Epic Games Store has made it a tradition to celebrate the holiday season with a slew of free games. Each day brings with it a brand new free game, with Epic Games not revealing the game until it's available to its users. However, a list leaked online showing all of the Epic Game Store free games for December 2020, and while its legitimacy was questioned at first, it now definitely seems to be the real deal.
Posted online by Twitter user jovamunja, who says it was sent to them, the list has so far been 100% accurate. The Epic Games Store free games list leaked Cities: Skylines, Oddworld: New n Tasty, The Long Dark, Defense Grid: The Awakening, and now Alien: Isolation, which is the free Epic Games Store game for December 21. Going 5 for 5 means that the rest of the leaked Epic Games Store free games list is likely accurate, and so fans should know what games to look forward to next.
Unless Epic Games diverges from the leaked list, the next set of free games are, in order: Metro 2033, Tropico 5, Inside, Darkest Dungeon, My Time at Portia, Night in the Woods, Stranded Deep, Solitairica, Torchlight 2, and Jurassic World Evolution. The list is a mix of big budget releases as well as critically-acclaimed indie games, with Metro 2033, Inside, and Night in the Woods standing out as particularly well-regarded games.
On one hand, it's nice for Epic Games Store users to know which games are going to be made for free, so they can remind themselves to hop on the launcher and claim whatever ones they want. On the other hand, it's likely disappointing for Epic Games that its free holiday giveaway promotion was spoiled online. After all, the Epic Games Store is giving away these games for free, and while its ultimate motive may be to get more people using the Epic Games Store Launcher, it can still be seen as a nice thing its doing for the community.
Regardless, Epic Games Store users should be able to expect a steady stream of free games even after the holiday event wraps up. Epic Games Store gives away free games multiple times per month, ranging from indie games to some bigger blockbuster titles. The biggest free game its given away is arguably Grand Theft Auto 5, which actually caused the Epic Games Store to crash. Whether or not something on the level of Grand Theft Auto 5 is ever made free again remains to be seen, but there should still be plenty of free titles to look forward to in the months ahead.