# Free PC game and free weekend notification thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** video-games-e-games\ **Created:** [November 13, 2014, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513 "2014-11-13T08:16:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/181 "2017-05-11T18:26:57Z")
Thanks. I seem to recall almost purchasing that one several times. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/182 "2017-05-12T01:52:18Z")
[Mirage: Arcane Warfare](http://steamcommunity.com/games/219640/announcements/detail/2354665546101122269) open beta this weekend. It’s by the people who made Chivalry, it has melee weapon combat with magic to augment it. I’ve been playing the closed beta and it’s pretty fun. I’ll be organizing games tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Unpronounceable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de0a6/32.png) [@Unpronounceable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unpronounceable)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/183 "2017-05-12T02:36:55Z")
GOG is giving away [Eador: Genesis](https://www.gog.com/game/eador_genesis) at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/184 "2017-05-12T13:31:13Z")
Not sure how far buried the general “deals” thread is but I didn’t see it… Alan Wake will be on sale tomorrow for 90% off on Steam. Come Monday, it’s being removed from the store due to expiring music licenses. So, if you don’t own it and ever thought you might want to, this is your last chance. Even once removed, you still keep the game in your library and can re-install it, etc like any other game. It just won’t be available for purchasing. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/185 "2017-05-12T17:33:32Z")
Are you sure you will be able to keep the music? > **[Hooray For Licenses! Update Strips 17 Songs From Steam Users' Purchased...](https://www.techdirt.com/2014/11/11/hooray-licenses-update-strips-17-songs-steam-users-purchased-copies-grand-theft-auto-san-andreas/)** > > Part One Billion in “You Don’t Own What You Pay For,” the ongoing saga in which paying customers purchasing “licenses” find themselves in possession of products inferi… ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/186 "2017-05-12T18:22:41Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Are you sure you will be able to keep the music? > > [Hooray For Licenses! Update Strips 17 Songs From Steam Users' Purchased Copies Of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | Techdirt](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141110/09535529096/hooray-licenses-update-strips-17-songs-steam-users-purchased-copies-grand-theft-auto-san-andreas.shtml) If it’s straight up removed from the store, you should. They’re no longer distributing “new” copies of the songs. I believe the GTA scenario was so they could just keep selling the game and was easier than differentiating between old and new copies. Mafia II went off the store for a while and returned as a new package on Steam with some songs removed but, as far as I know, people who own the old package still have the complete song list. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/187 "2017-05-13T12:16:00Z")
As of 8 AM EDT, it’s still at $30 on steam. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/188 "2017-05-13T14:04:26Z")
Steam sales usually start at noon CST so I’d expect it then. Here’s a blurb about it from Engadget: > [@](#): > > One of Alan Wake’s best features was its licensed soundtrack, and now the tunes developer Remedy Entertainment carefully curated are causing a bit of grief. Remedy’s rights to The Black Angels’ “Young Men Dead” and “Up Jumped The Devil” from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (among others) are expiring, and with them, so must Alan Wake itself. Remedy tweeted that because of this, the game will be delisted from Steam and other digital storefronts after May 15th. > > To make sure everyone who wants to play it still has a chance to, Remedy will discount the game by a whopping 90 percent on Steam. It’s going for $30 at time of publication, so when the sale starts tomorrow the price should drop to $3. Oh, and if you’re buying it, don’t forget to hit the jukebox in the game’s diner early on for an easy achievement/trophy for playing “Lime in the Coconut.” Edit: According to the embedded Tweet [in that article](https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/12/alan-wake-delisted-from-steam-sorry-barry/), it does indeed start at 12 CST/10 PST ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/189 "2017-05-13T23:02:12Z")
