NEW YORK — The Epic Games Store is deep into its late-December giveaway sprint, swapping out a free title every day and putting headline-grabbing RPGs and indies into players’ libraries at no cost, Dec. 29, 2025.
The Epic Games Store free games push is running alongside the company’s year-end sale. In Epic’s 2025 Holiday Sale buyer’s guide, the company says the sale runs from Dec. 11, 2025, through Jan. 8, 2026, and includes free-game drops and other bonuses.
Epic Games Store free games: the December 2025 daily lineup so far
Epic has scheduled 17 daily giveaways during this holiday stretch, with each “mystery game” usually free to keep for about 24 hours before the next one replaces it at 11 a.m. ET. Here’s the confirmed run of Epic Games Store free games revealed to date, based on PC Gamer’s running tracker:
Dec. 18: Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel
Dec. 19: Eternights
Dec. 20: Blood West
Dec. 21: Sorry We’re Closed
Dec. 22: Paradise Killer
Dec. 23: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Dec. 24: The Callisto Protocol
Dec. 25: Disco Elysium: The Final Cut
Dec. 26: We Were Here Together
Dec. 27: Cassette Beasts
Dec. 28: Skald: Against the Black Priory
Epic has not publicly listed the remaining daily titles (Dec. 29 through Jan. 3) ahead of time, so the final stretch will continue to arrive as day-of reveals.
Standout picks: Disco Elysium and Cassette Beasts
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, the dialogue-heavy detective RPG, headlined Christmas Day’s giveaway and was free for a limited window. Gadgets360’s guide to claiming Disco Elysium laid out how to redeem the game through the Epic launcher or web store.
Cassette Beasts followed as one of the most talked-about indie gets of the week, pitching a Pokémon-like creature-collector where players “record” monsters to cassette tapes and fuse forms into new hybrids. In PC Gamer’s breakdown, Cassette Beasts’ online co-op and fusion system were key reasons it stood out during its one-day run.
How to claim the Epic Games Store free games before they rotate out
To grab Epic Games Store free games, log in during the giveaway window and click “Get” on the day’s title — once claimed, it stays in your library. Epic’s Free Games hub is the fastest way to see what’s live and when the next swap is scheduled.
A giveaway tradition that keeps expanding
Epic has used freebies as a storefront hook since launch. When it opened the Epic Games Store in 2018, the company said it would fund a free game every two weeks through 2019. By mid-2019, Epic had shifted the program to weekly giveaways, a change covered by Tom’s Hardware’s report on the move to weekly free titles. The holiday daily model is the flashiest version of that playbook; a recap from The Escapist’s 2024 daily holiday giveaway list shows how the year-end cadence has become a fixture.
For players, the bottom line is simple: check in daily, claim fast and treat the Epic Games Store free games lineup as a limited-time calendar — miss a day and that title usually disappears when the clock hits 11 a.m. ET.
