Free Games on Epic Games Store: Next Up Hero and Tacoma

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/24/2020 07:45 AM | source: | 11 comment(s)

Epic Games is giving away FREE copies of two games; Next Up Hero and Tacoma starting today and lasting until Thursday, July 30th 2020.

The first available free game this week is Next Up Hero

Next Up Hero is a dungeon crawler featuring hand-drawn heroes that hack, slash, bongo-drum, boomerang, and jet their way through Ventures. Choose your Hero and start rolling dungeons, gearing out, and maxing your stats. Next Up Hero has 6.5 user score at MetaCritic, it usually costs $19.99 but will be available for free at Epic Games Store until July 30th 2020.

Get it for free at this link.

The second available free game this week is Tacoma

Six crew members lived and worked on space station Tacoma, forming relationships, experiencing love and loss, and facing crisis together. Discover not just what happened to these people, but what makes them who they are, through your role as an interactive investigator. The story is told through a series of fully voiced and animated interactive AR scenes, immersing you in the events on Tacoma. Tacoma has 79 score at OpenCritic, it usually costs $19.99 but will be available for free at Epic Games Store until July 30th 2020.

Get it for free at this link.

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MonstroMart
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#5812478 Posted on: 07/26/2020 08:59 PM

Epic is simply giving back to the community with all the money they make.

Meanwhile Valve continues to swim in money and does nothing with it.

And you really think this is a viable business model long term? Mind blown.

mikeysg
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#5812555 Posted on: 07/27/2020 05:34 AM

I do support EGS with a number of purchases - World War Z, The Sinking City, Metro Exodus + 2 expansions, etc - and a good number of their freebies as well. Appreciate their effort with their freebies, hence my willingness to buy from them whenever I see a game that I want that they have in their store.

I find myself not browsing Steam for games anymore, unless they have a game that I'm looking forward to that EGS doesn't have. IF both digital distributors have the game I want, and prices are similar, it's a given my support or purchase would go to EGS.

lmimmfn
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#5812574 Posted on: 07/27/2020 07:32 AM

I just collect games on EGS. The launcher doesnt work on my PC without messing with it to prevent dx9 install. Works for a few days until next update. Just not worth it.

TheDeeGee
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#5812575 Posted on: 07/27/2020 07:35 AM

I just collect games on EGS. The launcher doesnt work on my PC without messing with it to prevent dx9 install. Works for a few days until next update. Just not worth it.

Sounds like a messed up windows install.

Been using the Epic Games Launcher since 2016 without issues.

The Goose
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#5812592 Posted on: 07/27/2020 09:17 AM

I added Tacoma to my selection of free games and while ive only played for 10 minutes it feels like Observation which i really enjoyed, although Tacoma might be slower paced it looks amazing @4k like Observation does and im looking forward to playing it in the next couple of weeks when i have the time to lose my self in the games atmosphere.

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