ABOUT THE LISTS
Sources & updates
Free Game Watch is an independent catalogue of PC games listed free on official stores. It is not affiliated with Valve, Epic or GOG. Store artwork belongs to its respective owners. We do not sell keys or ask for your store password.
What “free” means here
- Upcoming releases: Steam marks the base game as free and coming soon. No price shown on an unreleased page alone is not enough. Dates remain exact dates, windows or TBA as supplied by the store.
- Giveaways: a paid base game has a dated free-to-keep promotion. Only zero-price promotions are included. Ordinary discounts, free weekends, trials and demos are excluded.
- Free now: GOG lists the base game at zero regular and current price. A game can have optional purchases, require particular hardware or depend on other content; check its store page.
Automatic updates
The site checks public official store feeds through a free Cloudflare Pages function. Cached lists are eligible for refresh after 15 minutes when requested. An open page checks every 15 minutes. This refresh works without the site manager’s computer or chat remaining open; it is not a promise of continuous polling while nobody visits.
A dated snapshot keeps the site readable when a feed is blocked, rate-limited or unavailable. A failed source keeps its last good list and original check time. Delayed sources and old snapshots are labeled. Expired giveaway offers disappear from public lists using their end time and stay marked ended in a saved watchlist. A title missing from a later feed stays in your watchlist with its last known details.
The initial snapshot was checked Nov 14, 2026, 11:41 PM EST. Current machine-readable checks: live feed. Subscribe through the RSS feed.
Official sources
- Steam upcoming free search and Steam app details validate each base game’s free and coming-soon flags. The automatic shortlist checks up to 30 candidates from the nearest-release search; it is not every announced game.
- Epic Games Store free games and its public promotion feed supply free-to-keep offers, start and end times.
- GOG free games and its public catalogue supply currently free games. Demos, prologues, playtests, soundtracks and ordinary discounts are filtered out.
Dates, regions and coverage
The catalogue uses US store listings and English store metadata. Availability can vary by country. Epic offer timestamps are displayed in your browser’s local time zone. Steam release dates without a time are calendar dates, not exact launch times. A store may change a date or business model after a check.
This is a shortlist, not a complete index or a set of reviews. Inclusion does not mean we have played or recommend every game. Steam, Epic giveaways and GOG free titles are covered; console subscriptions, paid memberships, trials and unverified rumors are not.
Watchlist and calendar
Your watchlist is saved in this browser. Export JSON for a backup or an ICS calendar for games with exact dates. A downloaded calendar is a snapshot and does not automatically move when a store changes a date. TBA games are omitted from calendars. No account or email is required.