Four Months After Its "Re-Launch", MOBA/Hero-Shooter Gigantic Is Free To Claim On Epic Games This Week

All of us were very surprised back in February to hear that Gigantic, the MOBA/hero-shooter that had a previous life (lives?) as a F2P title, would be making a comeback via Abstraction Games and ARC Games. This time around, the title would opt for a box price that would include all heroes at launch and beyond. That included the new heroes and maps that the team added since the previous version of the MOBA closed.

At the time, all of us here at MMOBomb wondered how the game would be profitable in the long-term. One box fee and no microtransactions is great, and maybe you can sell some DLC down the road, but your game has to hit a bigger player base to make that work. While we don't have numbers on all platforms, the numbers on Steam are, frankly, terrible. There are less than 30 players on Steam as of the moment of this writing.

In what is probably an effort to gain a bit of traction, Gigantic is free to claim and own forever on Epic Games as part of the platform's weekly free offerings. Gaining players is nice, but now the team is forgoing the box fee on that platform and, with no DLC announced yet, there's no way for these new players to gain the game some revenue. It's a weird situation and I'm concerned for Gigantic's future...but hey, claim the game for free if the box price was stopping you from trying out the relaunch.

The other free game offered on Epic Games this week is the single-player horror title, The Callisto Protocol.