This thread will no longer be updated.

This used to be a thread called "Limited time, 100% Free-to-keep PC games right now", where I, together with many helpful members of the community, documented which PC games were free to claim at any given moment. I started it when the COVID-19 pandemic started in the whole world and developers/publishers were doing promotions faster than one could keep track of everything. Since the situation is calmer now, keeping track of things to that level isn't needed.

The thread is now a free games news thread which relies on comments to function - if you find an interesting offer for a free game, feel free to comment and let others know! Here I have also put links to useful places where you can find out about and/or collect free games as they appear.

Comment Formatting Guide

When commenting, please put the full name of the game/promotion, which platform it is on, and a link to the promotion/the relevant SG thread.
For example "Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge free on Steam [link to Steam page]"

Useful Links

Steam

SteamDB page for free Steam promotions - follow this page to know every upcoming or ongoing free-to-keep or free weekend Steam game.

SG thread for free Steam soundtracks - a thread that collects free soundtracks you can claim on Steam.

SG thread for paid-now-free Steam games of 2020 - thread that collects Steam games that are now free to get (as FreeOnDemand)
Paid-now-free Steam games of 2019

Epic Games

Free games page on Epic Games Store - Epic Games Store's own page for their free game promotions.

SG thread for free Epic Games promotions - follow this thread to find out about and discuss new free games on Epic.

A Total War Saga: TROY Epic Games promo - the game will be free-to-keep on Epic Games on August 13th.

GOG

GOG Free Games Collection - a collection of free games to claim on GOG.
Higurashi 1 free game promotion - another game GOG is offering for free during the COVID-19 pandemic.

IndieGala

galaFreebies - IndieGala's own page for freebies from their website

IndieGala showcase - IndieGala's own page where they collect games you can claim for free on their website.

SG thread for free IndieGala games - follow this thread to find out about new, free games on IndieGala.

itch.io

Self-isolation on a budget - an itch.io collection that collected games one could claim for free during the COVID-19 pandemic. No longer updated, but contains a few games that are still free.

SG thread for free itch.io games - thread collecting games to claim for free on itch.io for a limited time.

Microsoft

Top free games on Microsoft Store - not a page but a search filter, this will show some free games able to be claimed on the Microsoft Store. (May not be all of them)

Uplay

Ubisoft Free Events page - Ubisoft's page for their own free game promotions.

Other links

Big Fish free games page - a collection of free games Big Fish are offering during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Crusader Kings II free DLC promotion - sign up to the newsletter to receive a Steam key for The Old Gods DLC, or refer people to get the Pagan Fury music pack.
Endless Space Collection free promotion - link your Games2Gether account to your Steam account to receive Endless Space Collection on Steam for free.

Currently free games on Steam (no new games will be added, these will be removed as they end)

Game Start End ASF command Info
Wide Cross ? ? !addlicense ASF 345425 Works using SteamDB
The Scream ? ? !addlicense ASF 369917 Works using SteamDB
Tennis World Tour - Denis Shapovalov 2020-04-23 16:00 UTC 2020-12-01 18:00 UTC !addlicense ASF 454711 -
Tennis World Tour - Alex De Minaur 2020-04-23 16:00 UTC 2020-12-01 18:00 UTC !addlicense ASF 454715 -
Tennis World Tour - Caroline Garcia 2020-04-23 16:00 UTC 2020-12-01 18:00 UTC !addlicense ASF 454706 -
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Kingdom: Classic free here if you scroll down and sign up for their email newsletter https://rawfury.com/

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i never received a key

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Me neither

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Lost Daughter is free until April 20th
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1008690/Lost_Daughter/

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Happy cake day! =)

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Im fairly sure Gamecraft went free-2-play in the store instead of a limited time free purchase. They either messed up their PR and its F2P now, or messed up their store settings.

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I'm seeing the 0 cost "add to account" thing though, so is it not free-to-keep right now?

The reason why I never removed it before is because they intended to make the promotion free-to-keep and I wanted to see what happened when it went free.

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Well it did eventually show up inthe library this afternoon after what 18 hours?

Until then it behaved like a F2P game with only getting listed after a store page install.

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Looks OK?

They did have a promotion before they changed name and that license was free on demand. I removed mine and added the +1 instead. :)

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Borderlands Goty Will be free as i read the news on the site check it out

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It's free weekend (6 days), not free-to-keep source

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ah . thanks

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overcooked 2 dlcs give error when trying to add them.

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do you own the base game?

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nope, I thought you could add it even if you don't have the base game

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Thanks for updating this thread!

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Promo link: grabfreegame.com
Name: Hunter's Arena: Legends (Alpa) for Beta Testing
Sub: sub/387735

2889 2797 (after 45m) keys left in time when I writing this

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"Alpa for Beta Testing"? Not something to add to the chart then?

Also the name of that site might be the most suspicious name of a site I've seen (though I'm sure you wouldn't mention it if it wasn't legit)

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Nope, It's not for your chart, just to mention (i got 11 blacklists by posting free games as separate threads, so I'm not gonna even bother) it here (since it require additional steps (login with steam open id, add another game to wishlist)), and yes, name of the site seems little sketchy, but I grabed from that site some keys and they worked just fine

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It's a legit site that i don't use but not allowed at sg because you need to do tasks there...

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Where is the line drawn for tasks? You'd need to do things to get diamonds on Lootboy too, right? Asking because I didn't know about this.

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My best guess is point 16 from Guidelines

16 . Third party giveaways that require or reward users for performing profitable actions. For example, linking to a giveaway on another service that requires or incentivizes users to click a referral link, like a Facebook page, follow a Twitter account, join a Steam group, complete a survey, sign-up for a newsletter, or make a donation.

