Epic Games Store Launches Holiday Sale 2023 With Discounts, 17 Free Games and More

[GFreeman]

We want you to have the happiest of holidays for 2023, so we've put together the most festive sale. It has thousands of discounted games, limitless 33% Epic Coupons, an Epic Rewards boost to 10%, 17 free games, and free cosmetics for everyone. The event runs from today (Dec. 13, 2023) 11 AM ET (4 PM GMT / 5 PM CET), to Jan. 10, 2024 11 AM ET (4 PM GMT / 5 PM CET) Read about the highlights below!

Thousands of titles on sale, limitless 33% Epic Coupons, and an Epic Rewards boost to 10%!
In addition to the thousands of discounted titles, from today (Dec. 13, 2023) 11 AM ET (4 PM GMT / 5 PM CET), to Jan. 10, 2024 11 AM ET (4 PM GMT / 5 PM CET), any eligible transactions at, above, or adding up to $14.99 or higher will have a 33% Epic Coupon automatically applied at checkout (see Terms and Conditions). The Epic 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 Holiday Sale.



Holiday Sale 2023 highlights
We've gathered together some of the sale's highlights. These are all incredible games and represent just a small selection of the thousands of titles discounted during the Holiday Sale.

Alan Wake 2
Remedy's long-planned sequel is a remarkable game, mixing live-action and meta commentary with survival horror. Alongside Alan is a new controllable character, Saga Anderson. As Alan desperately tries to write his way out of a limbo of his own creation, Anderson's real-world investigation drags her deeper into Bright Fall's dark past. Help is at hand in our Alan Wake 2 guide.

As an added bonus, anyone who buys Alan Wake 2 during our Holiday Sale will receive a digital voucher code for one copy of Alan Wake Remastered on PC. Offer ends January 10, 2024, see page for full details.

EA SPORTS FC 24
The game living rooms were invented for. EA SPORTS FC 24 has thousands of players and hundreds of teams to choose from. Things are slicker than ever on the pitch, with animation motion-captured during real games, and the most recognizable players on the planet at your control. Learn the basics of football with our guide.

Assassin's Creed Mirage
Assassin's Creed Mirage wants you to remember the origins of the series. It's a game as sharp as a blade, pared down from the vast RPG the series has slowly become over the years. Now it's focused on missions, powers, and parkour, as Basim learns to be an assassin in the crowded streets of Baghdad. Get started with our early skills guide.

Payday 3
Find yourself in your criminal element. Plan and execute heists with up to three other masked friends. Battle banks for the contents of their vaults, hit exclusive clubs for their evening's profits, and assume something somewhere will go wrong. A good heist is fun, but a bad heist will be the bullet-riddled job of a lifetime. Read how to pull off the perfect heist in our guide.

Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria
The Dwarves return to their homeland to dig up their ancient treasures and reclaim their rightful home. It's the perfect setting for a survival crafting game: dig deep, build bases, fight orcs, and uncover the secrets that were lost thousands of years ago. The co-operative mining game allows eight friends to form their own fellowship, and our guide will help you progress.

Lords of the Fallen
Lords of the Fallen is an action RPG with a world-changing twist on the Soulslike formula. Axiom is shadowed by Umbral, a realm that's always there, waiting for you to die. Lose in Axiom and you can battle back to your body in the harsher realm of Umbral, restoring yourself and carrying on your quest to overthrow the demon God. Make a strong start with our beginner's guide.

Dead by Daylight: Ultimate Edition
The asymmetrical multiplayer nexus of all horror. Play the victim as one of four Survivors trying to escape the horror. Or be a Killer, a creature plucked from a roster of classic horror villains, stalking your prey through levels while wielding chainsaws, hatchets, and more. It has original designs and several DLCs of famous monsters to embody.

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
The perfect game for the holiday season. Swing through a snow-blanketed Manhattan as Miles Morales adjusts to his new life as Spider-Man. With Peter off on a European adventure, Miles is left to protect the city by himself. It's full of web-slinging and big battles, augmented with Morales's new powers: he can blast electricity, and turn invisible.

