The freegames community has been going for a year and a half now, probably time I updated the info.
This is a place to post limited-time giveaways of full video games that are then yours to keep forever at no cost. Please use the search to check what you’re posting hasn’t already been posted, and start your posts with [Source] or [Store via Source] so that people can ignore giveaways they’re not interested in. For example, if Fanatical were giving away a Steam key for Pong, I’d title the post [Steam via Fanatical] Pong.
I post deals as I find them (sometimes spread out over a few days or bundled together so it doesn’t get too noisy) but feel free to post them if you find them first.
If you have keys that you’d like to give away then !giftofgaming@lemmy.world is a better place to post.
The main exception to the limited-time giveaways only rule is for the occasional posting of games which are always free. On Fridays you can post a game that’s permanently free if you think it’s worth showcasing to everyone. Maybe it’s a FOSS project, maybe it’s a game that’s gone free-to-play, just make sure that the post starts with [Forever-Free Friday] and that it’s something worth playing and not just the publishers trying the freemium model instead!
If you want notifications for new posts you can subscribe to the community’s RSS feed, and if you want more granular notifications you can use Lootscraper to get site-specific RSS feeds and skip the need for this community entirely!
Nothing is ever completely free, and there’s a definite hierarchy to the kinds of giveaways posted here:
We’re all adults here and I hope you don’t need to be told to be wary of blindly installing dodgy software or not to support companies you don’t like. If you don’t want to see giveaways from a particular source and you use a Lemmy client which supports filters then you can block specific strings from showing, for instance if you didn’t want to see anything from Amazon then you could hide the string Prime].
Keep it civil and keep it chill!
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]]>Dungeon 30 is a fast-paced isometric action-puzzle game where every step counts. Dive into a world built entirely with a clean voxel aesthetic, where your goal is simple but the execution is deadly: survive 30 increasingly difficult dungeon levels.
- Challenging Levels: Navigate through 30 unique floors filled with lethal spike traps, moving platforms, and environmental puzzles.
- Voxel Graphics: Enjoy a polished retro-modern look featuring high-contrast lighting and a minimalist 3D grid layout.
- Unlockable Skins: Customize your experience! Use points earned during your runs to unlock a variety of unique character skins in the Skins Menu.
- Intuitive Gameplay: Easy to learn, yet hard to master. Perfect for quick sessions or speedruns.
Source:
]]>No description, so I’m guessing from the screenshots
]]>]]>game where you play as a virus Against Humanity
]]>NO ONE INSIDE is a short horror experience where your only goal is simple: survive the night. You accepted a challenge — stay inside an abandoned house until morning and earn the money. But something feels wrong… Strange sounds echo through the darkness. Every step you take might bring you closer to something… or something closer to you. You are not alone. But no one is inside.
]]>Today marks your final exam to become a wizard. Will you pass the test?
Immerse yourself in Mystic Academy, an exhilarating escape room that will challenge your magical prowess. Solve puzzles, decipher mystical artifacts, learn spells, find hidden objects, and explore your wizardry school.
Overcome daunting trials to prove your wizardry skills and succeed in the exam!
- All puzzles require logic (and a touch of your wizard skills).
- Explore diverse rooms in your wizardry school.
- Uncover more about your magical abilities, learn new spells, and put them to the ultimate test!
]]>Build your city. Survive the disaster. Lead the recovery.
Resilience is a city-building and disaster response game where every decision matters. Design thriving communities, expand your city, and prepare for the unexpected. When disaster strikes, it’s up to you to dispatch emergency services, protect your citizens, restore essential infrastructure, and lead your city through its darkest moments.
This project began with a simple idea shared between a father and his son—to create something together. What started as conversations around the dinner table slowly grew into the game you’re about to play.
It’s our very first game, and while there’s still plenty we’d love to add, we’re incredibly excited to finally share it with you.
If you choose to download Resilience, thank you.
If you enjoy playing Resilience, or if you think there’s something we could do better, we’d love to hear from you.
Thank you for taking the time to play our game.
