What’s free on the Epic Games Store this week?

polygon.com:

PC gamers with an Epic Games Store account (it’s free) can pick up Warpips, a roguelite military strategy game drawing on the gameplay of the Command and Conquer series and StarCraft’s popular Nexus Wars mods. It’s free to download, play, and keep from the Epic Games Store, beginning Thursday, February 16.

Launched in April 2022, developer Skirmish Mode Games calls Warpips a “deep, tug-of-war strategy game,” that is easy to learn, but difficult to master. Players control aerial, vehicular, and infantry units and set them loose on a battlefield governed by physics-based combat.

Warpips is available to claim now, but only for the next seven days. Last week’s free game, Recipe for Disaster, is back in the marketplace at its regular price.

The Epic Games Store freebies are available to anyone who has an (also free) Epic Games Store account; they’ll be added to your library and launched from there. Epic has been giving away free games on a weekly basis, as an inducement to join the store (and play Epic’s own games, such as Fortnite), since it launched in December 2018.

The next free game coming from the Epic Games Store will be Duskers, another roguelike which launched in 2016 and which Polygon reviewer Charlie Hall called “a solid lock for one of my personal games of the year.” In it, players control several drones by command-line interface — i.e. keyboard only — as they explore a derelict spaceship and try to piece together the mystery behind its demise. Duskers will be available beginning Feb. 23 at 11 a.m.

Typically, Epic refreshes its lineup of free games every Thursday at 11 a.m. ET/8 a.m. PT.