You can currently get The Outer Worlds with all its DLC and Thief free from the Epic Games Store

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In brief: It's been a while since the Epic Games Store has freely handed out some big titles as part of its regular week-long promotion, but the latest giveaway is pretty impressive: The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition, which includes all the DLC, and the 2014 version of sneak 'em up Thief.

Available now until April 11, Obsidian's The Outer Worlds can be grabbed gratis by anyone with an Epic Games account. This is the Spacer's Choice Edition of the 2019 RPG, meaning you get the Murder on Eridanos and Peril on Gorgon story expansions in addition to the base game. The DLCs come with the usual added extras, including a raised level cap, new planets to explore, and all-new quests to complete. You also get a load of graphical upgrades, with improvements to the textures and shaders and more detailed characters and environments.

The Outer Worlds drew comparisons with another Obsidian RPG, Fallout: New Vegas, when it was released. The RPG was nominated for twenty different awards across various gaming shows in 2019 and 2020, winning six of them, including role-playing game of the year at the 23rd DICE Awards. It also boasts an impressive Metacritic score of 85 and a user score of 7.9. There's a sequel in the works, too.

If you've never tried The Outer Worlds, it's definitely worth a look, especially if you're a fan of first-person RPGs that offer different ways of tackling problems, fun companions, and game-affecting moral choices. The Spacer's Choice Edition is usually $59.99 and the performance issues present at launch appear to have been addressed, so you're getting a good deal here.

The other free giveaway is Eidos-Montréal's Thief. The 2014 reboot of the series certainly didn't find the same amount of love as the 1990s original or the company's other franchise resurrection, Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Thief has a Metacritic score of 67 and a user rating of 6.4. Although it earned the title of "The most hated Thief game of all time," it does scores higher on the PC platform (70), and it usually costs $19.99, so there's that.

The Epic Games Store is giving away another big title once the current offer ends on April 11: Ghostrunner.

If you're an Amazon Prime subscriber, you can currently download and keep multiplayer action game Chivalry 2 and MMORPG Black Desert for nothing.

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You can currently get The Outer Worlds with all its DLC and Thief free from the Epic Games Store

 

[VaRmeNsI]

Both good games but with Thief I recommend playing them in order (Thief 1/2/3 then this one).

There are patches for the older ones to fix any issues, the gog ones should work straight away though.

 

[Skully]

You need to already own or buy the base game of Outer Worlds, DLC - Peril on Gorgon and DLC- Murder on Eridanos for this DLC to be of any use.

 

[Neatfeatguy]

I didn't think Thief was a very good game. It might be simply due to the fact that I have such a fond memory of the original Thief games.

Outer Worlds interested me until I started reading reviews on it. I may get a free copy of it, but I wonder if I'll ever be bothered to play it.

 

[VaRmeNsI]

I didn't think Thief was a very good game. It might be simply due to the fact that I have such a fond memory of the original Thief games.

Outer Worlds interested me until I started reading reviews on it. I may get a free copy of it, but I wonder if I'll ever be bothered to play it.

It's sort of like Fallout 3/4 but in a different setting.

 

[m4a4]

Got Outer Worlds free during Christmas (I think) on EGS. Tried playing it, put it down after a dozen hours because it just didn't engage me like Fallout 3/4 did...

 

[gdavid65]

Did enjoy Outer Worlds.. I only finish about 2-3 games a year, and that was one of them at the time. I think it suffered some scaling issues, in that once you got to a certain level all encounters became trivial. Still the storyline was ok. Might replay it for the DLC which I never played.

 

[fluffydroid]

I played Thief for Xbox 360 and liked it. But I did not play the other games in the series. It sounds like the 2014 version is one of the weaker Thief games