Epic Games Store free games: Nova Lands and Tattoo Tycoon

Two more freebies just landed on the Epic Games Store, and this pair is weirdly perfect for a lazy summer week. From today, July 9, you can grab Nova Lands and Tattoo Tycoon for nothing, no catch, no subscription. Add them to your library before the timer runs out and they're yours to keep forever, even if you never touch them again.

The claim window closes on July 16 at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST. That's a full week, so no need to panic, but you know how it goes... you tell yourself you'll do it later and then the offer's gone. Just click the button now.

What you're actually getting

Nova Lands is the meatier of the two. It's a factory builder crossed with a bit of exploration, the kind of game where you land on a chain of islands, start hauling resources, and slowly automate the whole thing until your little robots do all the work while you plan the next expansion. If you've ever lost a weekend to Factorio or Satisfactory and want something lighter and more colorful, this scratches that same itch. Normally it runs about $19.99.

Tattoo Tycoon is the goofier pick, and honestly the one that surprised us. You take over the last surviving tattoo shop in a town called Tattuga Bay and rebuild the whole scene from scratch, matching designs to each customer's personality and expanding across new districts as the cash rolls in. It's a management sim with a genuinely fun theme, and at its usual $29.99 it's the pricier half of this giveaway. Free is a very good price for it.

Add it up and you're looking at about $49.98 of games for the cost of two clicks. Not bad at all.

What happened to last week's games?

If you missed them, River City Girls 2 and the gloriously bleak point-and-click I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream just rotated off the store, so those two are gone now. That's the thing with Epic's weekly rota: blink and you miss a good one. Which is exactly why we round these up every single week.

So, are you claiming both or just the one? And be honest, how many free Epic games are sitting unplayed in your library right now? Drop it in the comments.