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Looking forward to being able to write a good article on Steam alternatives, we decided to create this article on how to get free games on Steam and other famous stores such as Epic, Gog and Ubisoft. What may seem at first glance to be a real click-bait title is actually much less so than you think!
In fact, these famous stores release free games more or less regularly on certain occasions. Sometimes games are also released important and famous, other times instead of real gems.
There are therefore bots and systems to automatically carry out these checks and to notify you that a new product has been temporarily made free! We therefore went in search of projects with code Open source and we have decided to report them to you in the hope of doing something pleasant!
How to get free games from Steam, Epic, Gog and Ubisoft
Open source and open to all
- FreeSteamOffers TelegramBot, this is a bot Open source dedicated to the free offers on Steam. If you have Telegram, just start it by writing to him privately /start and you will be notified every time there is a free game on Steam.
- FreeEpicGamesNotifier, this bot also for Telegram is dedicated exclusively to free games available on the Epic Games Store.
- /c/freegames, there is also a community on Lemmy dedicated to free games on various platforms. The community is alive although obviously a little less frequented than the one on Reddit (which we talk about a little further below).
- Discord Free Game Notifier, this is a bot Open source for Discord notifying free games available on Steam, Epic, GOG and Ubisoft. Out of personal necessity I created a Discord server on which to run this bot. If you want, you can enter and use it too, although I can't assure you that it is always up and running: https://discord.gg/8qfkDYua
- RedditFreeGamesNotifier, a Telegram bot that reads some communities on Reddit and notifies you when something is posted. This universally usable version is limited: @azhuge233_FreeGames for a full version you will have to self-host it.
- Get Games (Play Store), an application for Android that will notify you when there are free games for Steam or Epic Store Games. Available only on Play Store.
- Play Deals (Play Store), this application is not dedicated to video games. However, it is an app that reports the paid (and free) applications on offer on the Play Store and among these there may also be games. It is available on Play Store or via APK.
Self-hostable alternatives
These are alternatives that are exclusively self-hostable. Not all of us were able to try them for obvious reasons, but in the meantime we'll point them out to you.
- Discord Free Game Notifier the alternative we also talked about above to be notified about free games from Steam, Epic, GOG and Ubisoft.
- Free Games Claimer, this bot is very complete but we were not able to try it. You can be notified on Slack or Telegram and can search for free games on Epic Games Store, Amazon Prime Gaming, GOG and Unreal Engine.
- RedditFreeGamesNotifier, a Telegram bot that reads some communities on Reddit and notifies you when something is posted.
- GOGGiveawayNotifier, Telegram bot that allows you to find out about free games on GOG.
Free but not Open source
- Free Games Notifier™ | Discord Me, if you have Discord this is perhaps the most complete server to join.
- Reddit: /r/FreeGamesOnSteam
- /r/FreeGamesForPC
- /r/FreeGamesOnSteam/
- /r/FreeGameFindings/
- /r/freegames/, on Reddit there are these communities where people can report free games on various platforms. Remember that Reddit can still be used with users too RSS without having to sign up.
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