On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 22:53:25 +0100, Kyonshi <
gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/3/2025 4:56 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
<maniacal laughter>
is it just me or were there more games last year?
Wait! I can answer that! And the answer is: probably not.
At least if we go by the announcements of free games here in CSIPGA (I
can only speak of the free games I hear about, after all). But in
fact, we actually got LESS games this year than last.
2023 score: Epic - 90, GOG - 45, Steam - 35, Others - 17
2024 score: Epic - 86, GOG - 20, Steam - 41, Others - 1
These do not include any 'freebies' offered via Amazon or any other
subscription service like HumbleChoice, Microsoft, etc. since you
still have to pay. They /do/ include all those games where you have to
sign up for an account (e.g., Fanatical) before they tell you how to
claim the game on Steam or elsewhere.
*
However, Amazon pushed very hard with its partners and if you include
those, you could get another 32 games from Epic, another 62 games from
GOG, as well as the 52 free games from Amazon itself. So if you're a
bit loose with your definition of 'free' the numbers are higher in
2024 than in 2023.
(And let's not forget the 144 games from HumbleChoice. Not free, but
they fall into the so-cheap-they're-almost-free range.)
Not to mention the close to 100 games keys offered by friendly
neighborhood CSIPGA posters to whomever could claim the keys fastest.
*
But regardless of whether or not there were numerically more games, it
still was a bonanza harvest for followers of The Number. Video game
libraries are swollen world-wide thanks to the excess of games.
*
Here's a list of games offered for free and announced in CSIPGA during
2024 (what can I say: I like lists). Note that some of these games
were repeats of games offered free in previous years (and, in one
case, offered earlier the same year!) so while they were FREE, they
weren't always NEW.
EPIC (86 Games)
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[Redacted] * 20 Minutes Till Dawn * A Plague Tail: Innocence * Arcade
Paradise * Astrea Six Sided Oracles * Astro Duel 2 * Atom Eve * Atom
Eve * Bear and Breakfast * Beholder * Big Con * Brotato * Call of the
Wild: Angler * Callisto Protocol * Castlevania Anniversary Collection
* Cat Quest 2 * Chivalry 2 * Circus Electrique * Control * Cygni *
Dakar Desert Rally * Darawful 2 * Dark and Darker * Deaths Gambit:
Afterlife * Deceive Inc * Deus Ex Mankind Divided * DNF Duel * Doki
Doki Literature Club * Doors Paradox * Dragon Age: Inquisition *
Dredge * Empyrion * Escape Academy * Fallout Classic Collection *
Farming Simulator 22 * Firestone * FIST: Forged In Shadow Tech *
Floppy Knights * Football Manager 2024 * Freshly Frosted * Ghostrunner
* Ghostrunner 2 * Ghostwire Tokyo * Gigabash * Gigantic * Hot Wheels
Unleashed * Industria * Infinifactory * Islets * Kardboard Kings *
Kill Knight * Last Stand: Aftermath * Lisa: Definitive Edition * Lost
Castle * LumBearJack * Maid of Sker * Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy *
Marvel Midnight Suns * Moving Out * Orcs Must Die 3 (x2) * Outer
Worlds * Outliver * Predecessor * Redout 2 * Return to Moria * Rugrats
* Rumble Club * Sail Forth * Sifu * Snakebird * Sniper Ghost Warrior
Contracts * Spirit of the Mouse * Sunless Skies Sovereign Edition *
Super Crazy Rhythm Castle * Super Meat Boy Forever * TerraTech * The
Bridge * The Falconer * Thief 4 * Toem * Town of Salem II * Vampire
Survivors * Wild Card Football * Witch It * Wizard of Legend
GOG (20 Games)
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Bioshock Remastered * Book of Demons * Chicken Assassin * Dark Eye:
Chains of Satinav * Diggles * First Templar SE * FlatOut * Hammerting
* Hellpoint * Inside the Beast * Intravenous * Oaken * Once Upon A
Jester * Return of the Phantom * Shadows Awakening * Thronebreaker:
Witcher Tales * Tropico 4 * Vambrace: Cold Soul * Whispered World *
Whispering Willows
STEAM (41 Games)
-----------------------------------
100 Korea Cats * 100% Orange Juice * Aerial Knights Never Yield * All
Walls Must Fall * Astronarch * Aviators * Blackwake * Breathedge *
Castle Break * Dark Sector * Dead Island Riptide DE * Disfigure *
Distant Space * Distant Space 2 * Driftland * Endless Legend * Free
Stars: The Urquan Masters * Holocure Save the Fans * Intravenous *
Islands of Insight * Machinika Museum * Marathon 2 * Marathon Infinity
* Minimalism * Nightmare Files * Nightmare Kart * Nobles Life:
Kingdom Reborn Prologue * Nothing * Pankapu * Rawmen: Food Fighter
Arena * RIOT: Civil Unrest * RPG Maker XP * Scourgebringer * Space
Crew: Legendary Edition * Spirit of the North * Tell Me Why * Ultimate
Zombie Defence * Unloved * Unplagued * Weapon of Choice DX * WH40K:
Gladius Relics of War
OTHERS (1 Game)
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Small Radios, Big Televisions
FREE GAME: none! None! NONE!!1!!
Re: FREE GAME: none! None! NONE!!1!!
