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How many relieve Epic Store games have you actually played?

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Epic Games is generating a Lot of news lately, mainly due to the ongoing Court conflict against Apple. And, arsenic a side-effect of that visitation, a stack of documents that have recently been revealed peeling a bit more light along how the company operates.

For instance, we learned that Epic spent over $11 million on free games in the forward nine months of giveaways. The text file showed how much Epic salaried developers to burglarproof their games as freebies, along with how many new Epic Game Fund accounts were created to lay claim those games. Bad engrossing stuff.

I know a lot of people take Epos Games Store's free games, including many of United States Here at Microcomputer Gamer. But how umteen of us actually gambling those games, instead of just logging in to nab them and then completely forgetting about them? I asked our writers if they were actually playing the free games or just banking them for around extreme wet day. You can severalize us your own free game habits in the comments below.

Jarred Sir William Walton: I've claimed pretty much altogether of them, and even created secern accounts for my kids last year and started claiming the games for them as advisable. Some day, I'll give them those accounts as a attending and win the Best Dad Ever present. Maybe.

As for playing the games, I've probably well-tried at to the lowest degree cardinal, possibly ten pct of them. I'm a sucker for a good Rogue-nonfat, and tired mint of time with Darkest Dungeon. Was For the King one of the freebies as wellspring? I played that for at least 15-20 hours. Mostly, though, I just care to watch my ingathering of Epic Shop games continue to grow.

Jacob Ridley: I'm decidedly in the 5/ten percent bracket when information technology comes to acting my Epic Games collection, but I've besides had a admirer suggest a game to me for America to play and establish come out I already personal it on Epic. That alone makes the semi-regular boot worth information technology.

Wes Fenlon: It looks like I've claimed something like 90 free games on the Epic Store, but the only ones I've played I in reality owned happening Steam clean, as well. I just grabbed them because, well, why not? So... kind of 0% played. The biggest receive for me was Grand Theft Auto 5, which came with a whole bunch of released stuff I could claim happening my existing answer for. That actually spurred me to get into GTA Online in a big way.

Dave James II: I retrieve GTA 5 is the lone one of the free Epic Store games I've redeemed, and only because I for some reason bricked my Steam version trying to install different Reshade mods to thrash the RTX 3090, and no manner of wipes and reinstalls would bring it back to life. And I totally would have played the hell out of it on Epic because I've been hatred-gaming GTA Online throughout lockdown in the UK with a couple of buddies.

We laugh, we cry, we cult at the frustrating flakiness and wasted potential that GTA Online represents. And we as wel get a complain out of punching each other in the face and blowing up each other's shiny new cars as we hide from the braying GTA trolls in our hacked-together private Sessions.

Simply I haven't actually booted up the Epic version because when I did a complete reinstall of my system my normal Steam version today plant a treat. Well, works likewise as the still somehow incredibly slow-cargo (even along a fricking NVMe SSD) PoS game ever does.

Tyler Wilde: Every last redeeming and no playing makes Jak a dull boy. (I haven't played any of them.)

Jody Macgregor: I am a free games hound, cannot supporte myself. I claim all of them, and play a lot. The most surprising was Bravo's Creed: Syndicate, which I'd heard blended things about. Information technology turned bent on be a glorious daft action movie full of hypercockney banter that I ended in a reasonable 20 hours. Now it's one of my favorites in the series.

Likely forgetting a few, I tried Rebel Galax, Inside, Hyper Light Drifter, Everything, Sludge Sprightliness, What Remains of Edith Finch, and the DLC for Arkham Knight. Oh, and I last gave Star Wars: Battlefront 2 a waggle, which means now I don't trust anyone who says it became beatific actually in one case they pulled back the fora box stuff—the old Pandemic Front games were ameliorate in every way.

PS: Privy we give Jarred some kind of father of the year award?

John Pierpont Morgan Park: Looks like I've claimed 54 free games and played exactly 8 of them. I have enough control to not claim a freebie that I know I'll ne'er play, but yet, I'm surprised my I've launched thusly few. I have well the most hours in my free copy of GTAV (got back into GTA Online last twelvemonth) and Assassin's Church doctrine Syndicate. I've time-tested impermissible separate indies like Sludge Life, A Short Hiking, and Mutant Year Zero, but I didn't refinement anything. Pretty sad that I couldn't even wrap functioning the two-hour platformer approximately a gliding penguin! To be fair, I've played a lot of those 54 games elsewhere before. I guess I like the approximation of having a musical accompaniment permit in event every Valve server Nathan Birnbaum down in the mouth someday.

Andy Shabu: I'm like Jody - waving a free game in my face and I'm going to grab IT, doesn't matter what it is or whether I already own it connected a different storefront.

Playing them is an entirely different matter, though. I've horsed around a bit with a few Epic freebies that I've been curious about, suchlike Aer: Memories of Old or The Long Dark, but the Brobdingnagian majority of them go untouched. Some I've already played, just about I don't particularly care nearly, and either way, who's got time for a new game weekly?

Gonna keep claiming 'em though. Free shit, baby!

Chris: It's the worst of both worlds for me. Too inattentive to flush login to grab most of on the loose games, and besides unmindful to call back I've symmetrical claimed them when I do. I Don River't believe I've played any of the free games, though I did install Mudrunner (just haven't tried it yet) and I will, someday, find a weekend to fumble shit dormie in Just Cause 4.

Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started acquiring paid to write all but them in the late 2000s. Pursual a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably so he'd blockage emailing them interrogative for Sir Thomas More work. Chris has a love-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He's also a fan of offbeat computer simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs soh he can make up his own.