Free to grab: Surviving Mars at Epic Games Store

#5719420

Irenicus

2019-10-11 11:36

Hilbert Hagedoorn:

Epic Games Store has put on offer Surviving Mars to claim for free this week, taking the place of Minit. Surviving Mars, developed by Haemimont Games and published by Paradox, is a city-building simul... Free to grab: Surviving Mars at Epic Games Store

Thanks for the heads up Hilbert. Free is always good in my book

#5719448

Locoyote

2019-10-11 13:20

Great. I'm really looking forward to getting Observer for free next week. Was in my Steam wish list for ages, lol.

#5719455

SpajdrEX

2019-10-11 13:48

Make sure to take the other two addons for Surviving Mars, one is permanently free but second only for a limited time.

#5719503

ManuKey

2019-10-11 15:43

EGS spyware ? Not even for free !!

#5719514

vbetts

Moderator

2019-10-11 16:03

ManuKey:

EGS spyware ? Not even for free !!

Oh boyo, let's not make comments about EGS like this please and thanks.

#5719533

PsyaNyde

2019-10-11 16:57

Haha, if I could even get their dodgy Epic Launcher to install in the first place, instead of failing and rolling back during the directX part of the install, I may have bothered claiming it, as things stand, i'll not bother.

#5719537

D3M1G0D

2019-10-11 17:00

So many free games. At this rate, my Epic games library will soon rival my Steam library (which I guess is the point).

#5719547

insp1re2600

2019-10-11 17:33

thanks =]

#5719560

Fox2232

2019-10-11 18:14

vbetts:

Oh boyo, let's not make comments about EGS like this please and thanks.

Not sure what EGS is, but when its UI is active, it eats ~40% of my CPU. When I was clicking this "order", it was using it 100%. I was checking it in task manager as I have temperature shown on MB and fans started to spin fast. Closing its window => 0%. Starting it again 40%. I am adding their nice free games. But outside of adding them, I am not currently using their launcher and do not play those games.

#5719566

vbetts

Moderator

2019-10-11 18:23

Fox2232:

Not sure what EGS is, but when its UI is active, it eats ~40% of my CPU. When I was clicking this "order", it was using it 100%. I was checking it in task manager as I have temperature shown on MB and fans started to spin fast. Closing its window => 0%. Starting it again 40%. I am adding their nice free games. But outside of adding them, I am not currently using their launcher and do not play those games.

I'm pretty sure EGS is Chromium based as most are now. So what I should say is this, please don't make this EGS bad launcher, Epic bad reeeeee

#5719639

The Laughing Ma

2019-10-11 21:48

Thanks for the heads up HH. Saw this back on Steam around... oh a year or so ago, thought about it but reading the reviews seemed to suggest it was a bit buggy and in need of some patching but you know what free is all kinds of the right price so I am getting this.

#5719686

tsunami231

2019-10-12 00:48

hmm simcity only on mars?? that could be interesting

#5719687

blurp33

2019-10-12 01:16

Don't forget to pick up some DLCs too on the lower part of the page.

#5719691

tsunami231

2019-10-12 01:22

yah got those too

#5719853

Venix

2019-10-12 19:23

When this one got released i was interested not sure if i would like it ....so i had it on wish list for when it goes on a crazy sale 10 bucks or something , not in a rush for it....well i i think for free is just the right time to try it!

#5719875

Margalus

2019-10-12 21:37

Fox2232:

Not sure what EGS is, but when its UI is active, it eats ~40% of my CPU. When I was clicking this "order", it was using it 100%. I was checking it in task manager as I have temperature shown on MB and fans started to spin fast. Closing its window => 0%. Starting it again 40%. I am adding their nice free games. But outside of adding them, I am not currently using their launcher and do not play those games.

You had me scared with this. I use Uplay, Origin, Battlenet and Steam. I have never used Epic game launcher. But I've been wanting this game so I bit the bullet. I don't know what the problem is that you are having, but luckily I don't experience that. The Epic launcher is sitting there at 0% cpu usage. With Steam, Battlenet and Epic launcher running and several tabs in Chrome open and file explorer open I am sitting at 5-6% cpu usage right now. Most of that is file explorer and chrome it seems.

#5719881

Loobyluggs

2019-10-12 22:18

played it for five minutes. Not for me, uninstalled.

#5719896

Neo Cyrus

2019-10-12 22:55

Thanks for always pointing these out Hilbert, I often forget to grab the weekly free game.

#5720177

tsunami231

2019-10-14 02:55

Loobyluggs:

played it for five minutes. Not for me, uninstalled.

I came same conclusion sadly, I did love simcity stuff back on the day, but I also think back in then simcity was sprites game and I think that was why i loved it so much. some types of games just dont belong in 3D. atlest to me it kind ruins the feel of certain types games but hey the game made me install Epics launcher for first time, then again install on my uncles pc and my personal pc, epic launcher still not touched my pc.

Margalus:

You had me scared with this. I use Uplay, Origin, Battlenet and Steam. I have never used Epic game launcher. But I've been wanting this game so I bit the bullet. I don't know what the problem is that you are having, but luckily I don't experience that. The Epic launcher is sitting there at 0% cpu usage. With Steam, Battlenet and Epic launcher running and several tabs in Chrome open and file explorer open I am sitting at 5-6% cpu usage right now. Most of that is file explorer and chrome it seems.

could be AMD thing I didnt noticed any such thing we both have Nvidia he has AMD could be Epic thing too who knows.