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OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

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Places I tend to check for free games. Besides the Steamgifts thread.

https://isthereanydeal.com/?by=price:asc#/filter:&pl/windows,&price/0.00/0.00,-itchio

I have a -itchio flag on it because I dont like any of the itchio games they have for free all the time.
Also the banners at the top of isthereanydeal.com usually list freebies.

I also check the freebies tab at https://gg.deals/us/

The Humble store will post freebies occasionally https://www.humblebundle.com/store

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OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
Assassins Creed Chronicles China is free right now from ubi.

https://store.ubi.com/us/assassins-creed-chronicles--china/575ffd8fa3be1633568b4cf0.html?lang=en_US

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

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DryGoods posted:

Kholat is free on steam

short, narrative walking sim I've had on my list for awhile

https://store.steampowered.com/app/343710/Kholat/

The promo video has a quote from pewdepie, how bad could it be.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
Antisquad free here.
Turn-based strategy

no signups, just download
https://freebies.indiegala.com/antisquad/?dev_id=freebies


Meh, reviews are pretty mixed on Steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/268200/Antisquad/

OgNar fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Feb 28, 2019

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
Its not bitching so much as we have just gotten used to being able to mark it and just download and play it later when we have time. Humble can sometimes be time limited. There are a couple games they gave out that I didn't get in time and cannot access now.
It just says "The key for this product has expired".

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
Surviavlist on indiegala.
Its downlaodable but only like 200mb, under library>showcase library.

https://freebies.indiegala.com/survivalist/

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
They gave away Doom, but now your gun is a spoon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPByIugoiM0

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart

SolidSnakesBandana posted:

Dude this is Chex Quest 3, not just the original! I did not realize this at first. Also in a bizarre coincidence, a line in this article...


edit: Oh wait I guess this isn't exactly a new thing.

Chex Quest 3 Revision History
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Version 1.4 changes

- updated source code to ZDoom version 2.3.1


While i haven't run it yet...
The whole zip file is only 8mb

I'd run it now but strangely enough besides City of Heroes(the best free game loving ever), I am actually getting dug into Quake 2 again at the moment.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart

Len posted:

I keep reading about City of Blank being great but I tried it a few times and it never grabbed me.

Is it because I didn't role-play? Did I just try at a bad time? I will never know

Did you get into a team of goons?
Because its like riding a steamroller down a hill slathered in grease.
Obviously its not for everyone, but I consider it one of the most fun mmos ever made.
especially now that its free

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
The only free game that I have ever gotten that I have played, finished and replayed was Subnautica.

Most free games that I have come across, and I search on near a daily basis because i am dirt poor, are just meh.
OK, but i mean, this is likely why they were free right?
Because they either just weren't that good or they are trying to drum up interest in their new one, like in Subnauticas case.


e: not that good, is wrong, not appealing to a wide audience is probably a better way to put it.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
And it actually has positive reviews.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
While I played and finished Freespace 2 at least twice, I probably played and finished Freespace 1 at least 10 times.
I always thought it was a much better game, though not as pretty. And the sense of scale hit me a lot more in 1.
Something about flight inside those nebulas kinda irritated me though.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart

site posted:

Is fs2 like freelancer? Like, can i just do the first few story missions and then gently caress off to explore the galaxy or is it pretty linear/story-driven

Freespace 2 is mission based and linear.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

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Donkringel posted:

There needs to be a freelancer bundle or freelancer on steam. I know the generally accepted way is to pirate it, but I'd much rather just buy it again. Either a remastered version or just a version that more readily works with today's hardware and OS.

Freelancer is unavailable to buy anymore other than something like ebay if you can find it.
Microsofts page is just a 404 now.

Oh you can buy it used on Amazon, for $50.


Oh, it seems even if you own Freelancer you still need to crack it because something in win7 and later screwed up its ability to see if the cd is in the tray.

OgNar fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Sep 25, 2019

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
https://store.steampowered.com/app/237870/Planet_Explorers/

Planet Explorers
Which is now free because they somehow lost the code to it???
I can't really find a good explanation but thats the basics of it.
From the same guys who made My time at Portia.

A voxel based open world mining/crafting/hunting type game.
It has a story mode or adventure mode (randomized maps with randomized quest givers) or just plain sandbox.
It has voxel based crafting of guns, swords, cars, boats and air vehicles.
Which you can save the designs of (called ISOs) or from the main menu, download others creations.
If you can think of a sword or gun from a movie or game, you can make it, or chances are, someone already has.

It had a decent rating on Steam before, but when they hosed up and just decided to put it up for free instead, it really pissed off angry nerds who had paid for it who then started leaving bad reviews.
Its a little slow, but if you enjoy open world crafting games, its pretty decent.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart

oh dope posted:

What about for young children <10 years old?

Its a very wide open world in story mode with escort quests that span miles, it might be a little frustrating/boring for kids.
But I enjoy the look of the world, so don't mind the travel times.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart

FFT posted:

Played around with it for a bit and if they are native speakers they are not good native speakers.

In any event, apparently they're based in China.

And if everything didn't take 5 to 10 times longer than necessary I'd have kept playing it.

I'm enjoying it, its just that the default story world is so drat big, everything takes longer than it would in another game.
Maybe try a smaller adventure sized map.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
https://store.steampowered.com/app/298610/Ylands/

Ylands has just gone free to play.

Its a fun little sailing/driving/crafting/exploration game.

