The Epic Game Store (EGS) releases several games free, typically at least one each week on Thursdays, and often of high-quality titles from both small and large game publishers. Around the holidays they often give away games daily over a few weeks. Epic gives away these free games to both support developers and bring in more customers to their platforms.

I avoid their platform when possible due to its associations with Tencent and China. There are whole communities dedicated to hating on the company, the CEO Tim Sweeney, the anti-competitive business practices, the in-house game engine Unreal, and the free-to-play battle royale game Fortnite.

Here is my list of games that were free on Epic, and where I play them:

Several hundred games are on various platforms but are associated with bundles where purchases were essentially donations to help people affected by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

There was the Itch.io Bundle for Ukraine as well as the HumbleBundle Stand with Ukraine Bundle. Some of these games I’ve acquired or started playing prior to the invasion.

These are the games I’ve been playing so far: