Epic Games Store Free Games List of 2023

The Epic Games Store enters its fifth year of existence in 2023, continuing to offer an advantageous revenue split that sees developers receiving more of the money users spend on their games. Aside from select exclusive titles, the storefront will also keep offering a list of free games that’s set to grow each week.

The past year’s offerings were made up of a well-rounded mix of AAA heavy hitters, smaller indie gems, and item packs for various free-to-play titles. As per tradition, the list of free games you can grab on the Epic Games Store in 2023 starts off strong, and this article keeps track of all the new additions as they become available.

If you’re looking for a list of upcoming Steam Sales, you can find that here.

Since it launched at the end of 2018, the Epic Games Store free games list has, for the most part, grown each week. The second part of December brought with it daily giveaways which could return in 2023.

To obtain these titles, you need to create an EGS account, head to the storefront’s dedicated free games section, and follow the same steps as you would when purchasing games.

Although you need to add them to your cart, the games given away each week don’t cost anything. It is, however, worth noting that you must add them to your library at any point during the week in which they’re free.

The Epic Games Store free games list of 2023 routinely gets new additions every Thursday, at 8 AM PT/4 PM GMT, although there have been some exceptions in the past.

Some games have been featured several times across the years but, if you miss out on any of them, you might want to keep track of the Epic Games Store’s many sales, when they may be available for a cheaper price.

Epic Games Store Free Games List 2023

• Dishonored – Definitive Edition
• Eximius: Seize the Frontline
• Kerbal Space Program
• Shadow Tactics – Aiko’s Choice
• Divine Knockout
• First Class Trouble
• Gamedec – Definitive Edition
• Epistory – Typing Chronicles
• Adios
• Hell Is Others
• City of Gangsters
• Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
• Recipe For Disaster
• Warpips
• Duskers
• Rise of Industry
• Call of the Sea
• Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War
• Chess Ultra
• World of Warships — Starter Pack: Ishizuchi
• Tunche
• The Silent Age
• Dying Light Enhanced Edition
• shapez
• Mordhau
• Second Extinction
• Beyond Blue
• Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)
• Breathedge
• Poker Club
• Against All Odds
• Horizon Chase Turbo
• Kao the Kangaroo
• The Sims 4 The Daring Lifestyle Bundle
• Death Stranding
• Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition
• Midnight Ghost Hunt
• Payday 2
• Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
• Guacamelee! 2
• Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms
• theHunter: Call of the Wild
• The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos
• Grime
• Train Valley 2

Dishonored: Definitive Edition

Free on the Epic Games Store: December 29, 2022 – January 5, 2023

Dishonored: Definitive Edition includes Arkane Studios’ acclaimed 2012 immersive sim alongside all of its post-launch content. Whether you help supernatural assassin Corvo Attano get revenge or follow the adventures of Daud, another skilled killer, you have a large amount of freedom to decide how to approach each mission. Will you leave a trail of blood as you sweep across Dunwall, use stealth or trickery to get past enemies, or mix the two depending on the situation you’re faced with?

Eximius: Seize the Frontline

Free on the Epic Games Store: December 29, 2022 – January 5, 2023

Eximius: Seize the Frontline pust squad-based combat front and center. Its 5v5 battles mix first-person shooter and real-time strategy elements while taking you through post-apocalyptic urban environments. Officers lead soldiers from a first-person perspective, while the Commander has access to a top-down view of the battlefield, which facilitates building their team’s base or aiding allies through various support abilities.

Kerbal Space Program

Free on the Epic Games Store: January 5 – January 12

Kerbal Space Program is a bit of a different take on a space sim. Its career mode not only lets you try your hand at constructing spacecraft, but also tasks you with overseeing strategy, funding, upgrades, and different other aspects of a space program belonging to a race of goofy aliens. Its sandbox mode then challenges your creativity, letting you focus solely on the construction side of things while unlocking all parts available in the game.

