The 10 Best Free Epic Games You Already Missed

The Epic Games Store has been giving away free PC games every week for years. All you need to do is claim a game within the promo window to keep it forever. Wondering if it’s worth checking on any of these games? Well, here are all the best ones you’ve already missed.

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Fallout: New Vegas – Ultimate Edition

Despite a slightly rocky release thanks to some exceptionally bad bugs, Fallout: New Vegas has gone on to be heralded as one of the best in the post-apocalypse RPG series. The Ultimate Edition, which Epic offered for free in 2023, includes four story and two item pack add-ons that were initially released as separate DLC, making this an even better deal if you grabbed it for free.

The latest Football Manager game, Football Manager 2024, was available for free on the Epic Games Store just 9 months after its initial release. If you managed to grab this while it was free, you’d have saved yourself a hefty $60 price tag, and had access to the latest and greatest soccer management simulator—a series that is way more addictive than it sounds like it should be.

8

Control

Control is a mind-bending third-person shooter with a complex story from the developers of Alan Wake. It’s a highly received AAA game that Epic has offered free three times in total. Unlike the usual weekly promotions, this game was twice only available to grab for two days, which goes to show you need to check the free games regularly to make sure you don’t miss a good one.

7

Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines may lack the AAA graphics of some earlier entries, but it’s an impressively complex and malleable city designer that somehow manages to make town planning an addictive and enjoyable endeavor. There are countless bonus add-ons available for this game, with a sequel available as well, but Epic only offered the base game in this promotion. It was well worth grabbing and playing nonetheless.

6

Death Stranding

From the acclaimed Metal Gear Solid director Hideo Kojima, Death Stranding is a bizarre-yet-captivating game that sees you acting as courier in a desolate future. Some have criticized it as little more than a “walking simulator” but there’s much more to it than that, and the story is unlike any other, making it big news when Epic offered it for free for the first time on Christmas day in 2022.

5

Total War: Warhammer

You wouldn’t need to spend countless hours amassing and painting an army of Warhammer figurines before battling with them if you’d grabbed Total War: Warhammer when it was free on the Epic Games store in 2022. There are much more modern Warhammer games—some of which have also been free on Epic—but this was one of the best.

4

Kerbal Space Program

Gaming shouldn’t be rocket science, but Kerbal Space Program makes it so. In this addictive game you get to manage your own space program, designing rockets, launching them, and hoping they make it into orbit without blowing up any goofy green Kerbal aliens. There is immense replay value here, and if you checked the Epic Games Store in January 2023 you’d have gotten it for free.

From commanding an alien space program to taking one on, XCOM 2 has you leading Earth’s defense against an alien invasion, developing your base and commanding troops in turn-based action to do so. This is the acclaimed sequel to 2012’s XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Epic offered it for free for a week in 2022.

2

Dishonored – Definitive Edition

Set in a London-like city at the turn of the 20th century, Dishonored – Definitive Edition is a fantasy RPG from Bethesda that offers impressive choice in developing your character and tackling missions through stealth or combat. It’s a hugely popular game, with an acclaimed sequel, and the Definitive Edition (which includes four add-ons) was available for free at the end of 2022.

1

Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

Fallout 3 may be the oldest game on this list, but it’s also arguably the best. It’s another acclaimed RPG from Bethesda’s popular Fallout series, but this third entry was exceptionally ambitious and well executed, offering countless possibilities for adventure and mayhem after you emerge from your vault into the nuclear wasteland. It’s not too expensive to get now, due to its age, but it’s still a good deal to get it for free if you can!

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Looking at the promo dates on these games, it’s clear to see that Epic’s free offerings aren’t as strong as they once were. Most of the best games were given away in 2022, and not a single free game from 2025 has made it onto my list. Still, a free game is a free game, and you never know when another good one is going to be offered.

To make sure you don’t miss out on any of them, be sure to check into Epic’s store regularly. If you see something you want, all you need to do is sign in to a free account and claim your game while the promotion is running. It’ll stay in your library as long as you want, even if you don’t plan to play it for years.