Slime Rancher is free right now on the Epic Games Store Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Slime Rancher is free right now on the Epic Games Store And Oxenfree is up next. News by Matt Wales Reporter Updated on 7 Mar 2019 14 comments If you're on PC and in the mood for a freebie, Epic has revealed the next two games to be made available for nowt on its store: Slime Rancher and Oxenfree. Up first is Slime Rancher, available now until March 21st. If you've not yet had the pleasure, Slime Rancher an exceptionally odd, yet oddly engrossing, experience that plays out something like an extremely chilled first-person farming game. Except, your farm is on a distant alien planet, and the bulk of your responsibilities involve breeding (and cross-breeding!) strange gelatinous goo balls known as Slimes. There are plenty of regular farm-like things to do, including growing crops to feed to your Slimes and earning cash to expand your facilities in order to accomodate more breeds, but a significant part of the adventure involves exploring the colourful wilds outside your ranch. Here, you can accrue valuable resources, hunt down treasure, and hoover up (literally - most of Slime Rancher's interactions involve your wonderfully tactile vacuum nozzle thingy) exotic new breeds of Slime to rehouse back at the farm. As for Epic's second free game of March, it's developer Night School Studio's excellent walkie-and-talkie narrative adventure, Oxenfree. Oxenfree is a kind of part-teen-movie, part-supernatural-thriller that follows the adventures of a group of friends as they attempt to party the weekend away on an isolated island - an off-season tourist resort - but start to experience increasingly strange phenomenon. It's hardly action-packed stuff - mostly you'll spend your time walking between key locations on the island - but it tells a gripping yarn, and its likeable cast are pleasingly well-defined. That's in large part thanks to the breezy, wonderfully written dialogue, which is near-constant, impeccably voiced, and flows surprisingly naturally, even as you make choices to steer the direction of each conversation throughout the experience. As an added bonus, Oxenfree does some nifty things with its new-game-plus-ish second play-through option too. Oxenfree, if you're at all intrigued (and haven't picked it up already, given how often the game has been heavily discounted or given away by this point), is free on the Epic Games Store from Thursday, March 21st to Thursday, April 4th. Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More News Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 61 Modder dives into Demon's Souls files following PS5 jailbreak, discovers fabled Ring of the Chieftain Who knows what's nexus? 5 Google announces cloud gaming Chromebooks less than a fortnight after Stadia shutdown GeForce Now preinstalled. 11 Latest Articles Digital Foundry Sennheiser's legendary HD 599 open-back headphones are just £70 at Amazon in the Prime Early Access Sale Comfortable with neutral sound and a wide sound stage. Preview Football Manager's new Console edition is the best you'll get without a PC Getting Touch-right. 1 Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 61 Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store