Bought it at least a year ago and have only ever played single player.
But I like it.



Now single player is a pay option while multiplayer still looks to be free.
Though I may be wrong about this.
In game currency buys stuff like servers, emotes, costumes and blueprints for houses/cars etc.
I think its free to join a sever but about $7/m to rent one.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
Whats the last day for the free Epic games xmas giveaway?

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

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Psycho Society posted:

It's good, and will be the thing that makes epic worth an install for a couple people. But thanks to gog galaxy we never have to open it.

It still opens EGS in the background doesn't it? It did when I tried GOG galaxy last week and ran Subnautica.
Course you don't have to 'look' at EGS though.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
Talos is out, a keyhole is the image for tomorrow.
Not sure if that matches anything in that short list or not.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

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Looks like Darksiders 2 and Steep for tomorrow.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

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I hope one day that EGS figures out how to do a shopping cart.

Amazon music had that problem a long time ago, where if I wanted 3 songs from an album I had to make 3 transactions.
My card was always blocking me for sketchy transactions.

Luckily thats not the case here.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

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repiv posted:

EGS updated to show that For The King is the next giveaway so don't buy that in the next week. Never heard of it but the reviews look decent.

While i'm sure the gameplay is completely different, For the King looks remarkably like Ylands.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
isthereanydeal.com keeps listing Conan Exiles as being free but it always leads to the loving dev kit.

Its got me like 3 times now over the past few months.

https://isthereanydeal.com/game/conanexiles/info/


E: as far as I can tell they don't even sell Conan on EGS

OgNar fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Jan 6, 2020

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
I've been wanting to try out Trailmakers for awhile, thanks a bunch.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart

MZ posted:

Oh wow this looks like the follow up to Nuts & Bolts that I've been waiting for! Does it have a single-player campaign?

FYI its on sale today for $8.50.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

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Look Sir Droids posted:

What is this announcement for free Half-Life in Steam? Neither HL1 or 2 are showing up as free for me.


https://store.steampowered.com/news/57848/

Try this link.
https://store.steampowered.com/franchise/Half-Life/list/35960

I have them all, but they all show up there for me.

Oh wait, you said show up for free, nm.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
Actually its 8am pst which was 2 mins ago.
So I guess 4pm uk time.

And next week we get Carcasonne, Ticket to Ride AND Pandemic.
Like we needed a game about a pandemic now. :D

efb

OgNar fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Jan 30, 2020

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart

zharmad posted:

It kicks over to epic for the install but after the install you can exit epic and launch directly from galaxy.

OR, if you don't use GOG, you can still launch 'some' of the games directly from the desktop.

Some games (FTL, Shadow Tactics) can be run straight from their exe.
While some games (Subnautica) cannot.
Though you would still need EGS installed to install them.

You, of course, don't have to buy from them, I don't but more than happy to take their free poo poo.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart

Samuringa posted:

From the games that I have actually paid for, Hades and Outer Wilds booted fine from Steam, while Shakedown Hawaii needed to be directly from the EGS client. Doesn't seem like there's any logic to it aside from what the dev probably needed so just ask beforehand.

I'm guessing anything that's Unity based must be hooked directly in. But that's a stretched guess.









VVVVV -- Sweet, will give it a try. ..... Yeah -EpicPortal works great.

OgNar fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Jan 30, 2020

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

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Breetai posted:

Borderlands broke me.

It's really good. As is rebel galaxy Outlaw.

Let me guess an Epic Exclusive?
Another game I wont get to play...for now.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
Somewhat related, interest in Plague inc skyrocketed and became the #1 app in China

They had to state, "Please remember that Plague Inc. is a game, not a scientific model and that the currentcoronavirus outbreak is a very real situation which is impacting a huge number of people," the statement reads, in part. "We would always recommend that players get their information directly from local and global health authorities."

And on topic, I have Carcassonne on steam and its a pretty fun game.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (squeeeaal)
on EGS

I remember everyone talking about how this game was going to be so good before it came out, and then I never heard a thing about it.
While Steam reviews are decent, just wondering why I never heard anything about it.


Also Aztez this week on EGS and Faeria next week.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

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Ugly In The Morning posted:

Syndicate is on the level of Asscreed 2, it’s really good.

But is it good without the $30 DLC.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
Offworld was given away on Steam awhile back in an effort to push their $75 worth of DLC.

e: On sale now for $55

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
rear end Creed Odyssey free weekend which is from like 9pm tonight until Monday on Uplay.

e:Time zones it starts at 4am
https://assassinscreed.ubisoft.com/game/en-us/news-updates/361188/assassin-s-creed-odyssey-free-weekend-everything-you-need-to-know-

OgNar fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Mar 18, 2020

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart

FFT posted:

re: asscreed: O is anyone else having an issue where after launching from Steam, uplay goes "hm, no"?

"Unable to start the game. This product cannot be activated right now, please try again later."

probably related to whatever this bit they posted is referring to.

When it comes to UBI stuff I tend to just go straight to Uplay to buy it unless its on a major deal elsewhere, since Steam will be launching Uplay anyway.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart

Ignis posted:

The Squenix store is also giving away steam codes for Tomb Raider 2013
https://store.na.square-enix-games.com/en_US/product/604614/tomb-raider-game-of-the-year-steam

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OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
World War Z on free on EGS today, which wasn't listed when I looked at it previously.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/world-war-z/home


EGS is a lovely company, but i'll take any decent free games from them.

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