Shadow Tactics – Aiko’s Choice

Free on the Epic Games Store: January 5 – January 12

Shadow Tactics – Aiko’s Choice is the standalone expansion to Mimimi Games’ popular stealth-based strategy game. Set in Edo Japan, it follows skillful kunoichi adept Aiko as she hunts down the ghosts of her past alongside her deadly assassin friends. Each of the five playable characters has different sets of abilities and weaknesses, which you’ll have to carefully employ and watch out for as you navigate handcrafted levels.

Divine Knockout

Free on the Epic Games Store: January 12 – January 19

Divine Knockout is a 3rd-person platform fighter that pits gods and godlike figures against each other. Its fresh take on combat is inspired by 2D platform fighters, while 3v3, 2v2, and 1v1 modes ensure that both solo and team-oriented players have something to look forward to.

First Class Trouble

Free on the Epic Games Store: January 12 – January 19

First Class Trouble is a social deduction game in which, depending on the role you play, you must either help teammates shut down a dangerous AI or stop them from doing so. Your team is split into human Residents and killer robots called Personoids. Where the former must work together to identify the Personoids among them before shutting down the AI known as CAIN, the latter must disrupt the humans and deceive them, in hopes of unleashing the AI’s full potential.

Gamedec – Definitive Edition

Free on the Epic Games Store: January 12 – January 19

Cyberpunk isometric RPG Gamedec – Definitive Edition puts you in the shoes of a detective who solves crimes inside virtual worlds. Rather than use your fists, you instead gather information from witnesses and suspects as you attempt to get to the bottom of each case. In the process, you get to discover what life is life in 22nd-century Warsaw City, each decision you make informing who your character really is.

Epistory – Typing Chronicles

Free on the Epic Games Store: January 19 – January 26

Epistory – Typing Chronicles is an atmospheric adventure typing game centered on a struggling writer who turns to asking her muse for help with writing her book. Players take on the role of this very muse, every action – from solving mysterious puzzles to unlocking magic powers and defeating enemies – being controlled using the keyboard, with typing playing a major role in how you interact with the game’s world.

Adios

Free on the Epic Games Store: January 26 – February 2

Adios is the final Epic Games Store free game of January 2023 and a bit of a different beast at that. In it, you’re a pig farmer who decides he’s no longer willing to let the mafia use his pigs as a means for body disposal. When your old friend – who’s also a hitman – drops by with the next delivery, you tell him your decision. The rest of this cinematic first-person game focuses on spending the day and discussing with the man who may end up having to kill you before it’s over.

Hell Is Others

Free on the Epic Games Store: January 26 – February 2

Hell Is Others gives PvPvE extraction shooters the top-down treatment while adding a bit of horror to top things off. Your apartment acts as a safe haven that you can decorate or use to literally grow ammo through blood-thirsty plants, while the world outside hosts all manners of hostile creatures, some more monstrous than others, that you have to eliminate.

City of Gangsters

Free on the Epic Games Store: February 2 – February 9

As its name suggests, management sim City of Gangsters sends you back to 1920 and puts you in charge of building a criminal operation from scratch. You’ll build speakeasies and illegal distilleries, manage production chains, track down debtors and make sure they pay, but also smuggle goods, and get a strong, reliable crew together. You won’t be the only one looking to make lots of money but, as they say, dead men tell no tales and they’re not very good at making profits either.

Dishonored: Death of the Outsider

Free on the Epic Games Store: February 2 – February 9

Dishonored: Death of the Outsider is the final entry in Arkane Studio’s popular saga, following supernatural assassin Billie Lurk as she sets out to kill the Outsider himself. Aside from wrapping up the story, the title features the same flexible sandbox gameplay that lets you choose how to approach each of the new missions it introduces. You’ll need to pair Billie’s gadgets and supernatural abilities with patience and careful observation as you sow a path of more or less silent destruction through Karnaca.

