Free PC Games thread

[baseline bum]

Since Epic Store just keeps giving games away (previously GTA V and Civilization VI), here is the current free game:

Borderlands The Handsome Collection (contains Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel)

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/bundles/borderlands-the-handsome-collection

[NASpurs]

I must have like 200+ free games from Steam, EA, Ubi, Epic, Twitch and Gog the past few couple of years I've had this PC. :lol

[baseline bum]

I must have like 200+ free games from Steam, EA, Ubi, Epic, Twitch and Gog the past few couple of years I've had this PC. :lol

What's funny is I think I have never played any of those free games I claimed. Maybe the only one I will is AC IV Black Flag. :lol

EDIT: Maybe Mass Effect 2 from Origin since I always hear that game is supposed to be awesome.

[DMC]

Is 7DTD still free?

I liked the creator mode. I was going from town to town rebuilding them. The survival mode is ok but repetitive and after a little while no longer interesting.

[baseline bum]

Total War: Troy will be free to claim for 24 hours on launch date, August 13th, on the Epic Games Store.

[NASpurs]

Ark Survival Evolved and Samurai Showdown Neogeo Collection are free on the Epic game store.

[NASpurs]

What's funny is I think I have never played any of those free games I claimed. Maybe the only one I will is AC IV Black Flag. :lol

EDIT: Maybe Mass Effect 2 from Origin since I always hear that game is supposed to be awesome.

At this point, I think I have most of AC for free including Odyssey when Google gave it away for trying out Stadia :lol

[baseline bum]

Ark Survival Evolved and Samurai Showdown Neogeo Collection are free on the Epic game store.

I think that's it for the giveaways since their summer sale just ended.

[baseline bum]

Hitman Absolution free on GOG.com

https://www.gog.com/game/hitman_absolution

[baseline bum]

Also GOG.com is down :lol

[baseline bum]

Injustice Gods Among Us free on Steam

https://store.steampowered.com/app/242700/Injustice_Gods_Among_Us_Ultimate_Edition/

[baseline bum]

Watch Dogs 2 free on UPlay

https://register.ubisoft.com/ubisoft-forward-reward/en-US

[NASpurs]

Watch Dogs 2 free on UPlay

https://register.ubisoft.com/ubisoft-forward-reward/en-US

I got the first one for free and now the second one. I’ll wait for 2023 to get the third one for free as well. :lol

[baseline bum]

I got the first one for free and now the second one. I’ll wait for 2023 to get the third one for free as well. :lol

Have you already had it show up in UPlay? I claimed it about 7AM and still haven't had it show up.

[NASpurs]

Have you already had it show up in UPlay? I claimed it about 7AM and still haven't had it show up.

I claimed it yesterday and it's on there.

https://i.imgur.com/MEvljIW.jpg

[NASpurs]

I know this is for free games but the value proposition for the XBox Game Pass for PC is off the charts for $5. I just got it because I saw you can start preloading Microsoft Flight Simulator and then I noticed that Yakuza 0 was on there (a game I bought on Steam last month :lol). Kiwami is on there too. It's just nuts!

[140]

Speaking of epicgames/ubisoft I wish Anno 1800 would go on sale on the codex store tbh. Its been more than a year though so not hopeful

[Leetonidas]

Watchdogs 2 was pretty fun. Definitely a nice score for free :tu

[NASpurs]

Total War: Troy will be free to claim for 24 hours on launch date, August 13th, on the Epic Games Store.

^^^^^

In a few hours

[baseline bum]

^^^^^

In a few hours

Fuck I forgot that shit. Better go claim my copy and then never play it. :tu

[baseline bum]

Remnant From the Ashes free on Epic Game Store

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/remnant-from-the-ashes/home

[baseline bum]

Hitman 2016 and The Shadowrun Collection free on the Epic Games Store right now. Never played any of the modern Shadowrun games but I freaking loved the one on Super Nintendo, wonder if the news ones are as good.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/free-games

[baseline bum]

The Division free to claim until September 7th

https://register.ubisoft.com/the-division/en-US

[140]

I claimed Hitman but its taking fucking ages to download/install, is that how it is on epic?

