After an unusual delay, the Epic Games Store formally announces its January 15 free games, while offering another beloved freebie in the meantime.
Styx: Master of Shadows and its sequel are the Epic Games Store’s free games for January 15, officially announced as part of the platform’s latest giveaway rotation, which was confirmed significantly later than usual. The stealth duology will mark the fifth and sixth titles offered free to Epic Games Store users in 2025.
Epic’s most recently concluded free game promotion saw it give away the ancient China-set RTS Total War: Three Kingdoms and the futuristic PvPvE shooter Wildgate from January 1 through 8. Boasting a combined retail value of nearly $90, the two titles marked the company’s first week-long giveaway of 2026, concluding a two-week stretch of daily rotating free games that began with Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel and ended with Trine Classic Collection on December 18 and 31, respectively.
After Unusual Delay, Epic Games Store Confirms January 15–22 Giveaway Details
After Epic’s latest giveaway came to an end on January 8, something unusual took place: it wasn’t automatically replaced by another freebie. While this wasn’t the first time that the company failed to launch a new freebie exactly at 11am ET on a Thursday, today was one of the longest unexpected delays since the weekly free game promotions were introduced in late 2018.
