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Epic Games is Giving Away 16 Free Games for Christmas [Full List]

Published: Jan. 01, 2025
Updated: Jan. 07, 2025

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Once again, the big Epic Games Christmas event is here in 2024! That means free games, huge discounts, and extra rewards for you. At Guided.news, we’ve got all the details for you.

Here's what you can expect:

  • We'll tell you about the Epic Games Christmas promotion that gamers everywhere are discussing.
  • In our list, we'll let you know in advance which games to expect.
  • We'll show you the games that were part of last year's promotion.

The Epic Games Christmas Event 2024

Epic Christmas Promotion: Just like in previous years, Epic Games is giving away free games again. Normally, the Epic Games Store offers one free game per week, but during the Christmas event, it’s been one free game per day for 15 days in the past. This year, you can look forward to a total of 16 games, with the first and last game staying online for an entire week.

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Epic gives away lots of vouchers.

Coupons are back! Along with the free games, Epic is offering a massive discount sale. You can expect price cuts of up to 95%. During the event, the rewards from the Epic Rewards Program increase to 10%. For every purchase you make, you’ll get 10% of the purchase value back as credit, which you can use on other games.

  • You'll start receiving the free games on December 12th.
  • The discount promotion is valid from December 12, 2024, to January 9, 2025.

List of all Free Games in the Epic Games Christmas Giveaway 2024

Hurry! Each of the listed games, except for the first one, is available for just one day. Thereafter, you'll have to purchase these games at their regular price in the store. Click here to visit the Epic Games Store!

We'll update our Epic free games Christmas 2023 list daily with the current games, so make sure to check in regularly. According to the French leaker Billbil-kun, there should be 16 games going online in the Epic Games Store during the Christmas giveaway, so it's going to be exciting.

DateGame
December 12th to 18thThe Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria
December 19thVampire Survivors
December 20thAstrea: Six-Sided Oracles
December 21stTerraTech
December 22ndWizard of Legend
December 23rdDark and Darker - Legendary Status
December 24thDredge
December 25thControl
December 26thGhostrunner 2
December 27thHot Wheels Unleashed
December 28thKill Knight
December 29thOrcs Must Die! 3
December 30th[Redacted]
December 31stSifu
January 1st, 2025Kingdom Come: Deliverance
January 2nd to 9th, 2025Hell Let Loose

We're excited to see which games Epic presents to us daily at 8:00 a.m PT. What games would you like to see in our list during the Epic Game Christmas giveaway? Share your opinion about the Epic Games Christmas promotion 2023 in the comments.

The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria

This is The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria: The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria is a survival-crafting game set in the world of Middle-earth. Playing as dwarves, you embark on a quest to reclaim the lost mines of Moria. Procedurally generated environments await, along with resource gathering, base building, and battles against the creatures lurking in the depths. Explore, survive, and uncover the secrets of the dwarven realms!

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  • Developer: Free Range Games
  • Genre: Survival
  • Release: October 24th, 2023

Vampire Survivors

This is Vampire Survivors: Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you.

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  • Developer: Poncle Limited
  • Genre: Rouge-Lite
  • Release: October 20th, 2022

Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles

This is Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles: Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and an unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.

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  • Developer: Little Leo
  • Genre: Card Game
  • Release: September 21st, 2023

TerraTech

This is TerraTech: TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat & discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft & buy new parts to survive, becoming the ultimate planetary prospector

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  • Developer: Payload Studios
  • Genre: Open World Sandbox
  • Release: October 8th, 2018

Wizard of Legend

This is Wizard of Legend: Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!

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  • Developer: Contingent99
  • Genre: Action-Adventure
  • Release: May 15th, 2018

Dark and Darker - Legendary Status (DLC)

This is Dark and Darker - Legendary Status (DLC): Upgrades a free ‘Squire’ account to ‘Legendary’ status. Legendary accounts get access to the High Roller Dungeons, extra trading privileges, +9 characters slots, unlocks 1 shared stash, and more! Please be careful not to make duplicate purchases.

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  • Developer: IRONMACE
  • Genre: Dungeon Crawler
  • Release: December 23rd, 2024

Dredge

This is Dredge: DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.

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  • Developer: Black Salt Games
  • Genre: Dungeon Crawler
  • Release: March 30th, 2023

Control

This is Control: Control is an action-adventure game by Remedy Entertainment. You play as Jesse Faden, the new Director of the Federal Bureau of Control (FBC), a mysterious government agency dealing with supernatural phenomena. While searching for her missing brother, Jesse faces an enemy force called "The Hiss," which has taken over the FBC headquarters. The game features a dark atmosphere, stunning telekinesis abilities, a nonlinear narrative, and a mysterious, surreal setting.

