Wednesday, November 22nd 2023
Epic Games Store Black Friday Event Kicks Off
Welcome to Epic Games Store's Black Friday Event 2023! Why launch it on a Tuesday? With the return of the Epic Coupon, delivering 33% off of eligible transactions, and a boost to 10% Epic Rewards, we couldn't wait until Friday to tell you! Save on a range of top games!
From Nov. 21, 2023 at 11 AM ET / 4 PM GMT / 5PM CET until Nov. 28, 11 AM ET / 4 PM GMT / 5 PM CET, any eligible transactions (see the Terms and Conditions), or shopping carts of $14.99 or over will have a 33% discount applied at checkout. And the coupon is limitless, so you'll receive one following each eligible transaction completed for the duration of the event. We'll also be boosting our Epic Rewards program to 10% for the duration of the event. We've crafted a Black Friday Buyer's Guide to help you out. We've gathered some highlights below, listing great titles new and old, but it's just a taste of the range of games that you can buy this Black Friday. Enjoy!
Epic Games Store Black Friday Event 2023 Buyer's Guide
Alan Wake 2
A return to Remedy's story about stories, twisting their literal literary thriller into a survival horror. Alan has been trapped in a limbo of his own making for 13 years; meanwhile, FBI agent Saga Anderson is investigating a series of murders in the real world. Play as both characters, fighting to release Alan and uncover the secrets of Bright Falls.
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria
Dig deep. Dig greedily. The co-operative survival game, The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria, lets players delve as dwarves into the ancient Mines of Moria, a dreadful place where the evils of Middle-earth still lurk. Set-up a base and mine for resources in the mountain, uncovering the ancient secrets and battling the Orcs and Goblins who have settled down into the darkness.
Witchfire
A brutal, compelling roguelite first-person shooter, where you're the one weapon the Vatican has against evil: a sinner turned into a gun-toting, magic blasting witch hunter. Take on the legions of wraiths and ghouls, blasting the hordes and absorbing their Witchfire. It's a lively world, changing according to your progress, as the Witch of the Black Sea crafts ever more deadly scenarios to delay your progress.
Payday 3
Payday 3 takes the co-operative crime series to new heists. The game is a smash (and grab), where players raid vaults, art dealers, and more for a share of the wealth. Band together to take out security systems, bag the loot, and get out. Cause too much chaos, and you'll set off a series of battles against the police.
Lords of the Fallen
Lords of the Fallen is a remarkable soulslike-adding new mechanics to the staples of the genre. Big, bad bosses roam the land, and deft, accurate combat mechanics require mastering to get anywhere. But the land of Mournstead has a shadow realm, creating a dual-reality that players must switch between to progress. It's a great twist.
Ghostrunner II
A sharp, skill-based battle though a dystopian world, where you spring headlong into action. The cyber-ninja game is full of platforms and short, snappy battles where one hit is enough to take down an enemy, but it's also the same for you. One hit will take you out.
Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty Bundle
Cyberpunk 2077's DLC and 2.0 upgrade rewrote the game, bringing more people back to Night City with reworked tech, weapons, driving, police and more. Phantom Liberty adds a new area called Dogtown, where the player must take V into the heart of an insurrection and act like a cool spy.
Assassin's Creed Mirage Deluxe Edition is 20% off
The latest Assassin's Creed is a throwback to the series' beginnings. The Baghdad based Basim is a proto-assassin, investigating various troubles and often solving problems with the point of his blade. There's more focus on stealth and cunning than the recent sprawling titles, but there's plenty to do, see, and, of course, stab.
Sonic Superstars is 30% off
Sonic Superstars is a speedy return to 2D platforming for Sega's blue blur. Inspired by the loops and leaps of the console age games, the newest game brings a lot of playful polish to the classic design. If you're a new player or a fan of the series, it's a great game to grab.
The Crew: Motorfest Gold Edition is 40% off
The Crew: Motorfest is a festival for car enthusiasts. They gather together on the island of O'ahu, with 600+ plus vehicles to pick from. Everything from rally cars, monster trucks, and even boats and planes are available for players to enjoy, and the Hawaiian open world is a gorgeous, vast island to explore.
