After Steam has had a monopoly on digital games on PC, some rivals have finally appeared willing to stand up to the giant Valve. And one of the ones that has achieved it the most has been the Epic Games Store, the Epic Games digital game store, responsible for the Unreal Engine and owners of titles like Fortnite, among others. This store not only offers developers better conditions, but also allows users to save a lot of money, as long as we know, yes, that the program notifies us when there is a new offer or sale.
The Epic Store offers us many ways to expand our library of games for very little money. The first of them, and the best known, is with the free games that it gives away every week . These games, which can be better or worse, help us, little by little, to have a good list of titles in our account, games that we can start playing at any time.
In addition, this store usually has interesting sales periods in which we can get hold of all kinds of titles well below their original price. And not only that, but we can even have discount vouchers of 10 euros that allow us to lower the price of these games even more.
But how can we know when the games are on sale, or when there are new free games? We are going to see two tricks that will help us not to miss any offer.
Create your own “wish list” on Epic
Surely we are not interested in all the game sales in the store, since it does not matter to us that a game, which we do not plan to play, drops in price by a few euros. But we do want to be able to keep an eye on the games that we do care about so that we can know when one of these games has been downgraded. And this is where the “wish list” comes into play.
In this list we can save all the games that we want to follow closely so that, when one of them drops in price, the Epic Games Store sends us an email notifying us of said reduction. Then it depends on the sale, and on us, whether to buy it or wait for the next sale to see if it is bigger and allows us to save more money.
We can create this wish list from the web by simply logging in. Of course, if we want to find out about any discount on these games, we will have to make sure that notifications are activated in our account preferences. Thus, when the price drops, they will send us an email.
Turn on notifications in the Windows client
Another way to keep up to date with any sales, free games, or any other promotion is to have the Epic desktop client installed on your computer. Every time we open it, if there is any warning, it will show us an Epic Store banner, like the following one, which will notify us of the opportunity to get that game that is now on sale, or any free title, to add hours of fun in our library.
If we do not want to see these banners, we can disable them at any time from the program options.
