Prime Gaming: Six “free games” in August with Starcraft Remastered

After Amazon recently gave away 30 free games, including Mass Effect Legendary, GRID Legends and NfS Heat, to Prime subscribers as part of Prime Day, six new titles have now been announced for August.

Six new “free titles” in August

As usual, the prerequisite for Prime Gaming is an Amazon Prime subscription, which will be up to 30 percent more expensive from mid-September depending on the payment method. Even if Amazon also distributes in-game content for well-known games such as New World, Read Dead Online or TESO via Prime Gaming, it is the free full versions that are likely to be the most popular and are distributed via the Amazon Games App. According to its own statements, Amazon offered over 100 games via Prime Gaming in 2021, in 2022 it has already been 75. 80 million free games were redeemed last year, compared to 785 million at Epic Games. From Monday, i.e. on August 1st, the current free offer will change and six new ones will come into play.

The headliner for August should be Starcraft Remastered. The revamp of the 1998 classic was released as an esports remaster in 2017, offering higher resolutions, improved graphics and sound effects, as well as leaderboards and a new matchmaking system. Gameplay remained largely the same as in the original game. As usual, players choose between Terran, Protoss and Zerg.

The second well-known title is Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders. The classic point-and-click adventure by Lucasarts is based on the SCUMM engine and has been available again on GoG since 2015. Players travel back to 1997 and cooperate with Zak in a world where aliens have built a dumbing-down machine that sucks people’s IQs out until only single digits remain. The other four free games include Beasts of Maravilla Island, Recompile, ScourgeBringer and Family Mysteries: Poisonous Promises.