Free PC game and free weekend notification thread

This is not a free game but I think it is important to many PC gamers who mod their games via Steam (which is, I think, always free).

It’s a tale as old as time: A major update just dropped for one of your favorite games, bringing exciting new features and much-needed overhauls. But in the process, it’s busted all your beloved mods and all your saves that rely on them, forcing you and countless Steam Workshop commenters to wonder how soon mod authors will push updates of their own.

Hopefully, that’s a headache that just got a lot less splitting. Valve just launched new version control options for Steam Workshop, ideally making it much simpler for players to choose compatible mod and game versions—assuming developers and mod creators have configured the necessary options.

Here is Steam’s page on the new change: Steamworks Development - New! Version Control For Steam Workshop Mods - Steam News

We’ll have to wait and see if this delivers but, if it does, it is a very welcome change. I can say I have, more than once, had to deal with my game being broken because an update made some mods no longer work.

And make no mistake, if you can you should be modding your games. So much there to be had which can improve your gaming experience (I generally play at least one time through with no mods and then add mods for future playthroughs although if I were new to a game like Skyrim today I might mod it for a first playthough…YMMV.)

There’s a general PC gaming thread that would be good for that sort of thing.

Free on Epic, Styx: Master of Shadows and Styx: Shards of Darkness

You’re right. I forgot that thread was there when I posted (and I do know it exists…my mistake). If a mod wants to move it that would make sense.

Apologies.

Your second link just goes to the first game.

The link should be: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/styx-shards-of-darkness-77c030

Smart Factory Tycoon isn’t about an intelligent factory tycoon, it’s about a tycoon of a smart factory, i.e. one filled with robots. Whether or not that’s intelligent depends on you. Also, it’s free until the 20th which is always the smart choice.

Assuming there was actually a reason to believe that would be the game they’d be getting, then it makes sense to me. The bigger the game they thought they were getting, the bigger the disappointment.

Epic this week:

Rustler (Grand Theft Horse), a top down open world game inspired by games such as Grand Theft Auto and Bully.

Epic’s freebie for this week:

Definitely Not Fried Chicken

That game reminds me of “Los Pollos Hermanos” from Breaking Bad.

I assumed that

Alone in the Dark 1+2+3 on gog.

Warning: these are old (think 1990’s) but if you want to experience the birth of the survival horror genre, here’s your chance.

Epic’s freebies for this week:

Botany Manor
Poison Retro Set

Poison retro set says it needs a “base game to claim”, without actually saying what the base game is. Although it looks a lot like Minecraft.

The page references “Pixel Gun 3D” multiple times, even in the title graphic for the content itself, it says “PIXEL GUN 3D” at the bottom of the image.

Pixel Gun 3D is indeed the game this is for.

Pixel Gun 3D on Epic Games

And that game is free to play. So, if it looks interesting, get the free set, then hop into the (always free) game.

Twelve hours left to claim Arabian Gulf, an awful looking zombie fighting asset-flip with… Mesoamerican temples? Offer ends at noon CST on the 7th so if you’re lucky you slept through this.

And a few more days to collect Magellania, a “hardcord tactics-RPG set in space” which looks as though it might have its charms. Offer expires on the 9th.

Epic’s freebies for this week:

Nobody Wants to Die
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark

Thanks, those both look good. That first one looks very Blade Runner inspired.