The problems section has now been moved to the FAQ's thread HERE
You can return to the comments section for the latest game giveaway HERE
The number of games on sale via Steam varies from day to day, ranging from a few hundred to over a thousand, depending on whether they have any developer sales on or whether it's a special occasion such as Christmas, summer, Valentines day, Thanksgiving etc. You can find all of the games on sale HERE. I won't bother listing any of the games, but it should be worth visiting as there are games for all tastes. Of course you do need to install the Steam client, but IMO it is well worth it. There are lots of free games (not just free to play online games) available plus there are always games on sale. You'll often find other game distributors will sell games with a Steam key and most of the bundled games on sale usually come with a Steam key as well.
You'll find some excellent deals over on the following Game sites.
1) ... GreenManGaming usually have coupons to the value of 23% and sometimes more off pre ordered games. I've pre ordered lots of AAA games from GMG and saved up to 25% off the pre order prices you find on Steam.
2) ... Gamersgate
3) ... Good Old Games - they also sell new games
4) ... Gamestop
5) ... Origin
6) ... Direct to Drive
The Desura link was removed last year following the owner Bad JoJo going into liquidation, however, a buyer has since been found for the site and it will begin operating again soon. I think they will also be resurrecting the Indie Royale bundle which was also part of the Desura brand.
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Toomky Games
MyPlayCity
Gametop
FreeGamePick - (I've been told by Diane that FreeGamePick games tend to revert to demo's, can't qualify this tohugh as i don't download from FreeGamePick anymore.
To be honest there are too many game deals around too list them all. Just visit the sites I recommend above and I'm sure you'll find something that suits you for a very decent price. If like me you prefer Steam works games, many of the above sites also sell Steam work games.
If that's not enough, check out the Game Discussion forums HERE for details of other games either free or on deals such as the Indie Game bundles and Bundles Stars bundles (there's over 40 of them at the moment - If you purchased all of them you'd be paying around $80 for around a thousand dollars worth of games); or check out the five day sales at IndieGameStand you'll find the indie bundles thread HERE. The thread is outdated, but all of the links will still take you to the latest bundles.
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The Daily Indie Games stopped their three day sales. Instead they now have several bundles available most of the time. usually with around 6 games for less than $2. You'll find the latest bundles HERE.
Most of the bundles available retail for around $5 give or take a few dollars (apart from the Daily Indie bundles that usually cost around $1.50 + or + 10 cents for six games), but you can pay as little as a dollar for some. There are some excellent bundles out at the moment. I highly recommend the first four sites as they regularly change their bundles, at least weekly. Bundle Stars is the most prolific, usually with at least 10 bundles, but sometimes a lot more. Some bundles stay for months, others for only a few days. Fortunately Greenlight is closing down soon, so Greenlight bundles will be a thing of the past. I say fortunately because most of the games released were not very good. some good games did come out of it and it did give wannabee developers an opportunity to release their creations, but overall all it seemed to do was increase the number of games released weekly from an average of about 10 games, to sometimes over a hundred. I reckon at least 75% of the games from those bundles have been Greenlit since I purchased my first Greenlight bundle. (I've bought at least 50 bundles with only Greenlight games and they have never cost more than $3 to $4 per bundle, with savings up to 90%. The flying bundle is the only one that will inform you when a game has been Greenlit and will send you your Steam keys, the rest you have to check your accounts page to see if they have added Steam keys. Sometimes it may take several weeks after the game has been released before you get your keys, but generally its either the same day or a few days after release at the most.
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Bundle Stars
Groupees
Indie Gala
Humble Bundle
Blink Bundle
Play Injector
Get Loaded
Games Rage
Flying Bundle
Coinplay
Lazy Guys
Orlygift - giveaways and bundles
Game Bundles
IsThereAnyDeals - lists all of the games and bundles on sale.