God of War
Kratos has a new life, raising a son in frosty Midgard, and looking for a quiet life as a fallen God. Things change. Striving to fulfill a promise to his dead wife, he must lead his son through the dangerous realm. Though it has some weighty themes, it's also a spectacular third-person action game. Kratos is the God of War, and battles everyone with the power and skill of that position. His axe is one of gaming's greatest weapons.

Featured cosmetics!
We have some fantastic festive freebies to grab right now.

Fall Guys
Grab the Giddy Gift for Fall Guys! The present-themed Costume will make you a real presence in the Blunderdome.

Warframe
Log-in to Warframe via the Epic Game Store during the sale to grab the Atterax Weapon, a 7-Day Affinity Booster, and a 7-Day Credit Booster.

Honkai Impact 3rd
Celebrate the Epic Games Store Holiday Sale and get 500 Asterites and 100,000 Coins in Honkai Impact 3rd for FREE!

Disney Speedstorm
Grab the Monochromatic Pack for Disney Speedstorm to get: Racing Suit for Goofy: Monochromatic Classic, Kart Livery for Goofy: Monochromatic Classic, Chip n' Dale Rare Crew Shards, and 5 Universal Box Credits!

Idle Champions of Forgotten Realms
The Dungeons & Dragons strategy management game will drop some lovely loot. The Dark Justiciar Shadowheart Party Pack comes with the Dark Justiciar Shadowheart Skin, the Shadowheart Epic Feat, Champion Unlocks for Shadowheart, Lae'zel, and Astarion, and 7 Chests and 1 Guaranteed Shiny Card for Shadowheart, Lae'zel, and Astarion.

SYNCED
Show off in the co-op shooter with The Winterfest Bundle, which includes the New Season Pack, with an Epic Exclusive Weapon Skin, Runner Layla Outfit, and Avatar, and the General Pack with 10 Automat Coins and a VIP pass.

World of Warships
Look ship shape with World of Warships. Their pack has 1x Pan-Asian Ning Hai Cruiser, 15x Eco Boosts (2 of each kind, 2 levels), 5x Santa's Gift containers, 1x Epic patch, 10x EGS camouflage, 10x New Year Sky camouflage.

EVE Online
You'll feel pretty cosmic with the Superluminal Pack, with four stunning new SKINs and a set of unique Capsuleer clothing!

17 free games!
he Epic Games Store Holiday Sale 2023 is full of free games for the duration of the sale, and the first one has just gone live! Head to the Epic Games Store Free Games page to find out all the details.

Enjoy the sale, everyone!

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[b1k3rdude]

I did recently, for a few seconds consider getting an Epic account. But then the plague of "Epic Online Services" became apparent and this killed the idea stone dead. All but one of the games are low-end on the qaulity scale, so no great loss there.

• EOS malware - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=epic+online+services+malware&t=ffab&ia=web
• EOS spyware - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=epic+online+services+spyware&t=ffab&ia=web
• Single player games wont launch unless EOS has access to the internet - https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Si...+unless+EOS+has+access+to+the+internet&ia=web
• Tencent - https://www.visiontimes.com/2021/07...the-seventh-largest-company-in-the-world.html

Its one thing to create a competing gaming platform, but another to plague other platforms with whats basically spyware & telemetrics. Epic's crusade is a sham and its ethics and treatment of customers laid bare.

Dont forget that Epic is part owned by a Tencent, who also has stakes in Ubisoft & Riot. Said chinese company is controled by the CCP, so its not a case of if, but how much telemetry from the aformentioned companies is being funneled to an entity with multiple documented cases of humans rights abuse.

 

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

Sadly, the first "Free game" is just DLC for Destiny 2, as in there's a label that says "Base game required".
Destiny 2 is free as well, linked from the description.

 

[Chrispy_]

I did recently, for a few seconds consider getting an Epic account. But then the plague of "Epic Online Services" became apparent and this killed the idea stone dead. All but one of the games are low-end on the qaulity scale, so no great loss there.

• EOS malware - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=epic+online+services+malware&t=ffab&ia=web
• EOS spyware - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=epic+online+services+spyware&t=ffab&ia=web
• Single player games wont launch unless EOS has access to the internet - https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Si...+unless+EOS+has+access+to+the+internet&ia=web
• Tencent - https://www.visiontimes.com/2021/07...the-seventh-largest-company-in-the-world.html

Its one thing to create a competing gaming platform, but another to plague other platforms with whats basically spyware & telemetrics. Epic's crusade is a sham and its ethics and treatment of customers laid bare.

Dont forget that Epic is part owned by a Tencent, who also has stakes in Ubisoft & Riot. Said chinese company is controled by the CCP, so its not a case of if, but how much telemetry from the aformentioned companies is being funneled to an entity with multiple documented cases of humans rights abuse.

I work with corporate firewalls and when I looked at the logs attempting to setup security rules for Epic (we use UnrealEngine and Twinmotion, so getting the full EGS client working securely would be useful) I noped out of there harder than I've done in years.

I don't run Epic at home, and I cannot permit Epic to run at work without setting myself up for a gross negligence tribunal.

 

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

I work with corporate firewalls and when I looked at the logs attempting to setup security rules for Epic (we use UnrealEngine and Twinmotion, so getting the full EGS client working securely would be useful) I noped out of there harder than I've done in years.

I don't run Epic at home, and I cannot permit Epic to run at work without setting myself up for a gross negligence tribunal.

This is why I use "Heroic Launcher" to play Epic, GoG & Amazon games on Linux

 

[TheDeeGee]

I did recently, for a few seconds consider getting an Epic account. But then the plague of "Epic Online Services" became apparent and this killed the idea stone dead. All but one of the games are low-end on the qaulity scale, so no great loss there.

• EOS malware - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=epic+online+services+malware&t=ffab&ia=web
• EOS spyware - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=epic+online+services+spyware&t=ffab&ia=web
• Single player games wont launch unless EOS has access to the internet - https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Si...+unless+EOS+has+access+to+the+internet&ia=web
• Tencent - https://www.visiontimes.com/2021/07...the-seventh-largest-company-in-the-world.html

Its one thing to create a competing gaming platform, but another to plague other platforms with whats basically spyware & telemetrics. Epic's crusade is a sham and its ethics and treatment of customers laid bare.

Dont forget that Epic is part owned by a Tencent, who also has stakes in Ubisoft & Riot. Said chinese company is controled by the CCP, so its not a case of if, but how much telemetry from the aformentioned companies is being funneled to an entity with multiple documented cases of humans rights abuse.

I was wondering when Anti-Epic posts would show up, didn't take long, lol.

Why are you connected to the internet btw?

 

[Frick]

I work with corporate firewalls and when I looked at the logs attempting to setup security rules for Epic (we use UnrealEngine and Twinmotion, so getting the full EGS client working securely would be useful) I noped out of there harder than I've done in years.

I don't run Epic at home, and I cannot permit Epic to run at work without setting myself up for a gross negligence tribunal.

Can you elaborate on this?

 

[Chrispy_]

Can you elaborate on this?

For me it was about 3 years ago when we first started using Unrealengine and Twinmotion. I run NG firewalls so it's not the useless old practice of opening ports - I have to create application profiles and services, then whitelist specific domains. I spent the best part of a day going through Epic's full domain whitelist, checking if stuff worked, monitoring packet logs, adding more (undocumented) URLs and IP ranges, rinse-repeat. The sheer amount of undocumented outgoing data to IP ranges that matched CDNs that I didn't recognise (in other words, not AWS, Cloudflare, Google, Azure or Epic themselves) was alarming.

By the end of the full workday, I had a whitelist that contained more rules, services, ranges, and SSL decryption exceptions than Microsoft, Adobe, and Autodesk combined, and Epic still didn't work smoothly 100%. I gave up in the end, removed the majority of what I'd added to try and actually isolate the EGS client and now just download updates to it from the DMZ and push those out to workstations using PDQ copy and registry scripts.

In short, there was so much undocumented, undisclosed, attempted outbound traffic to unresolved IP ranges that I simply wasn't comfortable letting it run on the production network. Things might have changed in the last year or two, but my experience wasn't dissimilar to the absolute nonsense these guys found when monitoring what the executable was doing. EGS seemingly takes massive liberties with the device you install it on and violates so many base privacy rights that I'm somewhat surprised they haven't been class-actioned yet.

 

[Dragokar]

Well at least EPIC makes money with EGS......oh wait......

 

[PapaTaipei]

Hard pass. They'd need to pay me good money to use their "service".

 

[LazyGamer]

I have 230 games on Epic that I paid total of $0. How many free games does Valve give away? Aside from taking incredible 30% cut from developers just for listing a game on their store.

 

[Dragokar]

I have 230 games on Epic that I paid total of $0. How many free games does Valve give away? Aside from taking incredible 30% cut from developers just for listing a game on their store.

They only take 30% up to a certain limit. Tell me, if you have an answer, how does epic exclusive titles helped the game industry and us players? Besides, you shared your data with more than one party.

 

[LazyGamer]

They only take 30% up to a certain limit. Tell me, if you have an answer, how does epic exclusive titles helped the game industry and us players? Besides, you shared your data with more than one party.

List of those exclusives is very small and most are timed. It helps developers. UE is free and idk if Epic changed anything, but if your game makes less than 1 million, Epic takes nothing. And when they do, they take 12%. Thank God there is competition to Steam monopoly. Valve is incredibly greedy company.

 

[Dragokar]

List of those exclusives is very small and most are timed. It helps developers. UE is free and idk if Epic changed anything, but if your game makes less than 1 million, Epic takes nothing. And when they do, they take 12%. Thank God there is competition to Steam monopoly. Valve is incredibly greedy company.

It is longer than it should be if a company claims to be good for the players, and the companies that take EGS money only enslave themselves imo. Steam also provides a way better platform, especially compared to the early days of EGS.

Also, the 30% is more or less the common ground, even Humble Bundles takes that (more or less). For me, it is also important where the money that they use to buy and enslave exclusive titles is important. That's why I also don't buy Lexar products, for example.

The giveaways are only good for two things, gather “pseudo” market share and collect personal data like cell phone numbers i.e.

I don't judge or blame you for taking the so-called free games, but you should not tell others to do it on your way, since I don't condemn you for it.

 

[Deleted member 177333]

For me it was about 3 years ago when we first started using Unrealengine and Twinmotion. I run NG firewalls so it's not the useless old practice of opening ports - I have to create application profiles and services, then whitelist specific domains. I spent the best part of a day going through Epic's full domain whitelist, checking if stuff worked, monitoring packet logs, adding more (undocumented) URLs and IP ranges, rinse-repeat. The sheer amount of undocumented outgoing data to IP ranges that matched CDNs that I didn't recognise (in other words, not AWS, Cloudflare, Google, Azure or Epic themselves) was alarming.

By the end of the full workday, I had a whitelist that contained more rules, services, ranges, and SSL decryption exceptions than Microsoft, Adobe, and Autodesk combined, and Epic still didn't work smoothly 100%. I gave up in the end, removed the majority of what I'd added to try and actually isolate the EGS client and now just download updates to it from the DMZ and push those out to workstations using PDQ copy and registry scripts.

In short, there was so much undocumented, undisclosed, attempted outbound traffic to unresolved IP ranges that I simply wasn't comfortable letting it run on the production network. Things might have changed in the last year or two, but my experience wasn't dissimilar to the absolute nonsense these guys found when monitoring what the executable was doing. EGS seemingly takes massive liberties with the device you install it on and violates so many base privacy rights that I'm somewhat surprised they haven't been class-actioned yet.

Great post, thank you. If there's a game out I want to play that's exclusive to Epic I'll just hop on a boat and add it to Steam as a non-Steam game versus ever creating an account with Epic.

 

[Chrispy_]

Great post, thank you. If there's a game out I want to play that's exclusive to Epic I'll just hop on a boat and add it to Steam as a non-Steam game versus ever creating an account with Epic.

Valve aren't exactly saints either, but at least they ask permission for things and their traffic is going out to IP ranges and domains that are registered to Valve.

As a home user with Windows on your PC I don't think there's too much you have to worry about with EGS. Yes, you're giving up privacy and personal information to Epic but simply using your Windows PC on a consumer home internet router with super basic firewall rules means you've already given up most of the privacy and personal information already - whether that's knowingly or unknowingly.

Yes, Epic are shady and anticompetitive in how they gather data they shouldn't be gathering from places they shouldn't be looking at, but I'm fairly certain that privacy ship has already sailed for most people. If you want a free game from EGS, go get it. The needs of a multi-million-dollar corporate production network running on half a million dollars of firewall and network security are not the same as protecting your Steam library contents from the competition.

