Hogwarts Legacy goes free for the primary time to kick off the Epic Video games Retailer’s 2025 Vacation Sale

The Epic Video games Retailer’s Vacation Sale is now underway—it truly began on December 11 however we had been a bit of busy with different issues you could have heard of—and meaning, except for offers, a complete bunch of recent free video games to select up. First on the block is a really large one certainly: The hit Harry Potter sim Hogwarts Legacy, which is yours for retains for those who declare it earlier than December 18.

Hogwarts Legacy is the proverbial problematic fave: As PC Gamer’s Tyler Wilde specified by 2023, there was fairly a little bit of controversy when the sport first launched over whether or not or not it was okay to play it, due to the notoriously anti-trans politics of creator JK Rowling. Rowling wasn’t concerned with the event of Hogwarts Legacy however she does revenue from it, and a few portion of her cash goes to help anti-trans organizations.

However Harry Potter stays a lot beloved, and Hogwarts Legacy was and nonetheless is successful: Practically three years after it launched, there are at present greater than 18,000 individuals enjoying the sport on Steam alone. Unsurprisingly on condition that reality, the worth stays pegged on the authentic $60.

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That makes Epic’s giveaway—the primary time Hogwarts Legacy has gone on the freebie block—a really enticing provide for anybody who hasn’t performed it but and nonetheless needs to.

Hogwarts Legacy is the primary of Epic’s annual Vacation Sale, which incorporates reductions, 20% again on purchases that you should utilize on different purchases, and eventually, gifting. That is proper, seven years after the Epic Video games Retailer launched and 18 years after Steam figured it out, now you can purchase video games on Epic and provides them as items to your pals.

As common, the free sport scenario will speed up dramatically as soon as the Hogwarts giveaway is over. Epic says 17 video games will likely be given away in complete over the course of the sale—so, 16 extra after this one—which is not fairly one every single day, nevertheless it’s shut sufficient that you will in all probability need to test in on the common. “Epic Extras,” together with beauty packs, in-game forex, XP enhance, and different stuff from a wide range of totally different video games can even be thrown out like sweet on the Santa Claus Parade over the course of the sale.

So, to recap: Epic’s Hogwarts Legacy giveaway is up till December 18, and the Epic Video games Retailer Vacation Sale—with loads of different free video games on the way in which that do not help odious causes—runs till January 8, 2026.