[NASpurs]

Far Cry 3 is free too

https://slickdeals.net/f/14313737-far-cry-3-pc-digital-download-free-w-mobile-browser?src=frontpage&attrsrc=Test%3AMWUnifiedFeedTest%3AControl%7CTest% 3AjfyYieldOptimize%3AControl%7CFeature%3AisPersona lized%3Afalse

[baseline bum]

Far Cry 3 is free too

https://slickdeals.net/f/14313737-far-cry-3-pc-digital-download-free-w-mobile-browser?src=frontpage&attrsrc=Test%3AMWUnifiedFeedTest%3AControl%7CTest% 3AjfyYieldOptimize%3AControl%7CFeature%3AisPersona lized%3Afalse

That's funny, it worked too. Guess China didn't want to allow The Division to be sold there since it's a game about a pandemic lol.

[diego]

I hate digital storefronts like steam epic etc. Constantly updating shit and have to go through 20 menus to start a freaking game.

At this point I think pirate more because of that bloated crap than anything else

[NASpurs]

Football Manager 2020 and Watchdogs 2 are free on the Epic game store.

I must’ve sunk like 100+ hrs on FM2015. Those games scare me because they’re so addicting. Never again.

[baseline bum]

Streets of Kamurocho free for Sega's 60th Anniversary. Looks like a Streets of Rage game with Kiryu and Majima from the Yakuza games. Have to claim it by the 19th.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368430/Streets_Of_Kamurocho/

[Texas_Ranger]

RD2 is cracked

[baseline bum]

RD2 is cracked

You gotta think Tony Hawk won't be far behind since that's the only big AAA non-sports game out there currently uncracked.

[baseline bum]

RD2 is cracked

If you have say a lower midrange gpu (eg GTX 1070 or lower) you should check Hardware Unboxed's settings guide:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=385eG1IEZMU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3xQ33Cq4CE

[NASpurs]

RD2 was free on the Epic game store last month right? I jumped on it but still haven't touched it :lol

[baseline bum]

RD2 was free on the Epic game store last month right? I jumped on it but still haven't touched it :lol

No, where did you ever hear that crap from? :lol

[NASpurs]

No, where did you ever hear that crap from? :lol

Man I'm checking my library and nope, not on there.

There was a free game like a month or two ago that caused the Epic game store to go down from people trying to claim it. WTF game was it

[NASpurs]

Oh!! It was GTA V! NVM :lol

[baseline bum]

Man I'm checking my library and nope, not on there.

There was a free game like a month or two ago that caused the Epic game store to go down from people trying to claim it. WTF game was it

You're thinking of UPlay when they were giving away Watch Dogs 2.

[DJR210]

I just installed Empress' MK11, took an hour to install.. we'll see if it was worth the time

[baseline bum]

I just installed Empress' MK11, took an hour to install.. we'll see if it was worth the time

Did you use FitGirl's repack or something? Her releases always take forever to install because of the retarded level of compression she uses, often for not much reduction in filesize anyways.

[DJR210]

Did you use FitGirl's repack or something? Her releases always take forever to install because of the retarded level of compression she uses, often for not much reduction in filesize anyways.

No.. I saw her repack was half the size, but 3x the install time. 3 fucking hours to install a game lol

[DJR210]

Also the game runs great.. I'm loving the style too. Stages are detailed as you'd expect.

[ElNono]

No.. I saw her repack was half the size, but 3x the install time. 3 fucking hours to install a game lol

Sorta hated her repacks, what you save in download time, you spend installing, lol...

[baseline bum]

Sorta hated her repacks, what you save in download time, you spend installing, lol...

