# 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:** 91
**Author:** ![superwombat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superwombat/32/16616_2.png) [@superwombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superwombat)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1805 "2023-03-21T17:16:46Z")
Lorelai is free on GOG > **[Lorelai](https://www.gog.com/en/game/lorelai)** > > Lorelai will never forget that day. The little she had, it was taken away. Her whole ---
**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:** [March 23, 2023, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1806 "2023-03-23T13:13:54Z")
CHKN used to be a $20 early access game but the devs decided that whatever the game was lacking wasn’t going to be fixed with more twenty dollar bills and made it free a couple of days ago. https://store.steampowered.com/widget/420930 ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1807 "2023-03-23T17:17:50Z")
This week on Epic [Chess Ultra](https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/chess-ultra-91bba3), a game I will play and lose once, and then remember I hate chess. There’s also some other starter pack for World of Tanks to try and get people to try that free game again. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1808 "2023-03-23T17:58:37Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > There’s also some other starter pack for World of Tanks to try and get people to try that free game again. I hope the pack is called Tanks A Lot. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2023, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1809 "2023-03-23T18:06:22Z")
Sludge Life is free on Steam until the 30th https://store.steampowered.com/widget/1144770 ---
**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:** [March 23, 2023, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1810 "2023-03-23T18:41:14Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > There’s also some other starter pack for World of Tanks to try and get people to try that free game again. It’s World of Warships. Used to play it and it is fun and looks great but the grind is real to tempt you into spending money. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1811 "2023-03-23T19:07:00Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > It’s World of Warships. Damn, it is, so isn’t the human mind weird that I changed that name without even realising it? ---
**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:** [March 24, 2023, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1812 "2023-03-24T05:22:40Z")
There’s a diablo 4 open beta this weekend on the [battle.net](http://battle.net) client ---
**Author:** ![superwombat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superwombat/32/16616_2.png) [@superwombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superwombat)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1813 "2023-03-24T17:34:17Z")
Free on GOG: > **[Neurodeck: Psychological Deckbuilder](https://www.gog.com/game/neurodeck_psychological_deckbuilder?link_id=sale_banner_main&track_click=1&utm_campaign=20230324_nl_Spring_Sale_EN&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=EN&r=true)** > > Neurodeck : Psychological Deckbuilder Demo is available here > > > > > > > > Features > Deck ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1814 "2023-03-24T17:42:59Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > There’s a diablo 4 open beta this weekend No! Hush! 🤫 I don’t want other people making the queue worse for me! 😜 (The game is fantastic, I already preordered and played the closed beta last weekend, but finally this weekend we get to try the Druid and Necromancer classes.) ---
**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:** [March 24, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1815 "2023-03-24T19:04:36Z")
80GB download. The weekend might be over before it finishes. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1816 "2023-03-24T19:13:47Z")
That’s why you download ahead of time, you don’t need to wait until it opens. I usually do it a day or two earlier. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2023, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1817 "2023-03-24T21:38:21Z")
You can turn off the high res texture option in the installer to cut the download in half. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1818 "2023-03-24T23:16:43Z")
Be careful of Diablo IV, it has demons. > **[RTX 3080 Ti GPUs Are Mysteriously Dying On Diablo IV Beta](https://www.tomshardware.com/news/rtx-3080-ti-gpus-are-mysteriously-dying-on-diablo-iv-beta)** > > Lilith's reaping RTX 3080 Ti souls. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1819 "2023-03-24T23:56:38Z")
thanks for that @JaneDoe42 and her husband were involved in the closed beta and she said the game’s a hell of a lotta fun if youre a diablo fan and a lot of the good stuff in the diablo mobile game ended up in it in "expanded forms ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2023, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1820 "2023-03-25T01:19:15Z")
Thanks for the warning, so far so good. Hubs is still having a great time with it. He gets kicked every so often which is good because it means he has go get up and move around. I’ve played with my session but mostly I’ve been offline because our internet suckz. Crappy connections are the price we pay to live in the sticks. (One of them, that is.) I can remember playing DI using dial-up so I can’t complain that much! Both of us have pre-ordered it and we’ve been seeing evidence of high speed internet cables being installed at the junction, so hopefully someday we will be able to play at the same time…cause sometimes he just needs killing. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1821 "2023-03-25T01:36:57Z")
Rather than make **this** thread all about D4, I’ve created a new thread here for it: > [@Diablo 4, cross-platform, now in beta](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-4-cross-platform-now-in-beta/981620): > > The open beta is [running now through the weekend](https://diablo4.blizzard.com/en-us/beta), free for anyone to try. Who has preordered the game, who has played it in beta, what do you think so far? I’ve preordered the regular version of the game (the perks for the more expensive versions are just some cosmetics and 4 days early start, not worth it to me). I played the closed beta last weekend and really enjoyed the Sorceress class. This weekend I tried the Druid, which I thought was prop but was disappointed. I am playing a Necroma… ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2023, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1822 "2023-03-25T02:28:33Z")
> [@Galactus](#): > > Be careful of Diablo IV, it has demons. > [RTX 3080 Ti GPUs Are Mysteriously Dying On Diablo IV Beta | Tom's Hardware](https://www.tomshardware.com/news/rtx-3080-ti-gpus-are-mysteriously-dying-on-diablo-iv-beta) Good tip from the article: > Nvidia GeForce owners can limit the frame rates on their graphics cards through the Nvidia control panel. The “Max Frame Rate” option resides in the “Global Setting” tab right under the “Manage 3D settings” section. One of the games I have on deck to play next is Stranded Deep, but I was bummed to discover that even my lowly 3050 was going over 1500 FPS on the menu screen. I had planned to try and find an FPS limiter option in the game, but it looks like I don’t have to worry anymore. I can just set it globally to 144 to match my monitor and never think about it again. ---
**Author:** ![superwombat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superwombat/32/16616_2.png) [@superwombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superwombat)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1823 "2023-03-29T17:17:01Z")
Free on GOG: > **[Alwa's Awakening](https://www.gog.com/en/game/alwas_awakening)** > > In Alwa's Awakening you play as Zoe, a heroine sent from another world to bring peace ---
**Author:** ![superwombat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superwombat/32/16616_2.png) [@superwombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superwombat)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513/1824 "2023-03-30T16:27:27Z")
Today on Epic: [https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-silent-age-eb6972](https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-silent-age-eb6972) [https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/tunche](https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/tunche) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513.md?page=90) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-pc-game-and-free-weekend-notification-thread/704513.md?page=92)