We hope you enjoy building your city…
Features
- Build and expand your own city
- Face unpredictable natural disasters
- Dispatch emergency response teams
- Restore power, water and critical infrastructure
- Grow stronger after every challenge
]]>one hit wonder is a brutally hard, claustrophobic bullet-hell/dungeon-crawler where every bullet is lethal
- 24 rooms
- intense, fast paced combat
- a sick bullet time mechanic
]]>The trees know where each step has been taken. The forest is not only the place, but a cycle that must be broken in this harsh 2D game. Become adept at sharp gameplay mechanics and an ever-changing setting.
- Difficult 2D Platforming: Test your reflexes with accurate jump physics, smooth controls, and tough movements. In such a cruel world, a slip-up may cost you your life.
- Mechanics of the Stone of Life: Create checkpoints in safe zones in order to respawn when you fail.
- Scary Corrupting Enemies: Fight a selection of enemies, which consist of the corrupters of Lopi’s debtors, transformed by dark magic into terrifying and aggressive creatures.
- Progression Through Treasure Hunting: Explore hidden paths and ruined areas in order to collect gold coins. Earn enough money in order to pay off Lopi’s debt and grant him his well-deserved freedom.
- 2D Art Style: Enjoy the atmospheric game world of a forest that combines intense gameplay.
Looks a lot like Monument Valley
]]>Poly Vita is a thought-provoking isometric puzzle game with turn-based elements, that takes you on a journey through various worlds. The game is about a lost wanderer named Maya, who has been stuck inside her dreams for a long time in search of the missing fragments of her soul.
Throughout the game, you will help Maya restore the pieces of her soul, allowing her to finally awaken. If you love challenging puzzle games then Poly Vita is a game for you! At the same time, the game’s relaxing atmosphere with no timers means you can take your time to solve each puzzle.
]]>Decide the fate of the world in this ingenious story-driven card game. Foretales offers a unique take on the adventure genre, with a multitude of playstyles and story paths through which you can save the world… or bring about its end.
A terrible curse is ravaging the realm and the only one who can stop it is a small-time thief named Volepain.
The Weaver entrusted the instruments of creation to her children, the Nymphants.
The Weaver put in the hands of her children the fate of the world’s creation and stability. The instruments of creation have the power to create and destroy the many worlds of Foretales.
Discover the true goals of the Nymphants and the Cult or embrace the Maelstorm for eternity!
Foretales tells the story of a world doomed by a dark prophecy. With the clock ticking on the apocalypse, it’s up to you to decide how to use what little time is left.
If you want to find the path to salvation, you’ll need to decide what’s best for you and your companions!
FEATURING
- Expansive branching storylines with multiple endings
- Card-based gameplay
- Decksploration gameplay
- Unique “board game” feel
- Superb artistic direction
- Original score by Christophe Héral (Rayman, Beyond Good & Evil)
- Turn-based card combat
- Great replay value
- Original story and world
- Huge cast of characters
- Narration by Travis Willingham (Critical Role, The Legend of Vox Machina)
8-ball pool for the Playdate.
Control the cue with the crank and face off against your friends with pass & play or 4 different CPU personalities.
- 3 difficulty levels
- Aim assist settings
- Unlockable trophies
]]>Test your multitasking skills by juggling two games at once using both the buttons and the crank. 8 games and 3 difficulty modes to master.
This is very good! And marked as local co-op and local pvp
]]>PolyDefend
A roguelike tower defense where every run plays different.
Defend your core against waves of geometric enemies by choosing towers from random card offerings. No two runs are the same — adapt your strategy to what you’re dealt.
]]>The Network of Shadows
You’re an intelligence operator assigned to an urgent case: someone inside the CSC organization is leaking data to an unknown entity. Your only tool is an old terminal connected to the internal network.
Navigate the operating system, read classified emails, decrypt files, trace network connections, and analyze source code to uncover the mole — before they find you first.
The Network of Shadows is a narrative hacking game where everything happens inside a retro Amiga-style desktop, complete with CRT and VHS effects.
]]>Introducing Powerdown!
In Powerdown, you must survive and pick up power-ups! Be careful, the enemy can pick up the power-ups before you!
Features:
- 8 power-ups!
- 7 different ranks!
- 79 different characters to play as!