Recipe For Disaster

Free on the Epic Games Store: February 9 – February 16

Recipe For Disaster is a management sim in which you get to design your own restaurant, hire and manage staff, customize food menus, and experiment with ingredients to give customers more reasons to return. The game’s scenarios task you with turning failing restaurants into profitable businesses, while freeplay mode taps into your creativity thanks to its fewer restrictions.

Warpips

Free on the Epic Games Store: February 16 – February 23

Warpips is a tug-of-war strategy game that streamlines the genre’s combat, having you focus on the bigger picture rather than carefully micromanaging each unit. You get to guide infantry, vehicles, airplanes, and helicopters tha synergize with each other into randomly generated battles out of which you hopefully emerge victorious.

Duskers

Free on the Epic Games Store: February 23 – March 2

In Duskers, you are a drone operator who relies on his robotic pals to maintain a connection with the outside world and figure out what caused the universe to become a giant graveyard. You issue orders through a command line interface, hear only what comes through your drones’ microphones, see what they see, and rely on motion sensors to tell you when something else is moving around you. The game’s universe is procedurally generated and each death means losing everything.

Rise of Industry

Free on the Epic Games Store: March 2 – March 9

Rise of Industry gives you the opportunity of creating your very own industrial empire. From building factories to ensuring the efficiency of your production lines and trade with developed cities, your decisions determine your empire’s direction, how well you handle the competition, as well as how happy (or unhappy) the towns you’re located in are about you being there.

Call of the Sea

Free on the Epic Games Store: March 9 – March 16

Set in the 1930s South Pacific, Call of the Sea is a narrative-driven adventure game that follows protagonist Norah, as she seeks to uncover truth about her husband’s disappearance. The title blends emotional storytelling with exploration and puzzle solving.

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War

Free on the Epic Games Store: March 16 – March 23

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War is a 4X strategy game set in Games Workshop’s grimdark universe. Playing as either the Astra Militarum, Space Marines, Orks, or Necrons you’re tasked with building cities, raising armies, and expanding your empire as you explore each faction’s unique playstyle, tech tree, and story.

Chess Ultra

Free on the Epic Games Store: March 23 – March 30

Chess Ultra celebrates the popular mind sport with an array of features ranging from traditional multiplayer to 10 Grandmaster-approved AI levels, 80 puzzles and in-depth tutorials, while also including 4K and VR support.

World of Warships — Starter Pack: Ishizuchi

Free on the Epic Games Store: March 23 – March 30

World of Warships — Starter Pack: Ishizuchi helps you bolster your item collection in the free-to-play game with the Ishizuchi Japanese Tier IV battleship, one port slot, 11 epic camouflages, 11 common expendable economic bonuses split between different types (Credits +20%, Ship XP +100%, Commander XP +100%, and Free XP +300%), alongside 5 award containers.

Tunche

Free on the Epic Games Store: March 30 – April 6

Tunche is a hand-drawn beat ’em up that incorporates roguelike elements, sending players across four worlds set in the Amazonian forests. Picking one of five playable characters, you face a variety of evil beasts either on your own or alongside friends.

The Silent Age

Free on the Epic Games Store: March 30 – April 6

The Silent Age puts you in the role of Joe, a janitor who, thanks to a time-traveling device, can hop between 1972 and the post-apocalyptic future of 2012, attempting to uncover the reason behind mankind’s extinction and ultimately stop it. The title mixes a minimalist art style with challenging puzzles and a deep story.

Dying Light Enhanced Edition

Free on the Epic Games Store: April 6 – April 13

Dying Light Enhanced Edition is the perfect way to experience the first chapter in Techland’s zombie-slaying saga, bundling together the base game, its Season Pass, The Following expansion, alongside a few other goodies that should keep you busy for tens of hours. Its mix of first-person action and parkour elements allow for dynamic combat and traversal, while nightfall brings out the horror, as the infected become even more ruthless.

shapez

Free on the Epic Games Store: April 6 – April 13

shapez is all about “building factories to automate the creation and processing of increasingly complex shapes.” Set on an infinitely expanding map, you’re eventually also tasked with coloring the shapes, as the process becomes more involved.