The most nefarious thing Epic are likely to do with that information is aggressively-targeted advertising.

 

[LazyGamer]

Valve aren't exactly saints either, but at least they ask permission for things and their traffic is going out to IP ranges and domains that are registered to Valve.

As a home user with Windows on your PC I don't think there's too much you have to worry about with EGS. Yes, you're giving up privacy and personal information to Epic but simply using your Windows PC on a consumer home internet router with super basic firewall rules means you've already given up most of the privacy and personal information already - whether that's knowingly or unknowingly.

Yes, Epic are shady and anticompetitive in how they gather data they shouldn't be gathering from places they shouldn't be looking at, but I'm fairly certain that privacy ship has already sailed for most people. If you want a free game from EGS, go get it. The needs of a multi-million-dollar corporate production network running on half a million dollars of firewall and network security are not the same as protecting your Steam library contents from the competition.

The most nefarious thing Epic are likely to do with that information is aggressively-targeted advertising.

Guys, if you're connected to internet, your data is being sold and whatnot being done with it. I don't care what kind of security experts people think they are. I don't do anything on internet that I'm worried some company or security agency will find out. And I don't care if everyone knows my porn preference. MILF. I love them MILF's.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

It is longer than it should be if a company claims to be good for the players, and the companies that take EGS money only enslave themselves imo. Steam also provides a way better platform, especially compared to the early days of EGS.

Also, the 30% is more or less the common ground, even Humble Bundles takes that (more or less). For me, it is also important where the money that they use to buy and enslave exclusive titles is important. That's why I also don't buy Lexar products, for example.

The giveaways are only good for two things, gather “pseudo” market share and collect personal data like cell phone numbers i.e.

I don't judge or blame you for taking the so-called free games, but you should not tell others to do it on your way, since I don't condemn you for it.

-Yep. Steam does not have competition. EGS isn't providing competition.

When EGS provides basics like forums and big picture mode and Linux support and a controller API layer or advances PC gaming with things like Index or Deck or Link... Then I'll consider EGS.

The argument against Steam in most cases is incredibly myopic. They charge 30% yes, but they put a lot of that money back into having the best platform/store available on the PC.

EGS takes a smaller cut, but provides less in return to the PC gaming ecosystem than Steam does. So I'm all onboard the Steam train.

 

[Scrizz]

I was wondering when Anti-Epic posts would show up...

They killed my Paragon
**** Epic

 

[b1k3rdude]

• I noped out of there harder than I've done in years.
• I don't run Epic at home, and I cannot permit Epic to run at work without setting myself up for a gross negligence tribunal.

The first point made me laugh out loud, a perfect example of a sane reaction! The second is quite a damning inditment, just out of curisoty how bad was it, what exactly were you having to allow through for EGS/EOS to work.

Why are you connected to the internet btw?

Well your clearly in the "too uninformed to know better camp", so I refer you to Crispys reply to my post dear end user.

Guys, if you're connected to internet, your data is being sold and whatnot being done with it. I don't care what kind of security experts people think they are. I don't do anything on internet that I'm worried some company or security agency will find out. And I don't care if everyone knows my porn preference. MILF. I love them MILF's.

Well sorry but no, if life were only that simple. If you even have half a passing interest in protecting your privacy you can actually do quite a lot. But then your part of the "I aint don nigffink wrong, so I have nugffing to hide camp", so good luck with that. But I cant argue with your sentiment on Milfs.

If you want a free game from EGS, go get it.

Im increasingly looking at the future where I will either have dual-system rig and a kvm, or VM's with proper hardware virtulisation with near baremetal performance. One for gaming and one for everything else.

• Tencent - https://www.visiontimes.com/2021/07...the-seventh-largest-company-in-the-world.html

Dont forget that Epic is part owned by a Tencent, who also has stakes in Ubisoft & Riot. Said chinese company is controled by the CCP, so its not a case of if, but how much telemetry from the aformentioned companies is being funneled to an entity with multiple documented cases of humans rights abuse.

Oh dear, not - https://www.techpowerup.com/316983/...cent-netease-and-other-gaming-stocks-crashing