Two (three?) games free on Epic Games - Blazing Sails & Q.U.B.E. ULTIMATE BUNDLE
Two (three?) games free on Epic Games - Blazing Sails & Q.U.B.E. ULTIMATE BUNDLE
Blazing Sails
URL: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/blazing-sails
Fight for survival in Blazing Sails, a fast-paced pirate PvP game! Create your own unique pirate and ship. Band together with other players to command your mighty vessel! Explore different game-modes, maps, weapons, ship types and more while eliminating other crews in epic battles on land and sea!
Steam reviews: 89%
Q.U.B.E. ULTIMATE BUNDLE
URL: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/bundles/qube-ultimate-bundle
Contains two games:
Q.U.B.E. 10th Anniversary
Entirely rebuilt from the ground up, Q.U.B.E. 10th Anniversary is the ultimate celebration of the decade-old original, bringing refined visuals, completely redesigned and revised gameplay sections, and a whole new chapter to the award-winning, brain-twisting first-person puzzler.
Set in a mysterious and abstract sterile environment, Q.U.B.E. (Quick Understanding of Block Extrusion) is a first-person puzzle game that challenges you to navigate each level by manipulating colored cubes that surround you.
Steam reviews: 92%
Q.U.B.E. 2 Deluxe Edition
The Deluxe Edition gives players access to all released content including Q.U.B.E. 2 Main Game and the Season Pass (Two Puzzles Pack, Original Soundtrack and Glove Skin).
You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has awoken among the ruins of an ancient alien landscape. With the distant help of another survivor you must solve the puzzles of this mysterious world and find a way back home.
Steam reviews: 84%
It's funny, as often as I see these posts about free games on the Epic Games Store, I still have absolutely no desire to ever install or use it.
Yeah they burned me a few times in the past by acquiring games/studios and breaking their Linux compatibility immediately after getting them. I'll hold this grudge for decades.
I've enjoyed a few of them with my young kids The Lego one was fun, Dodo Peak is another nice introduction puzzle game, and Beyond Blue is educational and beautiful.
There are quite a few more that I might check out at some point. I slightly regret not jumping on the free games bandwagon earlier since I missed some great ones, but I have enough of a games library across many platforms that I never need to buy another game for the rest of my life and I won't beat them all, so whatever.
Pikuniku is a brilliant little puzzle adventure game, too. I don't know exactly when it was available for free in the Epic store.
I once used it as a demo for a game before buying it on Steam.
Seeing as 'Storefront Exclusivity' on pc games was a part of EGS's plan, they can keep their free games.
Plus, I remember an indie dev talking about how they tried to strong-arm him into going exclusive to them with ultimatums.
"You're either only on EGS or you're not it at all." That kinda shit.
Similar for me. I always redeem them. But honestly don’t think I’ll ever use or play any of them.
I enjoyed a few of them. GtaV, or Borderlands 3 (altough part 2 will be my favorite part forever)
Civ6 was merely only a demo version, and TW:Troy really sucked and helped me save some bucks.But mostly I just add them in the hope that Tencent will pay a few cents to The developers who created those games in the first place.
But I won't buy anything there. Games that are only sold via this platform don't exist.Qube shows unavailable.
Same for me. And the individual games have prices > 0.
EDIT: 15 minutes later, now it works.
I had to use an incognito window for it to be claimable, I imagine some weirdness on their website because it's a bundle