October 16th free games roundup

Four PC games are free to claim and keep permanently across Amazon Prime Gaming and the Epic Games Store. Following Amazon's October 6 lineup announcement, two mid-month drops went live yesterday alongside Epic's weekly storefront refresh.

Amazon Prime Gaming

1. Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong

Developed by Big Bad Wolf and published by Nacon in 2022, Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong is a narrative RPG set in the World of Darkness universe where you control three vampires investigating a conspiracy inside the Boston Camarilla. Instead of action combat, the game relies on dialogue confrontations, detective work, and stat sheets to untangle who attacked the sect, and I'm curious how well those tabletop-style skill checks hold up when a single bad conversation can derail an investigation. Amazon Prime members can claim an Epic Games Store copy through Amazon Luna until November 18, 2026.

2. Caravan SandWitch

Caravan SandWitch is a 2024 narrative exploration adventure from Studio Plane Toast and Dear Villagers about driving a customizable van across a sci-fi world inspired by Provence to track down your missing sister. There's no combat, no fall damage, and no timer pushing you forward, which makes it a relaxing counterweight to the heavier games in this week's rotation. It's free for Prime subscribers to claim on Amazon Luna through December 16, 2026.

Epic Games Store

3. Agent A: A puzzle in disguise

Australian studio Yak & Co built Agent A: A puzzle in disguise as a 1960s spy caper packed with retro-futuristic gadgets, secret compartments, and 35 rooms of point-and-click logic puzzles. You're infiltrating the mid-century modern lair of rival operative Ruby La Rouge across 100 inventory puzzles, and the brisk escape-room pacing makes it easy to finish over a weekend. The game is 100% free to keep on the Epic Games Store (and via the Epic Games mobile app on Android and iOS) until October 22, 2026, at 11:00 AM EDT.

4. Bad Cheese

Solo developer Simon Lukasik and publisher Feardemic use 1920s rubber-hose cartoon animation for Bad Cheese, a first-person psychological horror game where a young mouse tries to survive a weekend at home with a volatile father. You spend your time scrubbing floors, cooking fries, and hunting spiders to keep the peace while the black-and-white Steamboat Willie aesthetic twists into something deeply unsettling. You can grab it for free on the Epic Games Store before the giveaway ends on October 22, 2026, at 11:00 AM EDT.

All four offers are time-limited, with Epic's pair expiring first next Thursday morning, so make sure to add them to your accounts before the claim windows close.

Pick up Caravan SandWitch on Humble Bundle.

Pick up Agent A: A puzzle in disguise on Humble Bundle.

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