• Weekly reminder to claim your Epic and Prime games

    From Justisaur@justisaur@yahoo.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Thu Oct 23 15:28:29 2025
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    Epic has some POS horror game that looks like a roblox reject I didn't
    even bother to claim. Go get it if you don't mind cluttering up your imaginary ownings for the number.

    Amazon Prime seems to have moved the claim page to:

    https://luna.amazon.com/claims/home?g=s

    Vampire: The masquerade something game I haven't heard of through Epic.
    so whatever.

    A bunch of games to claim through GOG. I did notice
    * XCom 2
    * Hellslave - which I think was o.k. but probably too Indy (i.e.
    graphics aren't great) for most. Might have been through somewhere else already, I don't remember.

    Also had 3 I didn't bother to look further into, but took for the number.
    * True Fear (2 parts of some part, horror game of some sort)
    * Empty Shell (has a guy in a gas mask, could be anything)

    Spalls, you do this better, we miss you!
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  • From candycanearter07@candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Fri Oct 24 15:30:05 2025
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    Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> wrote at 22:28 this Thursday (GMT):
    Epic has some POS horror game that looks like a roblox reject I didn't
    even bother to claim. Go get it if you don't mind cluttering up your imaginary ownings for the number.

    Is it just me or has the epic freebies gotten worse?

    Amazon Prime seems to have moved the claim page to:

    https://luna.amazon.com/claims/home?g=s

    Vampire: The masquerade something game I haven't heard of through Epic.
    so whatever.

    A bunch of games to claim through GOG. I did notice
    * XCom 2

    Is it good? I've heard good things about XCom.

    * Hellslave - which I think was o.k. but probably too Indy (i.e.
    graphics aren't great) for most. Might have been through somewhere else already, I don't remember.

    Also had 3 I didn't bother to look further into, but took for the number.
    * True Fear (2 parts of some part, horror game of some sort)
    * Empty Shell (has a guy in a gas mask, could be anything)

    Spalls, you do this better, we miss you!


    yeah :( come back
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  • From Justisaur@justisaur@yahoo.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Fri Oct 24 13:46:56 2025
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    On 10/24/2025 8:30 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
    Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> wrote at 22:28 this Thursday (GMT):
    Epic has some POS horror game that looks like a roblox reject I didn't
    even bother to claim. Go get it if you don't mind cluttering up your
    imaginary ownings for the number.

    Is it just me or has the epic freebies gotten worse?

    There's been some gems in the past year but the majority are utter
    garbage. 80/20 rule (or more like 95/5 these days.)

    A bunch of games to claim through GOG. I did notice
    * XCom 2

    Is it good? I've heard good things about XCom.


    I never played any besides the 1994 original, many years after it was released, which I found a tad too difficult and never finished. It
    looks like this is from the 2012 reboot/remake, and is turn based RPG/Strategy. It looks a bit like Midnight Suns which was given away
    not long ago only aliens vs. human troops instead of marvel.

    Reviews on Steam are very positive (85 for all time 90 for recent)
    that's pretty good scores.

    While you need prime to pick up the code for GOG, I'll note it's on sale
    on steam for $3.
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  • From rms@rmsmoo@moomoo.net to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Fri Oct 24 15:00:38 2025
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    https://luna.amazon.com/claims/home?g=s

    Thx Justisaur! Here's a code for the worthy to grab!
    Uryyfynir uggcf://jjj.tbt.pbz/erqrrz/8HIDR8S6SS0223SNRP

    rms
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