- Randomly generated map! Get Powerdown today!
]]>Welcome to Escape Academy. Train to become the ultimate Escapist. Solve puzzles. Hack servers. Meet the faculty. Brew the perfect cup of tea. Escape rooms in single player or co-op with a friend - local or online!
Handcrafted Puzzles
Play over a dozen masterfully handcrafted rooms, designed by experienced experts in the field of real-life escape rooms.
Local/Online Co-Op
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’s Respected Curriculum
- Attend a Tea 'N Tea Party - Can you defuse the bomb before your tranquil cup of tea gets cold?
- Hack the Professor - Solve a quantifiably feverish series of challenges to prove to the Academy’s super A.I. that you’ve got the skills to become an Escapist.
- Go for the Gold - Represent your class in everyone’s favorite sporting event, The Rival Room. Go toe-to-toe against your nemesis in a puzzle-race to prove who’s top of the class. Don’t Drown! - Being at the bottom of a puzzle-tower that’s rapidly filling with water is not ideal. Scramble to the top for that sweet, sweet oxygen.
- Spray Paint the Monument - Art class is no Easy-A at the Academy. Leave your mark on the historic Monument of Escape, but hurry! The Headmaster didn’t exactly approve the lesson plan.
Tournament of Puzzles
Hit the road with Coach Yoach in Escape Academy: The Tournament of Puzzles! This major content update features three massive arenas, three new game modes, puzzle power-ups, additional achievements, and lots of puzzles.
Brave the wasteland in this post apocalyptic top-down shooter. Unlock a variety of weapons through raids against adaptive enemies that act independently. Your top priority is survival, no matter what it takes.
Play as Jeffrey Moore, a news anchor desperately searching for more big stories since his breakthrough with his report on the events from See Through Static. When Dreadlight begins to feel the entity’s ominous presence, will you soothe their fears or inflict deeper horrors?
Play as Detective Kane and investigate the ominous broadcasts that seem to be causing some sort of mass hysteria. Will you solve the case, or will your obsession lead to your end?
Find hidden clues in 5 cryptic tapes using a TV with only 2 buttons, one to toggle pause/play and one to rewind 1 second. Uncover the deeper meaning and dark story of this unique psychological indie horror game!
Attempting to accept his brother’s death, Rowan Walker seeks help. Reliving his nightmares to uncover repressed details from his past.
]]>Play as Sarah Morrow, an apprentice working under her father in their family Morgue. The mass deaths in Dreadlight have gotten worse, but through your work you come to a horrific realization. When it seems all is lost, will you be there to expose the truth… or die trying?
]]>FRAMED Collection is a new compilation of the critically-acclaimed, multi-award winning noir puzzle games FRAMED and FRAMED 2.
Change the order, change the outcome.
Rearrange the panels of an animated comic book to craft the story of a noir-styled spy adventure. Presented in an extensive series of visual puzzles, requiring logic and imagination, each panel move changes the current narrative, leading to all kinds of comedic blunders, untimely deaths - and when solved correctly - stylish heists, fast getaways and nail-biting escapades.
With multi-award winning, genre-bending puzzle design, stylish hand crafted art and animation, a satisfying difficulty curve, and an original live jazz soundtrack - fusing modern themes and funky beats - the FRAMED Collection is a unique experience no other puzzle game can match.
The Complete FRAMED experience
FRAMED Collection is a new compilation of the award-winning, noir puzzle games FRAMED and FRAMED 2. Escape effortlessly into the stylish, pulp-noir spy world of FRAMED, before delving deeper with the more challenging prequel FRAMED 2.
Simple, but uniquely clever puzzle design
Select animated comic panels and move them around using your logic skills and your imagination to craft the best outcome. Getting the story ‘wrong’ is as much part of the experience as getting it ‘right’, with every rearrangement telling a different, satisfying - and sometimes very comedic - story.
Hand-crafted noir art and animation
From the first frame to the last, FRAMED collection oozes with stylish, noir, award-winning art and animation. Unique, hand-drawn silhouetted characters, incredibly fluid animations, and beautiful, mysterious settings all bring the FRAMED world to life with a wink of mischievous personality.