What games are free this week on the Epic Games Store? As the Epic Games Store enters its seventh year in 2025, it continues to provide a favorable revenue model where developers earn a larger portion of the proceeds from their games. In addition to hosting exclusive titles, the storefront maintains its tradition of offering a growing list of free games each week.
Last year’s selection on the Epic Games Store featured a diverse array of games, including major AAA titles, unique indie games, and item packs for several free-to-play games. Highlights included Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, A Plague Tale: Innocence, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition, Thief, Dragon Age Inquisition – Game of the Year Edition, Chivalry 2, The Callisto Protocol, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, and The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria.
Continuing with this tradition, the lineup of free games available on the Epic Games Store in 2025 starts with a strong showing in Kingdom Come Deliverance. This article provides regular updates on all the new upcoming Free Games as they are released.
Free Games this week on Epic Games Store
Since its debut at the end of 2018, the Epic Games Store’s free games list has generally expanded weekly. Notably, in the latter part of December, there were daily giveaways, a trend that will likely return in 2025.
To access these free titles, set up an EGS account, navigate to the storefront’s section dedicated to free games, and proceed as if making a regular purchase.
You must add the games to your cart, but they are free. However, to claim them, you must add them to your library during their free period, usually a week.
The Epic Games Store’s free games roster for 2025 is updated every Thursday at 8 AM PT/ 4 PM GMT, though this schedule has occasionally been interrupted.
Over the years, some games have appeared multiple times on the list. If you happen to miss any, it’s a good idea to keep an eye on the Epic Games Store’s various sales, where they might be available at a discounted price.
Epic Games Store Free Games List for 2025
- Kingdom Come Deliverance
- Hell Let Loose
- Turmoil
- Escape Academy
- Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
- Undying
- Beyond Blue
- HUMANKIND
- F1 Manager 2024
- Garden Story
- World War Z: Aftermath
- Mages of Mystralia
- Them’s Fightin’ Herds
- Mortal Shell
- Jurassic World Evolution 2
- Mystery Games X 2
Kingdom Come Deliverance
Free on the Epic Games Store: 1 January
You’re Henry, the son of a blacksmith. Thrust into a raging civil war, you watch helplessly as invaders storm your village and slaughter your friends and family. Narrowly escaping the brutal attack, you grab your sword to fight back. Avenge the death of your parents and help repel the invading forces in Kingdom Come Deliverance. Perfect, this helps to get everyone ready for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, which is releasing in February 2025.
Hell Let Loose
Free on the Epic Games Store: 2nd - 9th January
Join the chaos of war and be a part of the most iconic battles of the Eastern and Western Fronts, including Carentan, Omaha Beach, Stalingrad, Kursk, and more. Hell Let Loose drops you into the action, where you will have to fight across fields, bridges, forests, towns, and more war-torn environments. Lumbering tanks will dominate the battlefield, and crucial supply chains will fuel the frontlines; you are essential to the colossal, combined arms warfare.
Turmoil
Free on the Epic Games Store: 9th - 16th January
Turmoil offers players a tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th-century oil rush in North America. Get a taste of the rush and rivalry of the time as you earn your way to becoming a successful oil entrepreneur. The town will grow with you as you make money digging up and selling oil.
Lease land at the town auction and search for oil. Build a rig, create an efficient pipe network, and bring up the oil to store it in silos. Sell the oil at the best times to maximize profits. Then, buy essential upgrades in town to cope with rock, gas, and ice. Acquire more town shares than your competitors to become the new mayor.
Escape Academy
Free on the Epic Games Store: 16th - 23rd January
You’ve just arrived at Escape Academy, where promising students train to become the ultimate Escapist. Play over a dozen hand-crafted rooms designed by experienced experts in the field of escape rooms. Experience the entirety of Escape Academy alone in single-player OR through two-player co-operative play. Available in local or online split-screen. Escape Academy was also free on the Epic Games Store in 2024.
Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
Free on the Epic Games Store: 23rd - 30th January
Behind the Frame is a vivid, interactive fiction about an aspiring artist on the cusp of finishing the final piece of her gallery submission. A relaxing, eloquent experience that can be played at any pace. Become immersed in a panoramic world filled with resplendent colors, beautiful hand-animated visuals, and a smooth, easy-listening soundtrack. As a passionate artist, seek the missing colors that will bring your paintings to life - all while remembering to take the occasional coffee and breakfast breaks that keep you going. There is more than what meets the eye, for every painting has a story to tell.
