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.
What's free this week on the 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 make a comeback in 2025.
To access these free titles, simply set up an EGS account, navigate to the storefront’s section dedicated to free games, and proceed as if making a regular purchase.
While you’ll need to add the games to your cart, they are offered at no cost. However, to claim these games, you must add them to your library during their free period, which is normally 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
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.
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