Indie Bundles notice forum
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We have been getting free AAA and substantial arcade games from Epic Games since December 2018. From May 2019 its been on a weekly basis; sometimes we get one some times two games weekly and even three on one occasion). You'll find the latest freebie HERE
You do need a free Epic account and to play the games you do require the Epic Installer. Since they started to give these games away we have been given over 70 decent AAA and arcade games. These include:
2/8/2020 Ticket to Ride,
2/8/2020 Carcassonne,
1/31/2020 Farming Simulator 19,
1/24/2020 The Bridge,
1/17/2020 Horace,
1/9/2020 Sundered Eldritch Edition,
1/1/2020 Darksiders Warmastered Edition,
1/1/2020 Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition,
1/1/2020 Steep,
12/29/2019 The Talos Principle,
12/28/2019 Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun,
12/27/2019 Faster Than Light,
12/26/2019 Totally Accurate Battle Simulator,
12/23/2019 Ape Out,
12/23/2019 Little Inferno,
12/21/2019 SUPERHOT,
12/20/2019 Towerfall Ascension,
12/14/2019 The Escapists,
12/14/2019 The Wolf Among Us,
12/5/2019 Jotun Valhalla Edition,
12/4/2019 Rayman Legends,
11/22/2019 Bad North Jotunn Edition,
11/15/2019 The Messenger,
11/14/2019 Nuclear Throne,
11/14/2019 RUINER,
10/31/2019 Costume Quest,
10/31/2019 SOMA,
10/25/2019 Layers of Fear,
10/25/2019 Q.U.B.E. 2,
10/17/2019 >observer_ ,
10/17/2019 Alan Wake's American Nightmare,
10/10/2019 Surviving Mars - Space Race,
10/10/2019 Surviving Mars,
10/10/2019 Surviving Mars - Mysteries Resupply Pack,
10/4/2019 Minit,
9/26/2019 Everything,
9/26/2019 Metro: 2033 Redux,
9/19/2019 Batman Arkham - Trilogy,
9/15/2019 Unreal Engine,
9/13/2019 Conarium,
9/7/2019 ABZU,
9/7/2019 The End is Nigh,
8/29/2019 Inside,
8/29/2019 Celeste,
8/22/2019 Fez,
8/15/2019 Mutant Year Zero,
8/15/2019 Hyper Light Drifter,
8/9/2019 GNOG,
8/3/2019 Alan Wake,
8/3/2019 For Honor Standard Edition,
7/25/2019 Moonlighter,
7/25/2019 This War of Mine,
7/12/2019 Torchlight,
7/12/2019 The Cycle Alpha,
7/7/2019 Overcooked,
6/28/2019 Last Day of June,
6/20/2019 Rebel Galaxy,
6/14/2019 Enter the Gungeon,
6/8/2019 Kingdom New Lands,
5/31/2019 City of Brass,
5/23/2019 RiME,
5/19/2019 Stories Untold,
5/4/2019 World of Goo,
4/19/2019 Transistor,
4/5/2019 The Witness,
3/22/2019 Oxenfree General Audience,
3/7/2019 Slime Rancher,
2/22/2019 Thimbleweed Park,
2/9/2019 Axiom Verge,
1/31/2019 Jackbox Party Pack,
1/10/2019 What Remains of Edith Finch,
12/29/2018 Super Meat Boy,
12/15/2018 Subnautica
Another source of free games that appeared on the Indie Gala site early last year is the Developers showcase. This often has over 20 free games,, some of which are fully fledged games, some of beta or alpha versions or a new developers first attempt and some are extended demos
You'll find a list of all the developers showcase games HERE] and free games that change every few weeks HERE
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Developers rely on good feedback to improve their games. If you download this game please take some time once you’ve played it a while to leave some constructive feedback either positive or negative. The more constructive feedback we get, the more likely developers are going to give more games away. The giveaway site already has a very good standing with the search engines. Developers want their products out there on the WWW, this site has the potential to do that. The game giveaway project gives away on average between 9 to 17 thousand downloads for each game depending upon what genre and how obscure the game is. That’s a lot of homes these games are being downloaded into and a lot of 'potential' cash that’s being lost by the developers. If we get better games because of better feedback, the community are likely to continue to benefit from the generosity of the developers. Satisfied community members are then more likely to visit the home sites of those developers and purchase games that they may not have bothered with before they discovered the developer via the game giveaway site, thus giving the developers more incentives to give away even more decent games.
Please leave some feedback once you’ve checked the game out. It can be positive or negative, but please explain what your reasons were for the feedback you post. You could also leave suggestions for improving the game, for example, this game could do with more block types for the levels editor, add more power-ups, describing the ones you think would be suitable, add some mini games (which seem all the rage in some arcade games now) or enable the user to be able to change the in game music easily.
Thank you in advance to all those who take the time to post a constructive comment, and a big thank you to all of the developers and distributors who contribute to this site for sharing and to the game giveaway team for getting these games.
Regards
Whiterabbit aka Stephen
You can return to the first page of the game giveaway HERE
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I've frozen section this for now, simply because my book keeping is appalling (due to a brain injury I seem to have lost my ability to file things effectively) Consequently I've been unable to find the Steam keys for the games I want to give away. I actually owe some keys to various community members still, and will eventually find and distribute those.
I've posted a list of over 200 Steam games in these forums HERE some of which I will giving away each week to those community members who post decent feedback for the game given away that day. It is quite an extensive list of games taken from the 10 000+ Steam keys I've collected over the last several years; all were either purchased by me, or received free for pre-ordering games on Steam, plus a few from entering competitions and other offers). There will be a limited number of other keys available, such as Origin, uPlay and Desura keys (Desura has recently been purchased following the original owners demise and should be up and running by the end of March). I will announce the winner's from the giveaway the following week. If no announcement is made, it means no one posted feedback that qualified for a free game that week. If you have won a game, I will post details in the thread I've created specifically for that purpose HERE. Once I've given a key away, the game and any comments by the winner will be removed from the list.
