gog.com/#giveaway
Cave Story’s Secret Santa https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812280/Cave_Storys_Secret_Santa/ , https://www.gog.com/game/cave_storys_secret_santa , https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/cave-storys-secret-santa-b6d437
Snowball https://freebies.indiegala.com/snowball?ref=JamalOnUrMum
https://store.steampowered.com/app/204450/Call_of_Juarez_Gunslinger/
Until Tue 2021-12-14
https://freebies.indiegala.com/die-young?ref=tysononurmum
An early version of Young Blood has been a long-time staple of IG freebies, though this release is separate from that one. It is an open-world action adventure game of low-budget variety, it seems.
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon, a base game (required to register its DLCs): https://register.ubisoft.com/ghostrecon-giveaway/en-US
DLCs: 1. Wild Lands – Fallen Ghosts: https://register.ubisoft.com/grw_dlc_giveaway/en-US on Uplay / Connect and https://store.steampowered.com/app/573832/Tom_Clancys_Ghost_Recon_Wildlands__Fallen_Ghosts/ on Steam (it allegedly requires Wild Lands though seems to let you unlock the DLC even if you do not have the base game)
2. Ghost Recon Break Point Deep State Adventure: no registration page available – boot up the game and go to the Expanse menu to unlock it i.e. to “buy” it for 0 currency.
This is a part of the Ghost Recon 20-year anniversary promotion. For official information: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/ghost-recon/breakpoint/news-updates/4P4NwbBFUUFvk1IeorXExL/ghost-recon-20th-anniversary-giveaways-october-2021
Saints Row the Third Remastered https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/saints-row-the-third-remastered
Automachef https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/automachef
P.S. A Londoner rant about the crappy upcoming “Saints Row” reboot : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhXASsIfDFQ
BTW, the original Third, especially with the mod Gentlemen of the Third, is one of my favorite video games. Even if it is half broken, that other half is a lot of fun. I hope this Remaster works with the mod. A lot of Remaster titles break mod support for no gain *cough FU Beamdog cough*
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/yooka-laylee
Also Void Bastards if you GAF about that https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/void-bastards
https://www.gog.com/promo/rerelease_ultima_underworld_and_syndicate
Just checkout and they’ll be on your GOG account. “Grab before September 3rd”
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1469550/Plokoth/
It is a platformer. Click on it (or ‘Play’ etc.) until Steam shows installation specs, then you have it in your library and can abort the installation.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/43110/Metro_2033/
It is the original version before the gameplay and voice acting changes in 2033 Redux. This original version is out-of-sale and the voice acting is better as it is not serious and dull like in Redux. This promotion has happened a couple years earlier.
The S¤¤t List:
Yahoo
Startpage AKA ixquick
Baidu
Kiddle
As a rule of thumb, the smaller search engines cannot afford to mess with the results because that would quickly bankrupt them. Generally, most smaller sites are better than anything on the list above, though be cautious of sites that are mere re-skins of Google and DuckDuckGo, which seems to be quite common. In practice, if the smaller site has the exact same search results as those two, use something else. I have resorted to Bing for quite a while, though Yandex might be even better as it is fast as hell and the results are decent.
https://www.games2gether.com/profile/me/rewards (the rewards page)
1. Pausing and canceling a game download takes effect about 150 seconds later (instead of zero).
2. The Store page is the default landing page when starting the launcher AND you cannot change that. The launcher downloads about five megs of image data (no, it never caches anything, meaning you will have to re-download the same page data if you get back to it again).
3. You can only order one game at a time. Keep in mind there are plenty of games with almost two dozen DLCs. It takes a while to load the order page because the launcher downloads megabytes of data for it for no good reason.
4. Any time you move to another page, the launcher clears and locks up the content page, meaning you cannot do anything anything before it has fully loaded the target page.
5. The launcher minimizes if you start an Epic Games Store game.
6. The launcher refuses to start any games if you have an active download going on. A lot of functionality is hindered or blocked by a download. I guess this is to make sure every single activity is logged and authenticated before new ones can be processed. This is super slow and any bottleneck can quickly slow everything down to a crawl. For example, a slow Internet connection. This will not affect hackers as they largely bypass any hindering actions. Basically Epic does not trust you to play your own games without supervision. This kind of controlling behavior feeds the demand for hassle-free pirate versions. The point of having games is to play them, not to validate things to the platform every 5 seconds.
7. The launcher gets glitched and refuses to start if there is an update for it. It does not tell you this. It simply fails to start. Usually this means you have to give it its sweet-ass time (while wasting yours) to get going again.
