Sometimes class is more important than quantity: for example this weekend. Only three games are free on Steam and Epic, but they’re all worth a look. As always, you can only play some of them for three or four days free of charge as part of a free weekend – but at least one candidate is permanently free. And that’s enough preliminary banter, let’s go.
Highlight of the week: The Sims 4
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The Sims 4 – From debacle to long-running hit
Genre: life simulation | developer: Maxis | Release: 2. September 2014 | Free to play until: February 7, 7 p.m
The Sims is the most popular pool ladder removal sim in the world. You lure people into swimming pools and deny them the chance to get out again. Okay, and all around there’s probably the best life simulation of all time. The Sims 4 doesn’t change that either, although it originally looked different. Many features that fans had grown fond of over the years were missing at the time of release – but in 2022 there will not be much left of these problems.
Even without one of the millions of DLCs, you get enough content here to build your personal dream home and then live in it for hundreds of hours. Your Sims form relationships, talk about penguins, dare dalliance in their children’s tree house, pursue umpteen bizarre careers and, and, and. In short: The Sims 4 is awesome. And completely free to play until Monday.
There’s also a discount of 88 percent, which reduces the basic game to less than 5 dollars. However, you pay noticeably more for the DLCs, so we will help you sort them out:
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How to get The Sims 4: The free action has already started on Steam. go there to the product page of The Sims 4 and add the game to your library with one click. Then the download starts and off you go.
More free games
This week there are also two other candidates that you can try for free or get free.
World War 3
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World War 3: Trailer for Beta wants to convince Battlefield fans
Genre: Multiplayer-Shooter | developer: The Farm 51 | Release: October 20, 2018 | Free to play until: February 7, 1 p.m
World War 3 is a constant up and down. Originally, the multiplayer shooter fell flat on its face despite its playful strengths, but now it is planning its big comeback. The timing is good: Battlefield 2042 has disappointed most fans – and World War 3 hits exactly the notch that many have wished for Battlefield 2042: Huge multiplayer battles in the modern military scenario.
But can the second attempt work? It’s best for you to find out for yourself, because the open beta is open to everyone. You can join the fray until February 7th. However, access is a bit complicated.
How to get World War 3: There are basically two ways into the World War 3 beta. You can on the World War 3 Steam page request access to the beta. This can be done with one click, but of course you are then dependent on the approval of the developer. Alternatively load World War 3 on MY.GAMES (this is actually the way developers prefer).
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
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Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair – Gameplay-Trailer des 2.5D-Ablegers
Genre: Platformer | developer: Playtonic Games | Release: October 8, 2019 | Given away until: February 10, 2022
Have you ever played Donkey Kong Country or Banjo-Kazooie? Then Yooka-Laylee and the unreachable hideout will make you happy. After the predecessor was a 3D platformer in the legacy of Super Mario 64, Yooka-Layle and the Impossible Lair goes full 2.5D. So on 3D models, which move through umpteen colorful levels in 2D.
The story is primarily a canvas for countless dad jokes, but the real strength of Yooka-Laylee lies in the catchy gameplay anyway: you hop through crisp worlds, avoid opponents, solve a skill puzzle here and there. Just old school.
This is how you get Yooka-Laylee: Switches to Epic product page by Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair and add the game to your account for free. By the way, you’ll get the thing for free if you grab it by next Thursday.
More free promotions in February 2022
As every month, all Amazon Prime subscribers will also get the Prime games in February for free. However is given
Of course, this is the wrong term, because you have to pay monthly for the membership.
In addition, GOG also offers a cool inventory from permanently free GOG games where always worth a look. Here are mainly retro games in the package.
And last but not least there is of course a very cool full version for all members of GameStar Plus! This month you’re getting Styx: Shards of Darkness, a pretty whimsical stealth game.
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