Depending on the quality of the feedback, I may choose to award games to more community members for each game given away, 'at my discretion'. The feedback must be about the game, and it must include a couple of paragraphs of feedback following the guidelines I've posted in the suggestions section of my review. i.e. your opinion of the game, what you liked and/or disliked plus suggestions for improvement. If you choose a game that is very cheap I may give you a second game; so, when choosing from the list I provide, please list more than one choice. If a game is chosen by more than one community member and only one key is available the key will go to the one I deem the most useful. I do have multiple keys for quite a lot of the games I've listed, so, don't be put off if you see someone else has chosen the game you want. I haven't indicated any of the games I have multiple keys for (though for example I do have several keys for the excellent Western themed AAA game Call of Juarez, which i picked up for free for purchasing several games via the Indie Gala store several months ago. spending a few dollars got me a copy of the game, so I made several separate purchases over a couple of days while the offer was still live.
I do own at least three community members a game from the previous giveaways that I posted several months ago. I'd totally forgotten about those. I do have a document with their names on, so they will get a game from the original list when I find the document (I'm extremely disorganized); or they can peruse the new list and choose something different. Just post a comment over in the forums in the appropriate thread. If you do post feedback with a view to getting one of the games and think you have covered the requirements, you don't have to do anything until I announce the winners the following week
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You will also find lots of deals over on Green Man Gaming and Big Fish Games usually have 70% off the first game you buy from them, plus they also have other deals occasionally. Desura was purchased from Bad Ju Ju games last year by One Play. If you already have a Desura account you can read details of what is happening HERE. As yet you can't access games you previously purchased via Desura (I have around 1400), but One Play are working to recover everyone's accounts and hope to do so by the end of March 2017. Indie Royale will also resume on a weekly basis, though at this time I don't know if previous Inde Royale Greenlight bundles will be honoured?
Alawar, Gamehouse, Playrix Entertainment and Big Fish Games usually have a good selection of decent arcade games, with new additions being added frequently. Big Fish say they add a new one every day. Some of these game houses also have access to free online versions of their arcade games. Other game houses such as the AAA distributors Ubisoft, Origin and Green Man Gaming always have some games on sale
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The following is an updated list of other sites where you can find games on sale as well as links to free online games as well as other game houses plus gaming news sites such as Rock Paper Shotgun and Game Seek, and a list of popular and highly recommended free to play Massive Multiplayer games for example World of Tanks, World of Warships, Liberators and Allegiance to name a few.
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There are lots of free online arcade web sites that include Miniclip Games, Classic Arcade Games, Armor Games, Free Arcade.Com, Free Web Arcade, FOG, Kongregate, Addicting Games, Feel Good Games, AGame.com (puzzle games), Google Play, Poki, FreeGames.org, Quarked Game Zone (physics games), Shockwave, FreeGames.ws, Polygon Games and Animal Jam(playground for kids that love animals linked to Nat.Geographic).
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General news about games and new releases can be found at the following sites:
⦁ Game informer
⦁ Rock, Paper Shotgun
⦁ Gamespot
⦁ Tech Radar
⦁ PC Gamer
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For gaming hardware and hard copies of games check out Game Seek, Amazon, Tech Radar. and eBay. There are loads of other sites that you can find via Google.
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You can download hundreds of free arcade games (all these sites do have hidden extra's that can be avoided by unchecking the check-boxes during installation, but all will still open your browser when turning off a game. this is innocuous, but necessary for the free game sites survival. Every time you viost their home page through the forced visit, they earn cash, part of which goes towards paying the developers for allowing your game to be distributed basically for free.. The most popular and usually the safest include Gametop, Itch.io, Jenkay Games, FreeGamePick, and of course MyPlayCity. There's another decent one, but I've forgotten the name. will add it when I remember.
There are hundreds of free Massive Multiplayer Online games available, either via Steam HERE . Other free MMO games include Liberators, War Thunder, World of Warships, World of Tanks, Allegiance (space combat), Infantry Online, Tera (fantasy MMORPG ).
You can find a large list of Massive Multiplayer games via Steam (though many of them also have home pages where you can download and play the games without Steam HERE. Most (almost 700) of which are free (exceptions include Conan Online, Elder Scrolls Online plus others). Many of the free to play games many gamers consider pay to win becasue many also include commercial dlc packs that give you an advantage of pure free to play players. that although free to play do include dlc packs that cost money and do give you an advantage.