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  • Developer: Remedy Entertainment
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: August 27th, 2019

Ghostrunner 2

This is Ghostrunner 2: Blood will run in Ghostrunner 2, a hardcore FPP slasher set in a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk future. Become the ultimate cyber ninja and prepare for epic boss fights, improved skills, an interactive story, new game modes, and captivating synthwave soundtrack.

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  • Developer: One More Level
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: October 26th, 2023

Hot Wheels Unleashed

This is Hot Wheels Unleashed: Collect the best vehicles in the Hot Wheels™ universe, build spectacular tracks and dive into breathtaking races. The most iconic and sought after Hot Wheels™ vehicles are waiting for you. Get ready to make them race at full speed!

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  • Developer: Milestone S.r.l.
  • Genre: Racing
  • Release: September 30th, 2021

Kill Knight

This is Kill Knight: KILL KNIGHT is an ultra-responsive arcade-inspired isometric action shooter. Condemned to eternal sufferance, deep within the voids of an eldritch arena, you must wield an arsenal of devastating weaponry to obliterate swarms of otherworldly horrors - and MASTER THE DEMON WITHIN.

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  • Developer: PlaySide
  • Genre: Action-Shooter
  • Release: October 2nd, 2024

Orcs Must Die! 3

This is Orcs Must Die! 3: Slice, burn, toss, zap, grind and gib massive hordes of repugnant orcs in this long-awaited successor to the award-winning Orcs Must Die! series.

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  • Developer: Robot Entertainment
  • Genre: Tower Defense
  • Release: July 23rd, 2021

[Redacted]

This is [Redacted]: In [REDACTED], a fast-action isometric roguelike, a shadowy agent watches Black Iron Prison spiral into chaos. As one of the last guards, fight through monsters, rivals, and reanimated corpses of your fellow guards to escape the penitentiary alive.

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  • Developer: Striking Distance Studios
  • Genre: Dungeon Crawler
  • Release: October 28th, 2024

Sifu

This is Sifu: Sifu is a realistic third-person brawler with tight Kung Fu combat mechanics and cinematic martial arts action embarking you on a path for revenge.

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  • Developer: Sloclap
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: February 8th, 2022

Kingdom Come: Deliverance

This is Kingdom Come: Deliverance: Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a story-driven open-world RPG that immerses you in an epic adventure in the Holy Roman Empire. Avenge your parents' death as you battle invading forces, go on game-changing quests, and make influential choices.

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  • Developer: Warhorse Studios
  • Genre: RPG
  • Release: February 13th, 2018

Here are the Free Games that Were Part of the Epic Games Christmas Event in Past Years

We’ll also let you know which games were available in past years. Epic has given away 15 to 17 free games each year, including plenty of smaller titles but also a few big hits.

2023

  • Destiny 2: Legacy Collection (2023)
  • DNF Duel
  • Melvor Idle
  • art of rally
  • Fallout 3 GOTY Edition
  • Ghostwire Tokyo
  • The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition
  • Human Resource Machine
  • Cursed to Golf
  • Cat Quest
  • Snakebird Complete
  • Saints Row
  • Ghostrunner
  • Escape Academy
  • 20 Minutes Till Dawn
  • A Plague Tale: Innocence
  • Guardians of the Galaxy

2022

  • Bloons TD 6
  • Horizon Chase Turbo
  • Costume Quest 2
  • Sable
  • Them's Fightin' Herds
  • Wolfenstein: The New Order
  • Lego Builder's Journey
  • Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
  • Encased
  • Metro Last Light Redux
  • Death Stranding
  • F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
  • Severed Steel
  • Mortal Shell
  • Dishonored Definitive Edition and Eximius: Seize the Frontline

2021

  • Shenmue 3
  • Neon Abyss
  • Remnant From The Ashes
  • The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
  • Loop Hero
  • Second Extinction
  • Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
  • Vampyr
  • Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition
  • Prey
  • Control
  • Mages of Mystralia
  • Moving Out
  • Salt and Sanctuary
  • Tomb Raider Trilogy

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Sascha Asendorf is the co-founder of Guided.news and has been running online magazines in the gaming sector since 2013. Starting with a strong focus on survival games, Sascha now deals a lot with role-playing games and is an expert on survival and RPG titles like Conan Exiles, Baldurs Gate 3 & Cyberpunk 2077.
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dhjfuj3423452

theres a typo in the fallout games bulletpoint for the list of games from 2022 sorry

Majestics

yeah some of the games get looped just incase anyone missed out on them

GniQQ

More like „because they ran out of good games to give away“.

dylan

Control was given away for free once already.

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