Free Civilization VI Permanent at Epic Games Store

After freeing Grand Theft Auto V for free for one week, it seems Epic Games won't stop giving big games during the discount season. On this occasion, the developers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine will share the brand-new strategy game from Firaxis - Civilization VI.

For giveaway claims, all you need to do is visit the Epic Games Store page, want it from the browser or directly from the EGS program, then giveaway claims. After you claim, the game will enter the library and without having to be downloaded you can access it forever.

Because of the new rules implemented by Epic Games, you may be required to activate Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) first. The process can be carried out on the following page and choose one of the 3 authenticaton options that are required.

According to rumors, the next Thursday giveaway is the Borderlands Handsome Collection which is a collection containing Borderlands, Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-sequel. This has not been confirmed yet, but with Civilization 6 right to be a giveaway after GTA V, we will see whether or not it will be next week.

Civilization VI also comes with various factions in the form of a country or kingdom that can be chosen. Each country and kingdom has one leader, except for Greece, which is present with two leaders and you can choose one of them.

Every leader in Civilization VI comes with special abilities and advantages. In addition, each country or kingdom also has a special unit that can be used to block other factions in the game. These advantages must be learned by players to win this game.

Japan for example, which has a unique building called Electronic Factory that can add Production and Science points as well. In addition, Japan also has a special unit that is Samurai who will not get a penalty even though he was fighting in a dying condition.

Meanwhile, Russia has a special advantage in the form of having city boundaries that are twice as large as other factions. This makes Russia expand faster than other factions. In addition, Russia also has a special unit called Cossacks that can be used to dominate territory at the beginning of the game.

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After trying out several factions, until now I still like using Russia. Under the leadership of Tsar Peter Alexeyevich, Russia was an easy faction to use. The thing that I like the most about Russia is the vast border area of each city. Thus, I can quickly master the surrounding resources without having to wait for border expansion or having to buy the area using Gold points.

History of Epic Games

Epic Games, Inc. is a software and video game development company based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' village in Potomac, Maryland.

The name Epic Games is on the rise thanks to making one of the most popular games in the world, Fortnite. In 2018, Techcruch Epic Games managed to score a profit of USD 3 billion. The popularity of this game has also made the company value reach $ 15 billion

Epic Games now has the status of decacorn, which is a startup that has a valuation above USD 10 billion.

Fortnite is a freemium game or free to play but certain items must be paid for. This game has popularized the battle royale category together with the Unknown Battle Ground (PUBG) Player.

Founded in 1991, initially this startup did not gain success. But as users grow and people's interest in playing games, their business continues to grow.

The first broad investor Epic Games was a Tencent company that injected funds of USD 330 million in return for 40% share ownership.

At that time, Epic Games was still famous for Unreal Engine, a third-party development platform. Unreal has given birth to best-selling games like Gears of War.

In December 2018 also, Epic Games launched the Epic Games Store which not only offers a variety of games made by Epic. But also some games from third-party developers.

When released, Epic Games Store immediately attracted the interest of many gamers and created a fairly competitive competition with Valve's game store, Steam.

The presence of Epic Games Store is not only beneficial for gamers because there are many free games every two weeks, but also provides more benefits for developers who release their homemade games on the Epic Games Store.

It is said that Epic only takes 12 percent of the revenue of various games released on the Epic Games Store. This figure is much lower than Steam which is at 30 percent.