It would be great if you could decompress her repacks before install, but no, 3 hour install that leaves your system practically unusable while the cpu is going balls to the wall decompressing shit. Her repacks would be so awesome if you could just use 7zip to decompress after download since she almost always offers options like not having the multiplayer part of the game or not downloading / installing languages you don't care about. Her repacks used to really be perverse 3-4 years ago when she turned everything to the max on her compression making installs take 8 hours on an i7.

[ElNono]

It would be great if you could decompress her repacks before install, but no, 3 hour install that leaves your system practically unusable while the cpu is going balls to the wall decompressing shit. Her repacks would be so awesome if you could just use 7zip to decompress after download since she almost always offers options like not having the multiplayer part of the game or not downloading / installing languages you don't care about. Her repacks used to really be perverse 3-4 years ago when she turned everything to the max on her compression making installs take 8 hours on an i7.

I mean, I get it if you're on a metered connection, but otherwise it doesn't seem it's worth the trouble.

[baseline bum]

I mean, I get it if you're on a metered connection, but otherwise it doesn't seem it's worth the trouble.

More concerned with the ability to not install crap you don't use on limited SSD space, considering how big games have gotten the last couple of years. Seems like most of this gen games were in the 50-60 GB range but now you have so much pushing north of 100GB. Fitgirl's repacks give you the ability to strip out a lot of crap you don't want, so they'd be incredible if the install times weren't so ridiculous.

[ElNono]

More concerned with the ability to not install crap you don't use on limited SSD space, considering how big games have gotten the last couple of years. Seems like most of this gen games were in the 50-60 GB range but now you have so much pushing north of 100GB. Fitgirl's repacks give you the ability to strip out a lot of crap you don't want, so they'd be incredible if the install times weren't so ridiculous.

ehh, a 1TB SSD is $100 right now... and gonna keep on going down... It made sense a while ago, but again, if you have a speedy net connection that's not metered, the install times are a dealbreaker, IMO.

[baseline bum]

ehh, a 1TB SSD is $100 right now... and gonna keep on going down... It made sense a while ago, but again, if you have a speedy net connection that's not metered, the install times are a dealbreaker, IMO.

Fair point. Weird time to be buying a budget SSD though. Kind of wondering whether the PCIE-4.0 NVME drives will finally start making sense now that both consoles are going to launch with them in a few weeks. As of now one SSD is pretty much as good as any other SSD for gaming but maybe that really changes with the consoles freed from the shackles of mechanical drives.

Was playing RDR2 today (thanks 0xEMPRESS) and am genuinely surprised how well my 4C/8T Haswell Xeon E3-1231v3 (runs at 3.6 GHz on all-cores loads) with 16GB DDR3-2400 is still holding up six years later. Pretty much always gpu limited by my 1660 Super in it.

[ElNono]

Fair point. Weird time to be buying a budget SSD though. Kind of wondering whether the PCIE-4.0 NVME drives will finally start making sense now that both consoles are going to launch with them in a few weeks. As of now one SSD is pretty much as good as any other SSD for gaming but maybe that really changes with the consoles freed from the shackles of mechanical drives.

Was playing RDR2 today (thanks 0xEMPRESS) and am genuinely surprised how well my 4C/8T Haswell Xeon E3-1231v3 (runs at 3.6 GHz on all-cores loads) with 16GB DDR3-2400 is still holding up six years later. Pretty much always gpu limited by my 1660 Super in it.

The perception is definitely going to change, tbh... but it might take a couple years to eventually fully migrate to PC, especially because there's barely any mobos right now with PCIE4... and then you need the drives themselves. Maybe we'll see some interface in PCIE3 16x that can take full advantage of those drives.

That said, any NVMe drive right now is such a difference maker, tbh... and I've been using 8TB SSDs for a while, there's no way people are going back to HDDs, except for backup.

[DJR210]

Sorta hated her repacks, what you save in download time, you spend installing, lol...

Exactly