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Epic Games Store: New free games are now being given away worth $70, but only for a short time

Epic Games' latest giveaway is worth almost $70. (Image source: Epic Games Store)
Epic Games' latest giveaway is worth almost $70. (Image source: Epic Games Store)
The Epic Games Store has updated its free game offering with two new titles. Worth a combined total of nearly $70, Garden Story and World War Z Aftermath arrive as the storefront's penultimate giveaways in February for Windows.

Epic Games Store has refreshed its PC game giveaway program with two new games. To recap, the storefront has been offering F1 Manager 2024 for free throughout this week, having discounted Beyond Blue and Humankind a week earlier.

This time, it is the turn of Garden Story and World War Z Aftermath, which typically sell for $19.99 and $39.99, respectively. Please note that today's giveaways are only for the pair's Windows releases; both games have received console ports to Xbox and the Nintendo Switch (curr. $279 on Amazon). Also, the two games carry the following recommended system requirements:

Garden Story World War Z Aftermath
Operating System Windows Vista or newer Windows 10
Processor 2 GHz (type undisclosed) AMD Ryzen 5 2400G or Intel Core i7-3970
RAM 2 GB 16 GB
Storage 100 MB 45 GB
GPU 256 MB VRAM (type undisclosed) AMD Radeon R9 280 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 960
DirectX DirectX 10 DirectX 11

Both games score highly on Metacritic too, with averages of 70/100 and 80/100 for Garden Story and World War Z Aftermath, respectively. Garden Story and World War Z Aftermath will be available to add to your Epic Games library from 16:00 UTC today until 15:59 UTC on February 27. Please see the Garden Story and World War Z Aftermath store listings for more redemption details.

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Alex Alderson, 2025-02-20 (Update: 2025-05- 5)