Epic Games Store Free Games This Week: What's Free Right Now

The Epic Games Store runs regular free game giveaways open to everyone using the service. Every week, one or more titles can be added to your library for good at no extra cost. This article rounds up the games currently available for free, details on upcoming giveaways, a step-by-step guide to claiming them, and an archive of past promotions.

Until September 3 at 18:00 UTC+3, users can claim Breathedge for free — an adventure survival game set in outer space — along with Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition, an equestrian sports simulator. Once activated, the games stay in your Epic Games Store account library permanently.

Breathedge is a tongue-in-cheek survival simulator set in outer space. A giant space hearse crashes deep in the void, leaving behind wreckage, coffins, dead passengers, and one lone survivor — the protagonist. You'll gather resources, craft tools, pilot vehicles, and uncover a global conspiracy, all while surviving the vacuum and its strange phenomena.

Gameplay blends exploration of the wreckage, crafting, station building, and story-driven storytelling packed with dark humor. It offers an open world full of secrets and a story campaign with plenty of unexpected twists. A sequel is set to enter early access on August 31, 2026.

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Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition is an equestrian sports simulator with a deep horse-breeding system. You take over an abandoned family ranch and set out to restore it to its former glory — raising foals, competing in races, and building the stable of your dreams.

The game features a story mode and online multiplayer, races on tracks around the world inspired by real-life venues, cross-country events with obstacles, and virtual betting. The breeding system lets you produce foals with unique coats and markings, while a built-in editor lets you create the perfect horse and share it with the community.

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The giveaway runs until September 3 at 18:00 UTC+3. Once it ends, the Epic Games Store will open up its next weekly free giveaway.

From September 3 at 18:00 UTC+3 until September 10 at 18:00 UTC+3, the Epic Games Store will be giving away Alone With You — a sci-fi adventure game with a pixel-art style.

Claiming the games is very simple:

Once claimed, a game automatically appears in your Epic Games Launcher library. Launch the app, sign in to your account, and open the "Library" section. Find the game in the list or use the search bar. You don't have to download the game while the giveaway is running — simply adding it to your library is enough. After that, it stays tied to your account permanently and can be installed at any time.

In most cases, new free games appear every Thursday at 18:00 Moscow time. During holidays and special promotions, Epic Games may change the usual schedule.

Below are answers to common questions about free games on the Epic Games Store: whether they stay in your library forever, whether you need to install them right away, and whether a bank card is required.

Yes. If you add a game to your library before the giveaway ends, it stays on your account permanently.

No. Simply claiming it is enough.

Usually not. In most cases the order goes through for free, with no bank card linked.

Yes. Once a game is in your library, it stays available with no restrictions.

That depends on the specific promotion. Epic Games sometimes gives away DLC separately, but more often the base game is required to claim or use the add-on.

This section collects the Epic Games Store's past free giveaways for 2026. The archive lets you check which games were previously available to add to your library and on which dates the earlier promotions ran.