PC Games Radar for Epic Games,

Review by eFreeware

If you keep a PC game library and you hate paying full price for something that might be free next week, PC Games Radar is built for you. It gathers free offers from several stores in one place, so you can see what is available without opening each storefront in turn. It is aimed at players who want to catch giveaways while they last.

The pitch is simple: free copies of PC games appear and disappear quickly, and it is easy to miss them. This app watches the stores and tells you when something new shows up or when an offer is close to ending. For anyone who has ever realized a free-to-keep game was available last week and is gone now, that is a genuinely useful job to hand off.

It has been available since May 2020 and has passed a million installs, with a 3.3 average from more than four thousand ratings. That is a middling score rather than a glowing one, which tells me the app does a job people want but does not delight everyone who tries it. I would treat it as a utility to check rather than a service to rely on blindly.

What the app actually tracks

The core of the app is a list of offers, split into running, future and expired ones. That three-way split matters more than it first appears: seeing what is coming lets you plan, and seeing what has ended stops you from chasing a deal that closed yesterday. It is a small piece of structure that saves a lot of disappointment.

The stores it covers include Steam, Epic Games Store, GoG, Humble Bundle, Origin and Uplay, among others. Rather than checking each of those yourself, you get one feed. The app covers free-to-keep titles alongside time-limited offers.

That distinction between free-to-keep and time-limited access runs through the whole app. Some offers add a game to your library permanently; others let you play for a weekend or a week and then take it away. Knowing which is which before you spend an evening downloading a large title is the sort of thing this app is meant to settle quickly.

Filters that keep the list manageable

Once a feed like this grows, it becomes noise, and the filters are the answer to that. You can narrow the list by type, separating permanent offers such as giveaways and free-to-keep titles from limited ones like free weeks and free weekends. If you only care about games you get to keep, that switch does most of the work for you.

There is also a filter by store. If you already have a large Steam library and no interest in anywhere else, you can cut the list down to the storefront you actually use. Between the two filters, the app can be tuned to show a short, relevant list rather than everything happening across the PC market at once.

I would expect the store filter to be the one people lean on most, because store loyalty on PC is real and most players have one main launcher. The type filter is the more interesting one, though, since it encodes the distinction that makes free offers confusing in the first place.

Notifications and expiry reminders

Notifications are optional, and the app uses them for two jobs. The first is alerting you when a new offer begins, so you hear about a giveaway near its start rather than near its end. The second is a reminder when an offer is about to expire, which is the more valuable of the two if you claim things regularly.

The expiry reminder is what separates a useful tool from a bookmark you forget about. Giveaways are short by design, and a nudge before one closes is the difference between claiming a game and reading about it afterwards. Because both types of notification can be turned on or off, you can decide how much the app is allowed to interrupt you.

There is a dark mode as well, which is a small thing but a welcome one for an app you might open in the evening. The most recent update was in December 2024.

What it asks of you

The app is free to download and carries ads, and it also offers in-app purchases. For a free utility that aggregates store data, that combination is worth going in aware of, though it does not change what the app does. The content rating is Teen.

The bigger practical point is that the app is a radar, not a store. It tells you an offer exists; claiming it still means going to the relevant storefront and completing the process there. That is not a flaw, but it does mean the app saves you searching rather than saves you steps entirely.

The other thing to weigh is the breadth of the coverage. It watches a set of well-known PC stores, and the value you get depends on whether those are the stores you buy from. If your library lives somewhere outside that group, the list will feel thinner than it does for someone who shops across several of them.

Who it fits

This is for the player who already collects free titles and wants to do it more reliably. If you have claimed the occasional giveaway and enjoyed it, the app turns that from an accident into a routine. It suits people who check their library regularly and do not mind a short detour to a store page to finish the job.

It also fits anyone who keeps an eye on a handful of storefronts and finds the tab-switching tedious. The filter by store and the split between permanent and limited offers mean you can build a view that matches how you actually shop, rather than wading through everything.

Where it is less compelling is for players who buy most of their games at full price on a single store and rarely claim giveaways. The app is narrow by design, and its whole value rests on you caring about free offers in the first place. That is a reasonable thing to build an app around, but it does define the audience fairly tightly.

A tracker worth keeping for giveaway hunters

PC Games Radar does one job and does it in a way I can follow: it watches a set of PC stores, lists current, upcoming and past offers, lets you filter them, and optionally tells you when something starts or is about to end. The free-to-keep versus limited-time distinction is handled clearly, and that is the part most likely to save you from a wasted download.

It is ad-supported with in-app purchases, and it covers a specific set of stores. The 3.3 rating suggests a mixed reception, so I would go in expecting a straightforward tool rather than a polished service.

If you claim free PC games more than occasionally, this is a sensible app to keep installed and let sit quietly until a notification arrives. If giveaways are not part of how you buy games, the app has little to offer you, and that is fine. For the audience it is built for, it covers the ground well.

What's new in version 3.1.2

Small bug fixes in the UI to have a more improved experience!