Whenever the Epic Games Store has a big sales event going on, Epic likes to promote it with a special mystery game event. The Epic Mega Sale is live now, and so Epic has started giving away free mystery games every week to keep users coming back. The first free mystery game was looter-shooter Borderlands 3, which set the bar high for the rest of the Epic Games Store free mystery games.
Every Thursday at 10:00am CT, the Epic Games Store swaps out the free game. Usually the Epic Games Store uses the opportunity to not only give its users the chance to claim a new game for their digital libraries, but it also reveals what's coming next week. While the mystery game promotion is going on, Epic Games Store users won't be clued in on the next free game; instead all they see is a vault and countdown clock for its reveal.
In any case, the free Epic Games Store mystery game for May 26 has now been revealed, with users having until next Thursday, June 2 at 10:00am CT to claim it. The current Epic Games Store free mystery game is none other than BioShock: The Collection, which gives players access to some of the highest-rated games ever made.
Epic Games Store Free Games Right Now
- BioShock: The Collection (May 26 - June 2)
BioShock: The Collection, for the uninitiated, features remastered versions of the original BioShock, BioShock 2, and BioShock Infinite, all in one convenient package. The visual upgrades for BioShock and BioShock 2 are especially obvious, making the two atmospheric games look that much better. BioShock and BioShock Infinite stand out as two of the industry's most critically-acclaimed games of all time, while BioShock 2 is popular in its own right, even if it didn't reach quite the same heights as the other games.
Before the Epic Games Store revealed the May 26 free game to be BioShock: The Collection, there was a theory that the free game would be Sleeping Dogs. This theory was based on an image teasing what the free game would be, but it seems as though those theories were way off. It will be interesting to see if any Epic Games Store users successfully predict next week's free game or not.
While Epic Games Store users wait for next week's free game, Borderlands 3 and BioShock: The Collection should keep them plenty busy in the meantime. There should be about two to three more free mystery games for fans to look forward to, as the Epic Mega Sale doesn't wrap up until June 16.