Next week’s free Epic Games Store title will reportedly be Daemon X Machina.
The post-apocalyptic mech action game is set to be offered free of charge on Epic’s marketplace from January 27 until February 3.
That’s according to Dealabs user billbil-kun, who has previously leaked the PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold line-ups on multiple occasions, as well as the Epic Games Store’s 15 Days of Free Games promotion.
The Epic Games Store is expected to officially announce next week’s free game today at 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT. Until that time, players can download Stardock Entertainment’s strategy title Galactic Civilizations III free of charge.
From 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT today until the same time on January 27, Relicta will be free of charge. It’s is a first-person physics-based puzzle game in which players combine magnetism and gravity to achieve their goals.
The Epic Games Store gave away over 15 games in the second half of last month, with titles offered free every day from December 16-30.
They included Control, Shenmue 3, Neon Abyss, Remnant: From the Ashes, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Loop Hero, Second Extinction, Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, Vampyr, Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Prey and the Tomb Raider reboot trilogy.
In an article published on VGC last year, Ampere analyst Louise Shorthouse questioned whether Epic’s game giveaways were sustainable in the long term.
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