Summary
- Epic Games Store offers free games regularly, with Soulstice and The Elder Scrolls Online being recent examples, providing a great opportunity for gamers to save money.
- Blazing Sails, a pirate battle royale game, is available for free on Epic Games Store, offering players the chance to customize their own ship and engage in ship-to-ship battles.
- QUBE and QUBE 2, physics-based puzzle games, are also free on Epic Games Store and are grouped together in the "QUBE Ultimate Bundle," offering a unique puzzle gameplay experience.
As it's widely known and accepted that gaming is an expensive hobby, many fans are used to searching for the greatest deals available, and the Epic Games Store and its free games promotion is a great help with that. While many players might not see its offerings as important depending on the week, some great deals come up that shouldn't be missed. Just last month, Soulstice was being offered for free, and so was The Elder Scrolls Online itself back in July.
Soulstice highlights a particular trend that happens every so often. When a game gets added to the Epic Games Store, both parties involved decide to offer it at no extra cost to Epic Games players. This trend is making its return on October 12 when the games rotate back around as not only will one fully new game for the platform be offered, but Blazing Sails, QUBE, and QUBE 2 are all being made available for free that day at 10 AM CT.
Epic Games Store Free Game Blazing Sails Explained
While plenty of gamers are well acquainted with the battle royale genre of video games at this point, the pirate battle royale game Blazing Sails may be a welcomed change of pace. Available in early access as of 2020, the game is still getting frequent updates and changes in order to keep fans interested, and players can join in the fun for free thanks to the promotion with Epic Games.
It may still be in development, but for those wishing for an adventurous life on the high seas, Blazing Sails may be the perfect game. It offers players the chance to band together as their own pirate crew, customize their own ship together, and duke it out with ship-to-ship cannon fire battles, as well as some old-fashioned swashbuckling. Blazing Sails was also offered for free on the Epic Games Store earlier this year, so even if players miss out this time, there may be another chance later on. It certainly shouldn't be missed though, as it also holds mostly positive reviews on Steam.
Epic Games Store Free Games QUBE and QUBE 2 Explained
Even though Blazing Sails may not be that exciting to those who take advantage of Epic's deals regularly, a new promotional offer may excite players. For the first time, a bundle is being offered as part of the promotion to take advantage of how QUBE 10th Anniversary and QUBE 2 Deluxe Edition are being grouped together in the "QUBE Ultimate Bundle" on the Epic Games store. Both games present a similar experience to their players, serving as a physics-based puzzle game about using gloves to interact with special colored blocks.
QUBE stands for "Quick Understanding of Block Extrusion," which serves as a great summary of what the games are about. While QUBE was praised for its unique puzzle gameplay, it was also found to be lacking the personality of other great physics-based puzzle games such as the Portal series. This is one thing that QUBE 2 particularly learned from, as it features a deeper story starring archeologist Amelia Cross and some ancient ruins.
Both games are tackling two genres that have been brought into the spotlight by some incredibly popular video games, made available at no cost for Epic Games users on what may be the calm before a very busy week for many, many players due to how packed the release schedule for October is. If players have the time, they certainly should check this deal out as the Epic Games Store making three games available for free is a rarity that likely won't come back around for a while after the week of October 12 comes and goes.