Undying
Free on the Epic Games Store: 30th January - 6th February
Caught amid the zombie apocalypse and with time running out, Anling will stop at nothing to ensure her son, Cody, gets to safety in Undying. Enduring countless perils, including the zombie infection that’s beginning to take over her body, not to mention teaching Cody how to survive their harsh new reality.
As Anling and Cody explore the world, they encounter an ensemble of characters who present unique challenges. How they handle each one determines their fate. Some may die, some may live, and some may become staunch allies or even archnemeses. Will humanity truly prevail?
Beyond Blue
Free on the Epic Games Store: 6th February - 13th February
Beyond Blue is a single-player narrative adventure that takes you deep into our planet’s beating blue heart. Set in the near future, Beyond Blue explores the mysteries of our ocean through the eyes of Mirai, a deep-sea explorer and scientist. Become a part of a newly-formed research team using groundbreaking technologies to see, hear, and interact with the ocean in a more meaningful way than has ever been attempted.
Humankind
Free on the Epic Games Store: 6th February - 13th February
Humankind is a historical strategy game where you’ll be re-writing the entire narrative of human history and combining cultures to create a civilization that’s as unique as you are.Combine up to 60 historical cultures as you lead your people from the Ancient to the Modern Age. From humble origins as a Neolithic tribe, transition to the Ancient Era as the Babylonians, become the Classical era Mayans, the Medieval Umayyads, the Early Modern era British, and so on. Each culture will add its own special gameplay layer, leading to near-endless outcomes.
F1 Manager 2024
Free on the Epic Games Store: 13th February - 20th February
For the first time in the F1 series, create your own team to challenge the grid and forge a new legacy. Customise every element of your team from your origin and livery design to logo and racing suits. Recruit the right staff and drivers and negotiate with sponsors for placement on your car.
Garden Story
Free on the Epic Games Store: 20th February - 27th February
Traverse the four seasons in this wholesome world inhabited by quirky fruits and vegetables! As the newest guardian of the Grove, it is your duty to rebuild the village and uncover the story of its hidden past. Complete daily requests to defend, restore, and improve the town. As you progress, you’ll unlock memories that allow Concord to harness the power of their predecessors.
World War Z: Aftermath
Free on the Epic Games Store: 20th February - 27th February
World War Z: Aftermath is the ultimate co-op zombie shooter based on Paramount Pictures’ blockbuster film, and the next evolution of the original hit World War Z that has now captivated over 20 million players. Turn the tide of the zombie apocalypse across consoles and PC with full cross-play. Join up to three friends or play on your own with AI teammates against hordes of ravenous zombies in intense story episodes across new zombie-ravaged locations around the world: Rome, Vatican City and Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula.
Mages of Mystralia
Free on the Epic Games Store: 27th February - 6th March
In Mages of Mystralia, you play as Zia, a young girl who discovers that she has been born with an innate sense of magic. Unfortunately, magic has been banned, so she strikes off to train on her own to gain some control over her powers. On her journey, she meets other exiled mages and, discovers runes with magical properties and realizes that she can combine these runes in millions of different ways to come up with completely new spells.
Them's Fightin' Herds
Free on the Epic Games Store: March 6th - March 13th
Them’s Fightin’ Herds is a 2D fighting game featuring a cast of adorable animals designed by acclaimed cartoon producer Lauren Faust. Beneath the cute and cuddly surface, a serious fighter awaits!
Mortal Shell
Free on the Epic Games Store: March 13th - March 20th
Mortal Shell is a deep action-RPG that tests your sanity and resilience in a shattered world. As the remains of humanity wither and rot, zealous foes fester in the ruins. They spare no mercy, with survival demanding superior awareness, precision and instincts. Track down hidden sanctums of devout followers and discover your true purpose.
Jurassic World Evolution 2
Free on the Epic Games Store: March 20th - March 27th
As a celebration of all things Jurassic, Jurassic World Evolution 2 is a worthy successor to the original. As a park management game, it struggles to find a meaningful focal point. Given Frontier’s expertise in this exact department elsewhere, that’s more than a little disappointing. It is a light, messy sim that acts as a tribute to the prehistoric pandemonium of the Jurassic Park/World series. You can read our full review here.
Looking for Epic Game Store sale dates? You can find the complete list for 2025 right here.
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