Epic Games Store's free games this week: Breathedge and a horse racing sim

[Orca]

The Epic Games Store is giving away Breathedge and Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition for free through September 3rd, with both titles normally priced at $24.99 each. Once claimed, both games stay permanently attached to your Epic account even after the promotional window closes, following Epic's standard weekly giveaway model that's run continuously since 2018

Breathedge is a first person survival game set in the wreckage of a destroyed spaceship, where players manage oxygen levels, scavenge materials, craft equipment and gradually explore farther into the surrounding debris field while investigating what caused the disaster, all narrated with a distinctly dark comedic tone that includes a recurring immortal chicken companion. Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition covers racing, breeding, selling and cross country riding, alongside virtual race betting mechanics

Notably, Breathedge was also given away free on Steam for 48 hours back on August 7th, meaning this marks its second free promotional window in under a month across two different storefronts. Once this week's freebies rotate out, Epic's next giveaway starting September 3rd will be Alone With You, a 2017 adventure game about escaping a doomed space colony. Curious whether people have grabbed either of this week's free games yet, or are holding out for next week's offering instead

You can grab 2 great PC games for free from the Epic Games Store this weekwww.dlcompare.com

[Amber_44]

Breathedge getting a second free promotion across two different storefronts within a month is honestly a bit unusual, publishers don't typically want to devalue a title that quickly right after it was just free somewhere else

[GrimUpNorth53]

An immortal talking chicken as a companion in an otherwise fairly grim space survival setting is such a specific tonal choice, that kind of dark comedy mixed with genuine survival tension is a hard balance to actually pull off well

[NovaPrime]

Alone With You being next week's pick is a good reminder how varied these giveaways can be week to week, one week it's space survival and horse racing, the next it's a narrative adventure from nearly a decade ago

[SpinorWave]

Epic's weekly giveaway model running continuously since 2018 is honestly a pretty remarkable long term customer acquisition investment, curious how the company actually measures whether it's paying off financially at this point

[Oscar73]

Always worth grabbing these even if you're not planning to play immediately, permanent library additions cost nothing and there's a decent chance you circle back to one eventually during a slow week

[Mesh Gareth]

Rival Stars Horse Racing feels like the more niche pick of the pairing this week, but the breeding and betting mechanics could genuinely hook people who wouldn't normally seek out a racing sim on their own