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PC gamers with an Epic Games Store account (it’s free) can now pick up Loop Hero, a roguelike auto-battler that won critical acclaim for its focus on creating a world that supports your hero’s success rather than simply acquiring and arranging a lineup of the best cards. The PC game is available for free right now until Aug. 10. Loop Hero is joined by Bloons TD 6, a tower defense game that launched in 2021.
The next free games coming to Epic Games Store members will be Paradox Interactive’s grand strategy sim Europa Univsersalis 4 from 2013 and Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You, a mystery game in the mold of Papers, Please and the Beholder series, in which players investigate a bombing plot while struggling with the morality of the technology they use to peer into the lives of the suspects. Europa Universalis 4 and Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You will be available beginning Aug. 10.
The Epic Games Store free games are available to anyone who has an Epic Games Store account; they’ll be added to your library and launched from there. Epic has been giving away free games on a weekly basis, as an inducement to join the store (and play Epic’s own games, such as Fortnite), since it launched in December 2018.
When does the Epic Games Store update with free games?
Typically, Epic refreshes its lineup of free games every Thursday at 11 a.m. ET/8 a.m. PT.
Epic Games Store 2023 free games history
- July 27 to Aug. 3: Homeworld Remastered Collection and Severed Steel
- July 20 to July 27: The Elder Scrolls Online and Murder by Numbers
- July 13 to July 20: Train Valley 2
- July 6 to July 13: Grime
- June 30 to July 6: The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos
- June 22 to June 29: Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realm and theHunter: Call of the Wild
- June 15 to June 22: Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition and Guacamelee! 2
- June 8 to June 15: Payday 2
- June 1 to June 8: Midnight Ghost Hunt
- May 25 to June 1: Fallout: New Vegas – Ultimate Edition
- May 18 to May 25: Death Stranding
- May 11 to May 18: The Sims 4 Daring Lifestyle Bundle
- May 4 to May 11: Against All Odds, Horizon Chase Turbo, and Kao the Kangaroo
- April 27 to May 4: Breathedge and Poker Club
- April 20 to April 27: Beyond Blue and Never Alone
- April 13 to April 20: Second Extinction and Mordhau
- April 6 to April 13: Dying Light: Enhanced Edition and Shapez
- March 30 to April 6: Tunche and The Silent Age
- March 23 to March 30: Chess Ultra and the World of Warships Starter Pack: Ishizuchi
- March 16 to March 23: Warhammer 40,000: Gladius — Relics of War
- March 9 to March 16: Call of the Sea
- March 2 to March 9: Rise of Industry
- Feb. 23 to March 2: Duskers
- Feb. 16 to Feb. 23: Warpips
- Feb. 9 to Feb. 16: Recipe for Disaster
- Feb. 2 to Feb. 9: Dishonored: Death of the Outsider and City of Gangsters
- Jan. 26 to Feb. 2: Adios and Hell is Others
- Jan. 19 to Jan. 26: Epistory – Typing Chronicles
- Jan. 12 to Jan. 19: First Class Trouble, Gamedec — Definitive Edition, and Divine Knockout
- Jan. 5 to Jan. 12: Kerbal Space Program and Shadow Tactics: Aiko’s Choice
- Jan. 1 to Jan 5: Dishonored — Definitive Edition and Eximius: Seize the Frontline
