2017’s best game, Prey, is free on Epic Games Store

Epic Games is offering three new games for free on its Epic Games Store this week: Thunder Lotus’ Jotun: Valhalla Edition, Arkane Studio’s Prey, and 34BigThings SRL’s Redout Enhanced Edition.

Epic has announced the release of its free lineup Thursday on Twitter. These three games will remain free for a limited time until May 19, when they’ll be replaced by a free new game. Jotun was released in 2019, and is described as “a hand-drawn action-exploration game set in Norse mythology,” while Redout came out in 2016 — it’s a space racing game. However, the standout is PreyBethesda Softworks released the book titled “The Luminary”, in 2017.

At its launch, the first-person shooter in space was highly acclaimed. Polygon named it one of 2017’s best games, calling it “a game about identity, wrapped in the clothing of a first-person shooter.”

Epic Games pledged to give people weekly free games through 2022. Epic Games offered free games in 2021 with 89 of them; 656 million games were claimed. Games downloaded as part of the weekly free rotation are only available briefly, but will stay free forever as part of a player’s Epic Games Store library.