Epic teases ‘mystery game’ being given away for free next week

Each week, the Epic Games Store offers a title or two for free to all those with an EGS account. In anticipation of the upcoming Game Awards, Epic is teasing that next week’s offering will be a pretty big deal, telling users to “tune in Dec 11” to unwrap their present.

Typically, Epic Games will freely announce the following week’s promotional titles once this week’s games have been made available to claim. That said, on special occasions (often near the end of the year), the storefront will instead keep their future titles hidden to make for a welcome surprise.

Such is the case for next week’s offering, with the only potential hint at what the title might be being its purple and green-themed wrapping ‘paper’ with various Christmas-themed icons – and a PC mouse – being printed on the picture (though this could be little more than a generic image.)

While we will simply have to wait to find out what is being offered, EGS members can stay occupied with this week’s offerings:

• The Darkside Detective
• The Jackbox Party Pack 4

Available on both mobile and PC, The Darkside Detective is a comedy-focused pixel art adventure game which “sees Detective McQueen and his sidekick, Officer Patrick Dooley, investigating cases plaguing Twin Lakes and its colorful citizens.”

Jackbox Party Pack 4 meanwhile offers a collection of fun mini games which you can play with friends or family – perfect for the upcoming holidays.

As always, you have until next Thursday, the 11th of December at 4pm to claim these titles, at which point they will be replaced by Epic’s ‘Mystery Game’ offering.

KitGuru says: What do you think next week’s free game will be? What do you hope it will be? What’s your favourite mini game across all of Jackbox’s titles? Let us know down below.

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