Alan Wake sale is live now. Be sure you get the Franchise, which includes Alan Wake, American Nightmare, and Collector’s Edition Extra, all for $3.99 total. For some reason, they are also offering AW and AN separately for $2.99 and $3.99 respectively. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/190 "2017-05-13T23:17:03Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Alan Wake sale is live now. Be sure you get the Franchise, which includes Alan Wake, American Nightmare, and Collector’s Edition Extra, all for $3.99 total. For some reason, they are also offering AW and AN separately for $2.99 and $3.99 respectively. That’s exactly what I just did. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/191 "2017-05-14T01:29:12Z")
American Nightmare isn’t on sale by itself. But I think that the licensing issue doesn’t affect it so it’s not on the block for delisting, hence no separate AN fire sale without buying AW. My understanding of the situation is that the developers felt the music was too integral to the AW story to strip it out and the game doesn’t sell well enough any longer (it came out in 2012) to justify renewing licenses on the music so they’d rather see it delisted than put out a bastardized version without those tracks. ---
**Author:** ![Unpronounceable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de0a6/32.png) [@Unpronounceable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unpronounceable)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/192 "2017-05-20T18:35:30Z")
Mount & Blade is free on GOG this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Unpronounceable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de0a6/32.png) [@Unpronounceable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unpronounceable)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/193 "2017-05-22T21:01:40Z")
And now Steam is giving away [Starpoint Gemini 2](http://store.steampowered.com/app/236150/Starpoint_Gemini_2/) ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/194 "2017-05-25T18:10:10Z")
Rising Storm GOTY is available for free though Humble Store > **[Buy Rising Storm Game of the Year Edition from the Humble Store](https://www.humblebundle.com/store/rising-storm-game-of-the-year-edition)** > > INCLUDES ALL RED ORCHESTRA 2 MULTIPLAYER CONTENT! Rising Storm is the next game in the award-winning Red Orchestra franchise. You know the great gameplay, innovative features and realistic audio and graphics of RO2 - Rising Storm will take this to... ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/195 "2017-05-26T12:15:12Z")
Free Fallout 4 weekend at Steam. One must buy the game to continue playing after the weekend but the whole thing (game + season pass) can be had for $50. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/196 "2017-06-03T10:35:58Z")
Not quite free but Football Manager 2/3 off on Steam. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/197 "2017-06-07T03:10:29Z")
[Outland is free on Steam](http://store.steampowered.com/app/305050/Outland/) right now. Not sure if it is any good but it has positive reviews. Also, [Battleborn has a free trial or free-to-play](http://store.steampowered.com/app/394230/Battleborn/) (not sure which) thing going on. I think they are an Overwatch wannabe. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/198 "2017-06-07T13:48:04Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I think they are an Overwatch wannabe. Not really; they’re two distinctly different types of game but they had the misfortune (for BB) of coming out at the same time and with cartoonish characters and everyone assumed and promoted the idea that BB was just a low rent Overwatch. That said, I’m not claiming that BB is a good game. I haven’t played it but my son owns it and played it for maybe two days before getting bored. Fortunately, I got it for the X1 for $5 on a “Well, hard NOT to get five bucks out of a game” premise. Anyway, the BB “free to play” is only its multiplayer which won’t do much to dispel comparisons since no one can try its single player story mode. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/199 "2017-06-08T01:59:53Z")
[Mirage: Arcane Warfare](http://steamcommunity.com/games/368420/announcements/detail/1333476769479924552) is having a free weekend. It’s by the people who made Chivalry - it’s a melee/magic first person game. It had a weird launch where it got no mention on the steam page or anything and flopped, so they’re getting out an early free weekend to get some publicity. Anyway, it’s a lot of fun. It has most of the good things about chivalry and fixed a lot of the bad stuff. I definitely recommend giving it a try. I’ll be organizing some games over the weekend so contact me on steam if interested. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/200 "2017-06-08T13:13:29Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > [Outland is free on Steam](http://store.steampowered.com/app/305050/Outland/) right now. Not sure if it is any good but it has positive reviews. I picked up two copies, one for my wife’s Steam account and one for mine. The co-op is online only for some reaso. Zero local co-op. Dumb. My wife now owns two games. Portal 2 and Outland. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513.md?page=11)