Scroll-through of Heroic games library recorded with OBS Studio on 2026-07-15.
I think this video shows all of my games collected via Epic Games promos, from around 2020 to present. I didn't bother with the promos for last week. The faded title-cards indicate the game is currently 'hidden'. Heroic has some features for organizing games, but Playnite might be better for that. I have not tried Launchbox yet, not sure if it's just for DOS games or works as a manager for more recent games too.
My main considerations when deciding whether to 'purchase' a $0 promo license for a game are:
whether the game looks fun (promotional material, gossip websites, playthrough videos)what type of DRM it has (does it require additional software to play, will it still be playable in 5 years, is it a single player game that requires internet, do the companies involved exploit my metadata, etc.)?can the game run on either my current system or specs that I can reasonably expect to afford in the future?artistic merit and inspiration for my own dabblings into gamedev*note: I have a bunch of these games backed up onto a hard drive. I currently have a 4-tier system of classifying DRM for $0 promo games via EG. "A-tier" includes titles like Into The Breach, playable directly from the file. "D-tier" includes titles lke GTA or Star Wars Squadrons - fun games, but they require 2 additonal launchers + heavy anticheat, which can strain system resources, and adds friction to starting/ending the game.