Machinika: Museum free on Steam

13 May @ 2:46pm - jbondguy007

The 3D puzzle game Machinika: Museum is free to claim on Steam until May 27.

LINK

Kudos goes to CptRussia for the heads up on this one.

Details:
- Steam
- Claim to keep until May 27th, @ 12:00pm CST
- ASF command:

Enjoy!

jbondguy007
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1 Mar @ 3:30pm - jbondguy007

Space Crew: Legendary Edition is currently free on Steam until March 14th, in celebration of the developer's upcoming game - Badlands Crew.

LINK

Details:
- Can be claimed until March 14th 9:00am CST

Enjoy!

jbondguy007
Remember to bring your towel

Driftland: The Magic Revival free Steam key from Fanatical

13 Feb @ 1:58pm - jbondguy007

Fanatical are giving away free Steam keys for Driftland: The Magic Revival in celebration of the Lunar New Year of the Dragon.

LINK[www.fanatical.com]

Details:
- DRM: Steam
- Account required (Fanatical)
- Task required (subscribing to Fanatical newsletter)
- Offer valid until February 20th, or until supplies last
- Steam store page for evaluation

Enjoy!

jbondguy007
FGF freebie announcer revival

Announcement incoming, but in the meantime, Driftland: The Magic Revival free on Fanatical.

https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/driftland-the-magic-revival

Chill out with Christmas vibe in Pixel Puzzles 2: Christmas, free on Indiegala.

https://freebies.indiegala.com/pixel-puzzles-2-christmas

You can get your hands on a permanent copy of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon on Ubisoft Connect (Uplay) until October 11th. Announcement incoming.

https://register.ubisoft.com/ghostrecon-giveaway/en-US

Better to claim your daily freebies during the sale first if you want to save on points, the frame can drop as well.

I am so, so sad to learn it's a sticker this year, and not an emote. There goes my hopes to have a dragon version of the emote...

I will say, we do have a thread (albeit VERY rarely used) titled "Free-to-Play Recommendations Thread" which may fit the bill. It's currently dead. Maybe we could make it a bit less dead.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/freegamesfinders/discussions/2/1864993937061346064/

Nice, thanks for compiling this list as always, LH!

Moving this here from the FGS thread.

Originally posted by Bogysha:

Free DLC: The Oregon Trail — Cowboys and Critters DLC

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2316610/The_Oregon_Trail__Cowboys_and_Critters_DLC/

Moving here.

Originally posted by thales.ulisses:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1438020/Potion_Commotion_Fanbook/

3 months of free Discord Nitro for users who have never had Discord Nitro (including gifted Nitro). You'll receive your link to claim your free 3 months of Nitro by email - give it some time, it took around 30 minutes for me.

The offer ends on June 24.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/discord--discord-nitro

Love to see the year in review as always! Thanks for taking the time to always compile these for us, LH.

I've updated the thread to suggest concealing keys.

With that said, we won't enforce a rule to do so - in the end, how the owner of the key(s) want to give them away is up to them alone. I think people don't typically want to spend time dealing with concealing keys before posting them here (otherwise wouldn't it make more sense to create giveaways on Steamgifts and such?), and we should respect their choice and appreciate their generosity regardless of the consequences caused by the way in which the keys were posted.

I can understand the frustration, but keep in mind that people giving away keys here don't owe you anything, and even if the keys goes to bots... in the end, that's their choice. If they wouldn't want that to happen, they would have certainly taken steps to prevent it.

Title: This War of Mine
Platform/DRM: GOG

Claimed a key from the current giveaway (see announcements) while testing to write the instructions, but already own it on Steam. I'd hate to see it go to waste.

Originally posted by Hamstersex:

Originally posted by Bizarrefrank:

Bot are auto using it

You know this is an urban legend, right?

They aren't as uncommon as you'd expect. While bots specifically may be less common, I know for a fact that claiming keys quickly is *extremely* easy with ASF - you can pretty much just copy and paste key lists in a single, simple command to try all keys almost instantly.

That aside, bots are quite common - if it can be done, you can expect some people to have done it. It is generally best practice to mask keys with quick "bot gates" type puzzles/riddles if you prefer your keys to go to someone who at least bothers claiming keys manually.

With that said, in the end it is ultimately up to the poster's choice whether or not they want to bother with bots/automation-prevention or not.

Originally posted by Friunt:

https://discord.com/invite/pTUupKE

The FGF Discord server actually doesn't use that bot. We do have a bot which notifies when a freebie is announced in the group, though.

Gamehag is one of these grey-area websites that *are* safe and trusted to a certain point - they are not malicious or a threat to your security/safety.

However, unlike most giveaways we announce, gamehag giveaways are those "complete tasks to receive a key" kind of thing, not unlike Gleam giveaways. We don't announce these, but we typically do allow the posting of these giveaways in the Free Games Sharing thread as that thread is "unfiltered" freebies, and the occasional giveaway not everyone will want to participate in is to be expected - it's still a freebie, and as long as there's nothing too suspicious or invasive with the giveaway, we'll leave it up for those who are interested.

Now, on the topic of why the link is filtered on Steam, we've discussed the matter in the Discussions thread, and I've included my opinion on the matter, which you can read here.

That was a pretty solid year for freebies. Thanks for compiling this nice list as usual, LH!