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PC Digital Downloads: Ark: Survival Evolved & Gloomhaven Expired

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Epic Games is offering the following PC Digital Downloads for Free.

Thanks to community member Lupush for sharing this dealAbout Ark: Survival Evolved:
  • Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
About Gloomhaven:
  • Whether you are drawn to Gloomhaven by the call of adventure or by an avid desire for gold glimmering in the dark, your fate will surely be the same. Gloomhaven, the digital adaptation of the acclaimed board game, mixes Tactical-RPG and dungeon-crawling.
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Gloomhaven for PC is legit. All the fun (and frustration) of the board game without the management of all the pieces. Expansion of Jaws of the Lion is available for it as well.
ARK is a repeat and requires 60GB of storage. Where are the 4TB SSD deals?
Looking forward to Gloomhaven though.
Yeah, these posts normally draw a lot of annoyed responses from people saying to wait until it's actually free to make the post, but I am absolutely thankful to OP because I was thinking about buying Gloomhaven this week.

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Aedin123
09-22-2022 at 02:13 PM.
09-22-2022 at 02:13 PM.
Ark is my all time favorite game. If you actually play the storyline (takes effort on your part as it is NOT spoon fed AT ALL) then you will be in love. Gloomhaven looks like a fun treat as well! Thanks OP!
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09-22-2022 at 03:37 PM.
09-22-2022 at 03:37 PM.
Quote from johnny88 :
You can. But a few things to consider.

1. Steam deck is portable. You throw in a extreral hard drive its no longer really portable

2. Even if you plug it in, it needs to be in ex4 format (linux) for it to work

3. It'll drain the battery faster as the battery needs to power the external hard drive

In essence if it can't fit on the deck, it's not a good idea.

You can however try to do a NAS setup. But that in itself can be very very expensive and limited to only be used while you're home.

They weren't asking about the deck...
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09-22-2022 at 03:39 PM.
09-22-2022 at 03:39 PM.
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Super duper easy. I use Alfae
Do you have a link? Google wasn't helpful.
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09-22-2022 at 04:18 PM.
09-22-2022 at 04:18 PM.
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People game on Macs?!
I game on a PC, but I have non-gamer friends who would play this with me and they gave Macs.
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09-22-2022 at 04:28 PM.
09-22-2022 at 04:28 PM.
Quote from shouthouse :
Super duper easy. I use Alfae

Wut???
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StoHouse
09-22-2022 at 04:48 PM.

Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank StoHouse

09-22-2022 at 04:48 PM.
Cool to see this on here. I honestly think Ark is the most underrated game in a decade (and it's pretty popular already).

I love it. I'm a grown adult, busy life, and sometimes I get bothered that no video game gave me that "spark" like when I was younger and loved them. This was the first game to give me that spark in a loooong time, like catch myself thinking about the game wanting to play lol.

Here's the thing, yes it has a big multiplayer community, but I 100% like the single player aspect, just click the local/host thing, pick a map (start on The Island probably) and spawn and good luck! There's no real story/cut scenes to it, you're just into this world and have to figure your way to survival. It's so insanely complex.

It's basically Minecraft but with dinosaurs and modern graphics. You can get so incredibly complex, you could dump in 100 hours and still have so much more to go, they did a good job making it a good progress rate but allowing you to build so much.

I honestly wish I could restart this game, totally forget all I know, and experience the first few nights of the game again. Terrifying, scrambling to figure out how to get food, make a basic shelter, avoid dinosaurs, dying 20x before you finally think you can survive a tiny bit.


Anyway, 1000000000% recommended. Play single player.


Edit: if you get to playing, learn the hotkeys like how to transfer a full stack of things to an inventory, how to transfer one with one button, just google Ark shortcut keys, makes life on the game way better.
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09-22-2022 at 04:49 PM.
09-22-2022 at 04:49 PM.
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Wut???

Looks like you have some searching and reading to do. Have fun.
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09-22-2022 at 05:38 PM.
09-22-2022 at 05:38 PM.
Any Spyware or backdoor issues in epic launcher software? Expert opinions...
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davelikesdeals2
09-22-2022 at 05:54 PM.
09-22-2022 at 05:54 PM.
ARK is a very small game, especially with all of the DLC maps. Tiny! You only need 500TB of storage!
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Macharelo
09-22-2022 at 06:48 PM.
09-22-2022 at 06:48 PM.
I know ARK is a repeat, but all 6 of the DLC (separately) are also free, not sure if they were also free last time.
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09-22-2022 at 11:04 PM.
09-22-2022 at 11:04 PM.
Quote from NeatArm8825 :
Yeah, these posts normally draw a lot of annoyed responses from people saying to wait until it's actually free to make the post, but I am absolutely thankful to OP because I was thinking about buying Gloomhaven this week.
That's what happened with me recently, with Spirit of the North...

Been on my Steam wishlist for a while, and was finally gonna pull the trigger on it when I see it's available free on Epic.
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09-22-2022 at 11:12 PM.
09-22-2022 at 11:12 PM.
Quote from VatoCool :
ARK is a repeat and requires 60GB of storage. Where are the 4TB SSD deals?
Looking forward to Gloomhaven though.
Ark is reasonably compressible
https://github.com/IridiumIO/Comp...lts:-Games

Save a good half.
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09-23-2022 at 04:49 AM.
09-23-2022 at 04:49 AM.
I've been wanting Gloomhaven for some time, glad to see this pop up! I have Jaws of the Lion on my game shelf but setup is a major commitment, this just makes it so much more accessible.
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09-23-2022 at 06:25 AM.
09-23-2022 at 06:25 AM.
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Does anyone know if/how you can make this work on Steam Deck? Thanks!
Install Windows on Steam Deck as dual boot.
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Gavica
09-23-2022 at 07:28 AM.
09-23-2022 at 07:28 AM.
If you enjoy open world surival like Ark, make sure to try Subnautica and No Mans Sky, I find them even more enjoyable.
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