Note: There is no profit for me from this 3rd party GA

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Yes, thats the rule.

you missunderstood me, i don't say that you have a profit from it.
I only brought the rule up that you don't come into trouble with the staff.

And besides that are the most of the sites with tasks complete crap, some "ok" and only very very very few of them are "good".

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buzmen listed it

And yes, as example lootboy is for me unclear too because you open at the tasks for the gems other ref links (world of warships as example) but i think it is ok because you aren't forced to follow, whitelist and such stuff. You are able to open it and close it without to do something.

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11 blacklists just for that? Wow I don't even have so many in total :/

I don't mind the free game-threads because I think they can be a bit more visible than this thread and they're also a good place for discussion about the specific free games. I know people are really salty about it though and just want this one to be here. :s

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Well Grabfreegame is a bit like Gleam.io and other giveaway sites with Steam OpenID login and tasks needed to be preformed, but its a bit overboard.

The actual giveaway pages feature random and possibly shady advertisements, coupled with their use of third party websites for the task tracking that simply doesnt function if you dont turn off all ad and script blockers. Their tasks also include downloading random apps on your mobile, and registering and doing stuff on random flash game sites. And again all the while their tracking middleware breaks with any kind of script blocking, so you need to go on these sites naked.

...Just to get Asset Flip Simulator like garbage, or at the very best some very old Topware Interactive game keys like Gorky 17 and Knights and Merchants.

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+1

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Yes, since that moment I don't care about posting infos about new free games on this site ;)

Edit, since I posted this external GA here I earned 2 new blacklists, yay me!

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Jeez it's really that easy then huh. I'm just going to accept that I'm the least controversial person on the site.

I have you on my whitelist for helping me so much at least!

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WL from me, you're doing a lot for the community (e.g. Itch.io thread) which perhaps not everyone notices.

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You aren't long enough at the site and don't said something against the opinion of the "masses".

I am at 189 BL but 440 WL :o)

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and don't said something against the opinion of the "masses"

It doesn't even take anything like that. Some will blacklist if something you wrote could in some way be seen as not being 100% for the one pet peeve of that particular person. Or because you gave away the wrong kind of games or have too many games or have an annoying user name. Well, you get the picture.

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Oh i know that but the most impact are to have a own opinion ;o)

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People will blacklist for any reason imaginable. I stopped using the blacklist long ago. Anyway, since my whitelist is mostly ratio-based and your ratio is pretty damn good - welcome! ^^

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Hey thank you, it has been returned! That put me at a total of 100 whitelists :o

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Anyway to add the 2 dlcs for Overcooked without owning Overcooked 2?

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No.

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Thanks Champ:)

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Free, but will be changing to paid on April 30th

Paid version will include all 100 levels. But doesn't disclose the final price. The DLC is currently 45% off.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227750/Puzzle__LINES_AND_KNOTS/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1231340/LINES_AND_KNOTS_80_levels/

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1227750/announcements/detail/3278000488974539576

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Ooof, at first, I thought you were suggesting the dev did this before. Oops. But yeah, same concept. LOOP is much better I would suggest.

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Yeah, it was a jab at the dev. 🙃

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Thanks for the heads up! Looks like a fun game.

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Thanks, crackdown was great.

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Microsoft requires credit-card information - for a free game. So no.

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Prepaid debit card works, too.

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Very nice. Thanks.

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Geneshift: Battle Royale Turbo

  • Start Time: 11 May 2020 – 17:00:00 UTC
  • Expiry Time: 13 May 2020 – 17:00:00 UTC
  • !addlicense ASF 453175

Source

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dang, may 13? they really planned that super far away. thats weird that they would do that, cuz now people who know it def wouldnt buy their game if they know its going to be free soon. makes me think they wont have sales for the next month now. kinda screws them over

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May 11th, but it's not that they announce it - it's just scheduled on the backend.

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Tru

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Manual Samuel deal ended.

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Borderlands enhanced edition is apparently 100% free to keep right now.

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Nope, only free weekend.

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Cities: Skylines Parklife DLC free until April 26th with instructions here, must own the base game to claim it: https://steamcommunity.com/games/255710/announcements/detail/3431122876670907810

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Monopoly Plus (Uplay) soonish...

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This thread is for limited time, free to keep. That game is just free weekend.

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Sorry, I thought it was free to keep.

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For The King now live!

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Tennis World Tour - DLC 13 - De Minaur
https://steamdb.info/sub/454715/
Now free to keep!

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In order to claim these (DLC 11, 13, & 14), you must first own the Base Game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/692030/Tennis_World_Tour

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Tennis World Tour - DLC 14 - Shapovalov
https://steamdb.info/sub/454711/
Now free to keep!

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Tennis World Tour - DLC 11 - Garcia
https://steamdb.info/sub/454706/
Now free to keep!

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I, uh... they expire in December. Now I'm a bit conflicted. They technically fit but seriously... Does everyone want me to add them anyway?

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Why not

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it's 27 april on steam page

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Happy cake day JD01 :)

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For the King is now free on Epic Games, and Just Cause 4/Wheels of Aurelia have ended.

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Unless time travel exists, it's gonna be hard for For The King to end before it begins. Correcting the promotion's ending date to April 30th might help though. :)

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The dangers of messing up some numbers, now I've accidentally invented time travel.

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I'm sure you can fix it by yesterday

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PAC-MAN™ CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION 2

  • Start: April 24, 2020 17:00 UTC
  • End: May 10, 2020 17:00 UTC
  • !addlicense ASF 93451 (package still not confirmed)

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Happy cakes!

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!addlicense ASF 455317

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