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Epic gives away games for free. It might be the only reason you have the Epic Games Store launcher installed on your PC — that certainly seems to be the case for a lot of die-hard Steam fans. But whether you actually use the store or just grab the freebies, you’ll want to check out this week’s free game Dragon Age Inquisition, and maybe take a gander at some of the deep discounts in the latest sale.
Dragon Age Inquisition is the third game in Bioware’s fantasy RPG series, the more swords and sorcery side of the coin opposite Mass Effect. And it’s been a good while since they made one — Inquisition came out all the way back in 2014, also released on consoles as old as the Xbox 360 if you can believe it. Even so, it was hailed as a great sequel (particularly following the ho-hum Dragon Age II) and a treat for RPG fans who wanted good writing as well as focused action gameplay.
As always with Epic giveaways, you can claim it for the next week (ending next Thursday, May 23rd) and keep it associated with your account forever, to download and play whenever you want. Not bad for a game that still goes for $40 on Steam, and this “GOTY Edition” includes all the extra DLC missions and the goodies they made you pay extra for at launch. Not bad.
As for the sale itself, it’s a smaller selection of titles than usual, but it seems to be focused on big AAA games from huge publishers, the kind of thing that always gets top slot in my YouTube advertising. Notably there are a lot of Sony-published games here that used to be PlayStation exclusives. Here are the games I’d hop on if I had a lot more free time than I do (and hadn’t played several of them already):
Dead Space (remake) $59.99 $20.99
God of War $49.99 $24.99
Horizon Zero Dawn Complete $49.99 $12.49
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown $49.99 $29.99
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart $59.99 $35.99
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands $59.99 $14.99
And the rest of the discounts, if your tastes aren’t a good match for mine:
Alan Wake II $39.99
Assassin’s Creed Mirage $24.99
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla $11.99
Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition $53.59
Dead Island 2 $29.99
Dying Light 2 $29.99
EA Sports FC 24 $13.99
Expeditions: A Mudrunner Game $31.99
Far Cry 6 $14.99
Grand Theft Auto V $14.99
Hogwarts Legacy $29.99
Lord of the Rings Return to Moria $17.49
Lords of the Fallen $34.99
Mortal Kombat 1 $34.99
Red Dead Redemption II $23.99
Remnant II $29.99
Skull and Bones $29.99
Spider-Man Remastered $35.99
Spider-Man: Miles Morales $29.99
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League $27.99
The Crew Motorfest $34.99
The Last of Us Part 1 $40.19
Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection $24.99
Witchfire $35.99
You’ve got plenty of time to pick one of these games up…or wait for the other game stores to offer the same discount. The sale runs until June 13th.
Author: Michael Crider, Staff Writer
Michael is a former graphic designer who’s been building and tweaking desktop computers for longer than he cares to admit. His interests include folk music, football, science fiction, and salsa verde, in no particular order.
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