Mordhau

Free on the Epic Games Store: April 13 – April 20

Mordhau is a first & third person multiplayer slasher that pits up to 80 players against each other, with a focus on melee combat. A rich arsenal of weaponry and customization options let you make your warrior your own, while its combat system has quite a bit of depth, allowing you to attack from multiple angles, block, parry, and more.

Second Extinction

Free on the Epic Games Store: April 13 – April 20

Second Extinction is a co-op FPS in which you face off against hordes of dinosaurs both big and small. Its expansive map is split into regions that have different threat levels attached to them, letting you pick your engagements as you master several playable heroes and a whole arsenal of deadly weaponry.

Beyond Blue

Free on the Epic Games Store: April 20 – April 27

Beyond Blue is a single-player narrative adventure in which you discover the ocean through the eyes of Mirai, a deep-sea explorer and scientist. Across eight dives, you encounter and track different sea creatures while unlocking mini-documentaries that feature leading ocean experts.

Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)

Free on the Epic Games Store: April 20 – April 27

Atmospheric puzzle platformerNever Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) tells a traditional story that the Iñupiat, an Alaska Native people, have shared across generations. Whether on your own or alongside a friend, you guide Nuna and Fox across the harsh Arctic environment, solving different puzzles and evading various dangers. As you progress, you unlock video insights that teach you more about the Iñupiat people and their culture.

Breathedge

Free on the Epic Games Store: April 27 – May 4

Breathedge tasks you with surviving in space alongside your immortal chicken, while uncovering the truth behind the crash of a massive space hearse. As you navigate between debris-filled areas, you need to craft items that both keep you alive and help you progress, all while facing new obstacles and dangers.

Poker Club

Free on the Epic Games Store: April 27 – May 4

In Poker Club, you get to experience the life of a poker pro. You can participate in more than 10 Texas Hold’em tournaments, which include freezeouts, shootouts, super-turbos, and more, alongside a variety of other options across both single and multiplayer modes.

Against All Odds

Free on the Epic Games Store: May 4 – May 11

Side-scrolling multiplayer title Against All Odds pits you against seven other players in a variety of races that put your skills to the test. Aside from participating in several modes that emphasize both playing solo and as a team, you can also use its flexible stage editor to build your own levels.

Horizon Chase Turbo

Free on the Epic Games Store: May 4 – May 11

Horizon Chase Turbo is an arcade racing game inspired by titles such as Out Run and Lotus Turbo Challenge. Straightforward and with a minimalistic graphics style, it features 33 cars that you can race across 111 tracks. Better yet, you can do so either on your own or alongside up to 3 other pals in split-screen multiplayer.

Kao the Kangaroo

Free on the Epic Games Store: May 4 – May 11

Kao the Kangaroo looks back at the golden age of 3D platformers for inspiration, seeing its protagonist set off on a quest to uncover the truth about his father’s disappearance. You get to jump, punch, and solve puzzles as you explore colorful, detailed environments. Your pair of elementally-infused boxing gloves then gives you a fighting chance against the different foes and bosses that stand in your way.

The Sims 4 The Daring Lifestyle Bundle

Free on the Epic Games Store: May 11 – May 18

The Sims 4 The Daring Lifestyle Bundle includes the Jungle Adventure Game Pack, Luxury Party Stuff Pack, and Fashion Street Kit, taking your sims on new adventures in the wilderness, letting them host luxurious parties, and making their clothing’s color palette more vibrant.

Death Stranding

Free on the Epic Games Store: May 18 – May 25

Death Stranding returns as a free Epic Games Store title, giving players who missed it in the past another chance to pick it up. It follows protagonist Sam Bridges on his journey to reconnect a shattered world. The title oozes originality and lots of that trademark Hideo Kojima madness, managing to make the work of a (special kind of) delivery man surprisingly engaging.

Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition

Free on the Epic Games Store: May 25 – June 1

Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition includes all the game’s DLC. As you navigate through the scorching Mojave Wasteland, the imposing Hoover Dam, and the glowing Vegas Strip, you’ll encounter an eclectic mix of characters, ambitious factions, unique weapons, mutated beings, and much more. Decide your loyalties in the impending war, or declare “winner takes all” and proclaim yourself the King of New Vegas in this sequel to Fallout 3.

Midnight Ghost Hunt

Free on the Epic Games Store: June 1 – June 8

Midnight Ghost Hunt is the next freebie on the Epic Games Store. Lurking in a myriad of accursed locales, persistent apparitions haunt the corridors. Tasked with their eradication, the Ghost Hunters are fully equipped with ghost-busting technology designed to banish these entities to another realm. Engage in a thrilling 4v4 standoff between the living and the dead, where you can assume the roles of both the Ghost and the Hunter.

Payday 2

Free on the Epic Games Store: June 8 – June 15

Payday 2 is a 4-player co-op shooter in which you take the role of a masked criminal looking to sow chaos and get paid. From convenience stores to banks, you pick your location, mask, and skills, while fending off law enforcement when it inevitably tries to take you down.

Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition

Free on the Epic Games Store: June 8 – June 15

Metroidvania action-platforming meets lucha libre in Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition, as you follow agave farmer Juan Aguacate on his journey to becoming the masked hero he’s always dreamed of being. You’ll platform and fight your way across dimensions alone or alongside up to three other players while unlocking a variety of new skills and chatting with the ocasional goat.

Guacamelee! 2

Free on the Epic Games Store: June 8 – June 15

Guacamelee! 2 takes former agave farmer Juan Aguacate out of retirement as he sets off to save the world once more. New moves make you an even more ruthless luchador than before, while new powers – such as the infinitely badass chicken form – help you deal with any baddies or inanimate obstacles that might be blocking your way.

Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms

Free on the Epic Games Store: June 22 – June 29

Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms is a strategy management game in which you collect characters from the vast Dungeons & Dragons universe and have them adventure across the Sword Coast. Anyone logging in through the Epic Games Store during the week receives the Wulfgar’s Legends of Renown Pack.

theHunter: Call of the Wild

Free on the Epic Games Store: June 22 – June 29

theHunter: Call of the Wild is a hunting game that sets you loose in an atmospheric open world filled with true-to-life animals. On your own or alongside other, you’ll need to carefully measure your prey, analyze its behavior, decide the equipment that best suits your needs, and line up the perfect shot.

The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos

Free on the Epic Games Store: June 29 – July 6

The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos is a tactical RPG set in the universe created by French author John Lang. In it, you control a party of seven less-than-ideal heroes through both main and side quests that see you exploring different areas of the titular dungeon. As you venture through the tavern, goblin ice skating park, and luxury quarters, you’ll put the heroes’ distinct skills and equipment to the test in turn-based battles. If you’re after a more relaxed experience, the adaptive difficult system has got your back.

Grime

Free on the Epic Games Store: July 6 – July 13

Surreal visuals, living weapons that mutate form during combat, and a hefty amount of challenge meet in Grime, an action-adventure RPG that tasks you with fighting your way through the terrors of an alien world. As you progress you obtain new abilities, which come in handy when facing new enemies and deadly bosses. Defeat the latter and you add game-changing abilities to your arsenal.

Train Valley 2

Free on the Epic Games Store: July 13 – July 20

Train Valley 2 blends micromanagement, tycoon, and puzzle game elements, tasking you to solve increasing complex logistics and transportation problems. Cozy low-poly graphics don’t immediately betray the challenge it can throw your way, while the level editor ensures that it’ll be some time before you run out of levels to tackle.

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