{"id":5273,"date":"2022-05-12T18:25:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/2017s-best-game-prey-is-free-on-epic-games-store\/"},"modified":"2022-05-12T18:25:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:25:23","slug":"2017s-best-game-prey-is-free-on-epic-games-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/2017s-best-game-prey-is-free-on-epic-games-store\/","title":{"rendered":"2017&#8217;s best game, Prey, is free on Epic Games Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"source-title\">2017&#8217;s best game, Prey, is free on Epic Games Store<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-text\">\n<div>\n<p >Epic Games is offering three new games for free on its Epic Games Store this week: Thunder Lotus&#8217; <em>Jotun: Valhalla Edition<\/em>, Arkane Studio&#8217;s <em>Prey<\/em>, and 34BigThings SRL&#8217;s <em>Redout: Enhanced Edition<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p >Epic has announced the free <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EpicGames\/status\/1524766362056282114\">Thursday lineup on Twitter <\/a>. All three will be available for free until May 19, when a new free game become available. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/store.epicgames.com\/en-US\/p\/jotun\"><em>Jotun<\/em><\/a> was released in 2019, and is described as &#8220;a hand-drawn action-exploration game set in Norse mythology,&#8221; while <em>Redout<\/em> came out in 2016 &#8212; it&#8217;s a space racing game. The standout, however, is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/store.epicgames.com\/en-US\/p\/prey\"><em>Prey<\/em><\/a>, which was released in 2017 by publisher Bethesda Softworks. <\/p>\n<p >The first-person space shooter was critically-acclaimed at its release. Polygon named it one of 2017&#8217;s best games, calling it &#8220;a game about identity, wrapped in the clothing of a first-person shooter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p >Epic Games has committed to giving people weekly free games throughout 2022. In 2021, it offered 89 free games; in total, 656 million free games were claimed. Games that were downloaded in the weekly rotation will be available for a short time, but they will remain free forever in a player\u2019s Epic Games Store library. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"source-image\">https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/XA0Sl_7CxP7Up0a8UHmwhZlc6hY=\/0x0:1920&#215;1005\/fit-in\/1200&#215;630\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/9828231\/Prey_GOTY_header.jpg<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-link\">https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2022\/5\/12\/23068666\/prey-jotun-redout-free-games-epic-games-store<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017&#8217;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&#8217; Jotun: Valhalla Edition, Arkane Studio&#8217;s Prey, and 34BigThings SRL&#8217;s Redout: Enhanced Edition. Epic has announced the free Thursday lineup on Twitter . All three will be available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}