A few big hitters and indie curiosities to check out with your Prime membership in January 2022
Amazon Prime members have nine more free-with-their-subscription PC games to claim this month, as Prime Gaming isgiving out titleslikeJedi: Fallen Order,Total War: Warhammer, and even the peculiar ecosystem gamePaperBeastthroughout January.
Here’s the list of free-to-keep games, which will be claimable until Jul 10, 2025.
There was a lot of interest in Prime Gaming’sDecember 2021freebies, which included highlights likeFrostpunkandJourney to the Savage Planet. Overall, the January lineup is about the same quality level, or maybe even higher depending on the gaps in your backlog.
I was just thinking about when the potential (but surely inevitable) sequel toJedi: FallenOrdermight reveal itself. Funny enough, we kind of had a fakeout moment recently — at least I did. I can’t be the only one who saw theflashy CGI trailerforStar Wars Eclipseonly to slowly realize it wasn’t anotherFallen Orderand, in fact, it was a (oh boy…) Quantic Dream production. I haven’t felt that much whiplash at a live news event in a long time.
[In Other Waters]
But I’m getting away from the point here —Jedi:Fallen Orderis worth playing, especially for free, and that’s not always a guarantee in the realm of modernStar Warsvideo games. I’d also encourage everyone to look intoIn Other Waters(a very artistic game set in an alien ocean),Two Point Hospital(if you have a soft spot forTheme Hospital), and alsoPaper Beast(VR is optional!) andTotal War: Warhammerif either of them speaks to you.
I mean, really, just claim everything. But think about actually playing those games.
(Do note that you’ll need to use Origin and the Epic Games Store to access a few of these free PC titles, though the rest are a bit simpler to set up and start playing.)
As far as extras, Prime Gaming is giving out the usual assorted range of in-game content, including the Protector Bundle inFall Guys, the Rose Gold Bundle inApex Legends, the Prime Gaming Reward Bundle inBattlefield 2042, the Queenbreaker Exotic Bundle Drop inDestiny 2, and a free Epic Wildcard inLegends of Runeterra, among other trinkets.
It’s wild to consider how muchstuffis floating around for any given game these days.
