Summary
- The Evil Within will be available for free on the Epic Games Store from October 19 to October 26, just in time for Halloween.
- The Evil Within is a pure horror game with mind-bending, supernatural elements.
- Epic Games Store users can currently claim Blazing Sails and QUBE Ultimate Bundle before they are replaced by Eternal Threads and The Evil Within.
The Epic Games Store has revealed Eternal Threads and The Evil Within as its free games for October 19. The Epic Games Store gives away free games every Thursday at 10:00am CT. Users have a week to claim the games for their libraries, at which point they are theirs to keep forever.
The current Epic Games Store free games are Blazing Sails and QUBE Ultimate Bundle, both of which will be available until Thursday, October 19 at 10:00am CT. Blazing Sails is a PvP pirate game that has enjoyed a mostly positive reception on Steam. QUBE Ultimate Bundle, meanwhile, is a collection of first-person puzzle games that brings the original QUBE, QUBE: Director's Cut, and QUBE 2: Deluxe Edition together in a single package. The QUBE games have earned mixed reviews, but fans of the genre may still want to jump at this opportunity to get multiple entries in the series completely free of charge.
Epic Games Store is Technically Giving Away 3 Free Games on October 12
Alongside releasing its new free game for the week, Epic Games Store users will technically be able to claim three free games come next week.
Blazing Sails and QUBE Ultimate Bundle will be replaced by Eternal Threads and The Evil Within, which will be free from October 19 to October 26. Eternal Threads is a sci-fi mystery game that first released in 2022 to mixed reviews. The Evil Within, meanwhile, is the first title ever released by Tango Gameworks. Directed by the legendary Shinji Mikami, The Evil Within is often pointed to as one of the better new survival-horror games of the past decade.
Epic Games Store Free Games October 2023
- Blazing Sails (October 12 - October 19)
- QUBE Ultimate Bundle (October 12 - October 19)
- Eternal Threads (October 19 - October 26)
- The Evil Within (October 19 - October 26)
The Evil Within being part of the Epic Games Store free games lineup makes perfect sense for October 2023. After all, The Evil Within will be given away to Epic Games Store users just in time for Halloween, ensuring that they have a scary game to play for the holiday. For those unfamiliar with The Evil Within, the game plays similarly to Resident Evil 4, but with an emphasis on mind-bending, supernatural elements. It's much more of a pure horror game than it is an action game, which should appeal to fans of the genre.
The next batch of Epic Games Store free games could very well include more horror games to keep with the Halloween spirit, but that remains to be seen. For now, Epic Games Store users can add Blazing Sails and QUBE Ultimate Bundle to their digital libraries while they wait for Eternal Threads and The Evil Within to be made free next week.