Dead Man's Draw

You need to own one of the following games:

Now to get the game:

  1. Go to https://www.stardock.com/ and login with your Steam account. Enter your email and validate it.
  2. Start any of the games and the Stardock game launcher opens. Look for a Free Game button which will open a page on the Stardock website https://prnt.sc/qwct6j. Alternative without the need to install any of the games go to https://www.stardock.com/games/promotions?providerappid=<appid>&promoid=freedmd&providertypeid=2&providerid=<steamid>. Replace <steamid> with your steamID64 and <appid> with one of the app ids that you own.
  3. Validate your email again and get your Steam key for the game.

The Stardock server is under heavy load. You need to wait a few hours for your validation mails. Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion was available for free in December 2018 so most should own this one. It might be that you need some playtime in the game. Either start the game or use an idler to get that.

You can also get Offworld Trading Company but this is only free multiplayer not full game. So don't make giveaways for the full game. Discussion

[edit] updated with the tips provided in the thread
[edit2] added info about Offworld and server load
[edit3] seems some users have exploited the system and there are no more keys for the rest

4 years ago*

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Lol just woke up, opened my phone and saw the validation emails waiting for me. It worked for Dead Man's Draw and the site validation, but i got an unexpected error when i clicked the validate button for Trading Company. Oh well, i wanted DMD more anyway..

4 years ago
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Same for me. At least one more game. 😅
Thank you for the post

4 years ago
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Nope... I got the below

"An error occured.
Sorry, there was an unexpected error processing your request. Please try again later.

If this problem continues please contact support@stardock.com for assistance."

4 years ago
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same

4 years ago
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Yup, same thing. Tried both methods and got the same error. Yet there are people getting tens of copies.

4 years ago
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Does not send account validation e-mail link and login gets stuck.

4 years ago
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Give them some time. Validation email I received in 2 or 3 hours. Tried 2 times with different emails - both times got same message as sbenrap.

4 years ago
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Yeah. But too late. During promo site was screwed wouldn't login at all.

4 years ago
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I own a bunch of the games on the list and it doesn't even show up at all in the launcher, lol. Not for Sins of Solar Empire: Rebellion, Offworld Trading Company, or Galactic Civilizations III.

4 years ago
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A friendly and sincere EAT SHIT to all people who exploit the website.
Yes I mean you guys creating GA's of this game with multiple copies.
Damn.. its hard to keep my blacklist empty with people like that....

4 years ago
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"Sorry, this promotion has ended."
Can not agree with you more.

4 years ago
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Pretty much, yes.

4 years ago
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The biggest problem is that it does drop cards. Cards farmers and +1 hunters are easily gonna exploit something even for 0.03 of profit

4 years ago
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Promotion has ended and no validation email... - http://prntscr.com/qwwlyn

4 years ago
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Marked it as ended. Thanks for the info.

4 years ago
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As an example...one guy here on SG is giving away 79 copies of this game IN TOTAL so far during this promotion. This is just beyond scummy. No one wants to try to get one here when they could have just picked one up on their Stardock account if it hadn't been ravaged by your bots.

4 years ago
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game will prob have 0 CV
i hope it will soon
edit:
it has already
at least this mods can do
i wonder if he knows

4 years ago
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Yeah, I saw that it was 0 CV. They probably do gain levels on some of the ones that mods miss, that's why they do it. =(

4 years ago
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They may not get CV but it does still falsely improve their ratio and increase their total number of giveaways.

4 years ago
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I'm not even going to enter any of these despite wanting it. I'd rather go buy it later than give them whatever satisfaction they get stealing freebies. I couldn't get the verification email because of these jackasses.

4 years ago
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I feel the same way.

4 years ago
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no cv, no satisfaction here

4 years ago
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I can't imagine they could be bothered to read that. Prolly in for a slew of "why didn't my level go up" threads/comments.

4 years ago
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The one user I mentioned just added another giveaway for 26 copies for a total of 105 copies. This is insane lol.

4 years ago
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he should just get banned for being a disgusting human lol.

4 years ago
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Unfortunately, it's not against the rules.

Copies of 0 CV games should be limited to 5 per account, so that even if they hoard 100's they can't make GAs for them. That would stop the madness. We still get them in bundles and some of them are pretty good games. I just think that putting a limit on it would deter people from botting the keys just to boost their GA ratio, or whatever they're doing.

4 years ago
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"Sorry, this promotion has ended."

4 years ago
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Same. While I did got the 2nd confirmation email, when I clicked the link nothing happened. blank page. no errors.
then tried the promo link and I got the promotion ended message.

If they didn't delayed the emails for so long maybe I would had.. they did got our info on the spot tho.
I know, I know, it was free, but it wasn't if we didn't get it, just gave away our email & steam data.. Think about that :P
ps. not directed to you SILPH, just general rambling.. sorry!

4 years ago
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Step 2 of posting the url link with fields filled bypassing direct launch is now throwing error. Seems launching downloading is needed now. My Windows and PC is screwed up running steam directly is out of question.

Thar be a problem
If you are a first time customer of Stardock Games (through Steam), we request that you first fully open a Stardock Game through Steam. You may have come here directly from our game launcher, but it will help us greatly if you can first enter the game. This will help us validate your credentials with Steam so that we may get you your free copy of Dead Man's Draw.

Once you opened the game, please return to this page and refresh it and you should be able to continue.

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4 years ago
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thanks, i still need 300 more keys for my bots but i'm sure they will restock soon ^^

to everyone crying that users are making mass giveaways with these keys (and it's selfish and unfair and abuse of keys and etc, etc.), you can thank people that said YES to cg when he asked to implement free games in giveaways. 👏

4 years ago
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To be fair, cg didn't ask until you suggested it... 👏😅

4 years ago
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T_T

View attached image.
4 years ago
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Go wash your feet.

4 years ago
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I got the validation e-mail late last night (for both DMD and Offworld), but both just give a 403 error when I try to load them.

4 years ago
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Closed 4 years ago by at46.