Update 6/10: It seems that this Epic Games Store leak was inaccurate. The new Epic Games Store free game is Control.

Original story follows.

For the past few weeks, the Epic Games Store has been giving away free mystery games. Every Thursday morning, a new Epic Games Store free game is added to the launcher for users to claim with absolutely no strings attached, and a countdown timer starts for the next free game. While fans will have to wait until Thursday, June 10 at 10:00am CT to learn what the next Epic Games Store free game is for sure, it may have already leaked online.

The big rumor right now is that the next Epic Games Store free game is Drug Dealer Simulator, though there doesn't seem to be any concrete evidence backing this up. Various outlets and commenters online have made the claim, but there's less backing it up than the Epic Games Store free game leak from a couple of weeks ago - and even that turned out to be inaccurate. Considering this, fans should take this information with a massive grain of salt for now.

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The last time the Epic Games Store free game "leaked," the belief was that Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration would be the free game for June 3. An ad that was supposedly featured on the French Epic Games Facebook page said as much, but the ad was pulled and the Epic Games Store free game for June 3 turned out to be Frostpunk instead. But maybe if Drug Dealer Simulator isn't the next Epic Games Store free game, perhaps it will be Rise of the Tomb Raider. Of course, it's possible the next Epic Games Store free game isn't Drug Dealer Simulator or Rise of the Tomb Raider, but rather something completely different and unexpected.

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Regardless of what the next Epic Games Store free game is, fans should have at least a couple more free games to look forward to. The free games are part of the Epic Mega Sale, which lasts until Thursday, June 17. Afterwards, the Epic Games Store will likely go back to announcing the next free game ahead of time, as it usually does.

Most of the time, Epic Games Store users know exactly what to expect from the free games lineup. But sometimes the Epic Games Store uses these mystery free game promotions to drum up extra interest in whatever big sales it has going on. It did something similar around this time last year, and it also did a 15 Days of Free Games event to countdown to Christmas. So while there's probably an end in sight for the current batch of Epic Games Store free mystery games, fans can count on the company doing something similar at some point down the line.

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