Viking Rise Gift Pack Key Giveaway:

https://www.mmobomb.com/giveaway/viking-rise-keys

Ampersat is free on Steam until July 6th, 2025, 5 PM UTC.

Epic Games:

Backpack Hero - Link
A mouse is food...I mean the hero of this roguelike game.
The unique aspect of this game is that your backpack affects your strength.
To be exact, how you order your items in your backpack can affect your character's attributes.
Before charging into a group of enemies, you want more attack points?
What about fighting a boss and you want to move swiftly to dodge their attacks?
Adapt to whatever situation you face by strategically managing your inventory.
Reviews say this game has high replay value.
I don't understand what that means.
A mouse only has one life.
And it's spending the rest of it in my tummy.

Features single player only!

Brief description from the storepage:
Backpack Hero is a twist on your standard deck-building roguelike. It isn't just about what you carry, but how you organize the items within your bag! Their placement has a huge impact on their performance. Find them the right spot in your backpack to increase their power! Explore ancient dungeons, caves, swamps, and more! Meet colorful friends and fight deadly foes! Don't get lost!

Figment - Link

This is a repeat from December 26, 2020 and has been repeated numerous times on other platforms

This is a beautifully hand drawn action and adventure musical game.
You enter the human mind and progress by solving puzzles.
As a watching cat, I can understand how depressing life can be for humans.
This game paints an abstract representation of conquering a depressing phase in life.
Join Dusty and his optimistic friend in their symbolic journey through the human mind.
Lovely musical pieces are played in your journey in contrast to a nocturnal thunderstorm in the background.
Survive the journey by using your strength and wisdom to beat down nightmares with Dusty.
But it is a casual humorous game and is not as tense as Backpack Hero.
And you can enjoy the tunes of classical music as you defeat symbolic monsters!

Features single player only!

Brief description from the storepage:
Figment is an action-adventure game that invites you to explore a unique surreal universe filled with music, humor and multi layered narrative.

Other ongoing giveaways:
nothing at the moment

Epic Games Mobile
Figment - Bring the surreal universe with you wherever you go!
Google
Apple

Next time: Sky Racket and Figment 2

https://store.steampowered.com/app/582660/Black_Desert/

What VPN is required to make this available? I tried Opera Browser Vpn previously, none of the available locations seem to work :|
edit: Maybe one of these may work with Opera VPN? https://steamdb.info/upcoming/free/
edit2: Actually scratch that, seems like all links above are actually linking to the same page multiple times? o.O

No worries, Black Desert is not a giveaway. It is a free-2-play MMORPG.

I know, But it gets F2P every now and then, while usually has a price, and I was never able to get it due to it "not being avaiable" on my region.
I think most (if not all) of similar titles did became claimable with VPN or Proxy,
but even if I get Black Desert to show its page through VPN - when I login to actually add it, it brings back the "not available"

If an on-line game isn't available in a certain region, I'm thinking you wouldn't be able to play it anyway, even if you could claim it... Unless you'd also play through that VPN at all times, which you probably don't want because of lag.

Why do we always have this conversation here? If it's not given away in your region, it's not, even in the case of the reason being that the distributor is a d**k. Mentioning region blocks surely is informative to a lot of us - but redeeming it by breaking the region restrictions is questionable and if you choose to look for a way to do that, this is probably the worst place talk about it.
The game is distributed weirdly around the globe but here in Europe it is on a giveaway, not of the whole thing, though, while in other places it is any of F2P, freemium, whatever. Steam (and possibly other platforms) registers your region during account creation and region (b)lock works in these combinations: you can't play it there/elsewhere and/or you cannot register it there/elsewhere. In this case, simple googling shows that Israel is blocked on Steam 99 percent of the time, registering and playing even for accounts from elsewhere, while console version has another publisher that makes it available there (probably the one responsible for instituting the block so as not to lose revenue).

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Purrfect! After installation, Backpack Hero and Figment are both DRM-free!
The game can run without the client active and no workaround needed.
Launch the exe file directly without resource hogging DRMs!

Two top games that are DRM-free, what is there not to like? Meowtastic!

- Your giveaway side-paww

New entry on IndieGala, HOTEL GREENWOOD

Epic Games:

Sky Racket - Link
Arcade fans, you are in for a treat today.
This indie game is an arcade mix of shoot'em up and block breaker all in one!
Interface reminds me of classic megaman.
Presented in a side scroller format, you use a racket to hit projectiles.
Bullets incoming!
Get your rackets ready for some epic block breaking!

Features single player and co-op mode!

Brief description from the storepage:
Sky Racket is a game that mixes two classic genres from the arcade era, Shoot’em up and Block Breaker. In a world where you are unable to attack, using your racket and positioning to return bullets is your only option!


Figment 2 - Link
This is a beautifully hand drawn action and adventure musical game.
You enter the human mind and progress by solving puzzles.
This game paints an abstract representation of conquering a depressing phase in life.
Join Dusty and his optimistic friend in their symbolic journey through the human mind.
The nightmare continues as you solve puzzles and gain victory over musical boss fights!

Features single player only!

Brief description from the storepage:
Piano bridges, dancing plants and musical showdowns, ready to dive into The Mind?
Nightmares have shattered the Moral Compass, making The Mind unable to function properly. Dusty and his ever-optimistic sidekick, Piper, must travel to Creed Valley, where The Mind’s ideals are formed to restore peace. A journey filled with musical showdowns and mind-bending puzzles awaits.


Other ongoing giveaways:
nothing at the moment

Epic Games Mobile
Figment 2 - Bring the musical nightmare with you wherever you go!
Google
Apple

Next time: Civilization 6 Platinum Edition! Wow!

Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, Fantasy General II and Field of Glory II: Medieval are free to claim on Steam for a week.

It does say there is co-op on the game page (though only in a review) so not entirely single player only.
Epic should get Co-Op tag available or adding Local Multiplayer tag instead... or both like on this game

Caribbean Crashers free for a limited time on Steam.