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Epic Games Store
From Nov. 21, 2023 at 11 AM ET / 4 PM GMT / 5PM CET until Nov. 28, 11 AM ET / 4 PM GMT / 5 PM CET, any eligible transactions (see the Terms and Conditions), or shopping carts of $14.99 or over will have a 33% discount applied at checkout. And the coupon is limitless, so you'll receive one following each eligible transaction completed for the duration of the event. We'll also be boosting our Epic Rewards program to 10% for the duration of the event. We've crafted a Black Friday Buyer's Guide to help you out. We've gathered some highlights below, listing great titles new and old, but it's just a taste of the range of games that you can buy this Black Friday. Enjoy!
Alan Wake 2
A return to Remedy's story about stories, twisting their literal literary thriller into a survival horror. Alan has been trapped in a limbo of his own making for 13 years; meanwhile, FBI agent Saga Anderson is investigating a series of murders in the real world. Play as both characters, fighting to release Alan and uncover the secrets of Bright Falls.
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria
Dig deep. Dig greedily. The co-operative survival game, The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria, lets players delve as dwarves into the ancient Mines of Moria, a dreadful place where the evils of Middle-earth still lurk. Set-up a base and mine for resources in the mountain, uncovering the ancient secrets and battling the Orcs and Goblins who have settled down into the darkness.
Witchfire
A brutal, compelling roguelite first-person shooter, where you're the one weapon the Vatican has against evil: a sinner turned into a gun-toting, magic blasting witch hunter. Take on the legions of wraiths and ghouls, blasting the hordes and absorbing their Witchfire. It's a lively world, changing according to your progress, as the Witch of the Black Sea crafts ever more deadly scenarios to delay your progress.
Payday 3
Payday 3 takes the co-operative crime series to new heists. The game is a smash (and grab), where players raid vaults, art dealers, and more for a share of the wealth. Band together to take out security systems, bag the loot, and get out. Cause too much chaos, and you'll set off a series of battles against the police.
Lords of the Fallen
Lords of the Fallen is a remarkable soulslike-adding new mechanics to the staples of the genre. Big, bad bosses roam the land, and deft, accurate combat mechanics require mastering to get anywhere. But the land of Mournstead has a shadow realm, creating a dual-reality that players must switch between to progress. It's a great twist.
Ghostrunner II
A sharp, skill-based battle though a dystopian world, where you spring headlong into action. The cyber-ninja game is full of platforms and short, snappy battles where one hit is enough to take down an enemy, but it's also the same for you. One hit will take you out.
Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty Bundle
Cyberpunk 2077's DLC and 2.0 upgrade rewrote the game, bringing more people back to Night City with reworked tech, weapons, driving, police and more. Phantom Liberty adds a new area called Dogtown, where the player must take V into the heart of an insurrection and act like a cool spy.
Assassin's Creed Mirage Deluxe Edition is 20% off
The latest Assassin's Creed is a throwback to the series' beginnings. The Baghdad based Basim is a proto-assassin, investigating various troubles and often solving problems with the point of his blade. There's more focus on stealth and cunning than the recent sprawling titles, but there's plenty to do, see, and, of course, stab.
Sonic Superstars is 30% off
Sonic Superstars is a speedy return to 2D platforming for Sega's blue blur. Inspired by the loops and leaps of the console age games, the newest game brings a lot of playful polish to the classic design. If you're a new player or a fan of the series, it's a great game to grab.
The Crew: Motorfest Gold Edition is 40% off
The Crew: Motorfest is a festival for car enthusiasts. They gather together on the island of O'ahu, with 600+ plus vehicles to pick from. Everything from rally cars, monster trucks, and even boats and planes are available for players to enjoy, and the Hawaiian open world is a gorgeous, vast island to explore.
31 Comments on Epic Games Store Black Friday Event Kicks Off
Steam you start up and look around and talk to friends etc without ever touching a game, Epic store feels so baren and lifeless, not a place you want to "hang out"
and its not like its hard to change that....which makes me respect their "hardships" less and less, they are just not putting in the simple work it requires....
Stop being a blind twat and fix your damn store. Faith in your storefront is sub zero now, which means no buy, even if its practically free. Holy shit man, how stupid can you get.
Heck, did you miss the simple fact Valve is practically selling Steam right now to its customers? People want to be there, for the simple fact EGS lacks all the things Steam does have - and did have ever since EGS exists. Its not like there's a moving target here. Its just sitting there, showing what's what and raking in dollars with budget titles, for nearly two goddamn decades now.
Wow, a coupon.
tbh, that's a better investment of time & money, they're incapable of creating an actual, useable piece of software/ecosystem anyways
so just let problems fight themselves, and reap the benefits
A MAJOR point is that epic here has no regional pricing to speak off, even with steam fucking us up with their new change in regional pricing epic is still more expensive.
And at "street" price, i'd rather go for GOG before epic or steam.
Funny you mention torchlight 2, i finished it for the first time yesterday with my brother hahaha, i've had it since forever
Steam you just start up and you happen to maybe see a new product you are interested in, why would you ever start up EGS when its just not a fun place to be? and then you wont buy games there either.
also just to be clear, I dont much care for Steam these days either, they are far too corporate nowadays, far from the game developing pioneers of yor, CS2 is pretty cool I guess but overall....
Them just giving up and letting their platform get flooded with absolute garbage and/or porn....we still dont have a tag to exclude porn, you can exclude Mature Content and Nudity but then you also wont see The Witcher or Cyberpunk or many other games so that isnt a solution, I need the ability to lock out porn and I want them to get off their asses and make a new source engine and some new games again.
(oh and their extremely pathetic cowering for Nintendo with the emulator was/is preeeeeetty bad)
Game shortcuts open the game "if you're lucky that is" steam this is not automatic though if you have ie11 turned off in windows features lol
Think steam games are way overrated & overpriced personally and terribly bloated app and the dpi it uses is complete shit.
Don't care about the steam forums or anything like that and in that regard EPIC is all the same to me with its non existing forum,etc. 'even if it had one I wouldn't care'
Start up the damned launcher then the game I'm playing and thats about it. 'I also don't care about achievements lists or whatever'
Tbh I've bought more games on EPIC in the past years than on Steam and I've had zero issues there so far.
Tho I generally don't care about this which launcher/game store is the best argument, I just buy my games where its the cheapest at the time of my interest and call it a day.
www.epicgames.com/help/en-US/epic-games-store-c5719341124379/launcher-support-c5719357217435/can-the-epic-games-launcher-detect-previously-installed-games-a5720251596059
That, or epic pissed you off when they decided to compete via timed exclusivity, which tbh is not the way to go when it comes to competition.
I also recall complaints about the speed of the launcher itself, see here this video from alex battaglia of DF: x.com/Dachsjaeger/status/1721858886448095707?s=20
*note that some say that alex's egs install was a bit borked, but alex is also on a top of the line computer, so no clue there.
I wouldn't have a problem buying from the EGS if epic hadn't been as anti consumer in the beginning, and instead worked on ironing out the technical issues that they do have rather than simply buying up exclusivity without trying to improve the storefront itself and how it works.
I remember the time that I tried to use the EGS not being the best, it didn't feel that functional when trying to download UE5 related things.
In other words: Womp womp
Torchlight2 was better than Torchlight and that was a Diablo 2 light for me. They really messed Torchlight 3 too. In some ways it feels like Dawn of War 3 and we know what that wasThat is correct. Since we are talking about narrative the best time for Epic and when they gained the most traction was the Xmas period of last year. When they gave us AA and AAA Games everyday during the holidays. Of course there is also the narrative of what happened after. AMD launched AM5 and Intel released Z690 and Z790, with those releases came fresh installs. That is where the ugly truth of Epic comes to bite you in the butt and the narrative swung back heavily in the favour of Steam and GOG. As we are talking about narrative Epic focuses on issues that we could care less about as one of the things that Steam had to give us was complete control of our Digital library to make us not punish them for the loss of real products. I know times have changed but it is still much better to do 2 clicks to recover TBs of Games than to face the prospect of having to redownload or do real work for no pay on your PC to get things back.
Now we have this Black Friday effort that cannot even compete with Green Man Gaming or Fanatical. I used to think that these platforms were inert but it is some of the hypocrisy that Epic employs against us as well. How the hell can Epic be seamless with GOG Galaxy but not the PC it is installed on?
¿what do you mean by I will say this do not get Epic unless you have 2 or even 3 drives."?
What I mean is when you update Windows, Epic gives you no access to your Games. When you go to the Epic site it tells you what I discovered on my own. If you don't want to download the entire Game again start the download on a drive that does not contain the files. Stop the download after about 30 M/s of data so the necessary files are downloaded. Copy the data from the source drive and paste into the new folder that has been created and resume the download. If there were no major updates Epic will transfer the files from one drive to the next. If you are a recommended user you have a C drive and D drive. As you want to store data on your D drive that is probably where your Epic library resides. Instead of putting those files on your NVME boot drive you could have another drive to move those files to so your OS drive does not become too full and effect performance as modern boards have at least 7 drive supports..