8. Has no idea how to display cellular network traffic. Windows 10 often has the same issue and major updates take turns fixing it and re-breaking it. Overall, the downloader is very crappy, something a teen could put together and better during an afternoon.
9. You have no idea how big the game is before you start downloading it. The “game-debate” site is the most reliable source for the hard drive space info. The information available on the launcher is close to zero and even that is 99 % for irrelevant marketing purposes.
10. The launcher uses the same pages as the web portal, though it does not periodically disconnect you and it loads noticeably less and does not bug out like the web version does.
11. You cannot play the games without the launcher getting all DRM on your ass. Even the shortcuts are simply protocol calls for the launcher to request a start-up. You are pretty much gimped up to 11, having to ask for permission EVERY TIME you want to play one of your own games.
12. The “Home” page is not the landing page despite the name (the Store one is). Home is filled with useless tidbit news about promotions and launched games. It is so useless I bet it is going to get removed and / or re-designed at some point. You mostly use the “Library” page that displays your games. You can clumsily search from there, which already makes this one vastly better than the Bethesda one. Not being the bottom of the barrel is not an achievement.
13. There are dysfunctional Settings settings. For example the “Throttle Downloads” option does nothing.
Epic Games Launcher makes feel envy towards the pirate copies of the games I legally own on the platform. They would be a vastly better experience than the ones eternally shackled to the ridiculously badly implemented EG platform. Of other platforms, GOG is probably the most practical and keeps adding the most valuable features, e.g. the recent cross-platform multiplay support. Steam’s last UI update is terrible. It seems hackier and more crowded with over-stuffed layouts than the very early Steam clients. Do not give money to Epic Games.
Whatever they are doing, it is not going towards improving the EGL client one bit. It is still the same clunky POS it was two years ago. I seem to recall it being significantly better few months ago with a much simpler game library listings. I have no positive experience with Epic Games Launcher or even the games played on it.
Valid until some time on Jan 1st
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/free-games <- find daily promos here
Day 1 – Cities Skylines + 3 free DLC (2020-12-17)
Day 2 – Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty (date+1)
Day 3 — 15 – Buncha stuff (2020-12-31 being the last one)
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/cities-skylines/home
2. Get the DLC (“Add-Ons”):
I Pearls from the East https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/cities-skylines/pearls-from-the-east
II Carols Candles and Candy https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/cities-skylines/carols-candles-and-candy
III Match Day https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/cities-skylines/match-day
The current day’s promotion: https://ubi.li/happyholidays
https://register.ubisoft.com/happyholidays2020-day1/en-US – AC Valhalla skin EXPIRED
https://register.ubisoft.com/happyholidays2020-day2/en-US – Starlink EXPIRED
https://register.ubisoft.com/happyholidays2020-day3/en-US – Watch Dogs Legion skin EXPIRED
https://register.ubisoft.com/happyholidays2020-day4/en-US – Trials Rising EXPIRED
https://register.ubisoft.com/happyholidays2020-day5/en-US – Hyperscape Rewards Pack EXPIRED
https://register.ubisoft.com/happyholidays2020-lastchance/ – Get all + Anno 1701 Historical Edition
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/mudrunner/home
P.S. Get the free DLCs (3?) too.
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/the-textorcist/home
P.S. Next week will have Elite Dangerous
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368450/Endless_Zone/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368440/Armor_of_Heroes/
https://freebies.indiegala.com/ghost-sweeper/?ref=UrMum4Tyrone
These seem like a mobile game ports by SEGA recently dumped onto Steam et al.
E.g. “Streets of Kamurocho” is set to be released on the following day for free on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368430/Streets_Of_Kamurocho/
| METADATA: Is free on the store? | Yes |
Source: https://steamdb.info/app/1368430/
IOW, expect more of these strange, mobile-game-like releases very soon.
https://www.totalwar.com/access-amazons/
You do not have to opt in to promotional spam. You get the code practically instantly as soon as you link your your Epic account to the TW Access one.
You can find most LEGIT free giveaways yourself just by following e.g. these tracker sites:
https://www.epicbundle.com/category/article/for-free/
You can find the weekly Epic giveaways with the same link:
Just some art assets
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/free-games
There are a lot of free DLCs for ARK.
#1: “I Will Eat Your Leftist Ass”
#2: “Eat Your Ass (and My Neighbor)”
https://bethesda.net/en/hub/arkane20
Requires signing up for Arkane Outsiders and its marketing newsletter.
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/bundles/borderlands-the-handsome-collection
Has Borderlands 1 and 2
(Also has Might & Magic Battle Chess and Rabbids Coding, in addition to the two AC titles.)
Ransacked Crash Site 