Claim the Free Games Every Week

A muse can claim the free games that game stores give away each week and add them to your library, on a standing schedule, so the freebies stop expiring unclaimed while you are busy.

What it does

Some game stores, the Epic Games Store being the best known, give away one or more full games every week. The catch is that you have to claim each one during its week, and most people forget until the offer is gone. A muse removes the forgetting. You connect your store account once and set a recurring task: every week, on the day the new free games land, the muse signs in, claims each free title, and adds it to your library for keeps. In one verified setup, the task recurs every Thursday afternoon, when the new games appear. After each run the muse reports what it claimed, so your library grows week by week.

How to use it

1. Connect the store account you want used: "Sign in to my Epic Games account. This is the account to claim games into."
2. Set the standing task: "Every Thursday afternoon, claim all the free games of the week and add them to my library."
3. Add the report: "After each run, tell me the names of the games you claimed and when the next ones land."
4. Review the weekly note when it arrives. If a claimed game is one you would never play, ignore it; claiming costs nothing.
5. If a week brings a game you actually want, download it from your library as normal. The muse claims; installing stays your call.

What you need

• A free account at the game store, with the login the muse can use
• The Muse app, and a weekly time slot that suits you
• A minute a week to read the claimed-games note

What to watch for

Sign-in checks happen. Stores sometimes throw up a verification step, a code sent to your email, or a puzzle check, and the muse may have to pause and ask you to clear it before it can claim. Do the check promptly, because the free window closes on a fixed day whether the games got claimed or not. Free lineups change without much notice; the value is in never missing the big weeks. Claiming is not downloading: the games wait in your library and take no space until you install them. Only claim into your own account, and make sure the muse is signed in to the right library before the weekly run.