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Amazon Prime subscribers can pick up a classic RPG game for free this month

Planescape Torment and Star Wars: Rogue Squadron are up for grabs

Callum Bains
Apr 27, 2023
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Amazon Prime subscribers can pick up a classic RPG game for free this month

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Amazon has revealed the next batch of games that Prime subscribers can pick up for free this month.

Leading the pack is Planescape Torment: Enhanced Edition, the 2017 HD re-release of Black Isle Studio’s beloved CRPG. Baldur’s Gate often gets credited for ushering in the world of RPGs genre as we know it, but Planescape: Torment set the standard for story-driven roleplaying and elegant writing that ranged from the horrifying to the fantastical to the hilarious.

➡️ The Shortcut Skinny: Amazon Prime Gaming

  • 🙌 The next batch of Amazon Prime games is here

  • ⚔ Classic RPG Planescape Torment is up for grabs

  • 🚀 As is the arcade flight simulator Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D

  • 🤩 Prime members can claim and keep them forever for free

It’s joined by Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D, an arcade spaceship simulator from back in 1998. It doesn’t compare to Motive’s spiritual successor Star Wars: Squadrons from a few years ago, but if you missed picking that gem up for free last year, Rogue Squadron is still able to hold its own surprisingly well for a 25-year-old game.

Outside of those heavyweights, there are a bunch more smaller titles. Check out every game that’ll be hitting Prime Gaming this month below:

May 4

  • Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D

  • Super Sidekicks

  • Samurai Shodown

May 11

  • Planescape: Torment – Enhanced Edition

  • Lake

  • Robo Army

  • Last Resort

May 18

  • Kardboard Kings

  • The Almost Gone

  • Count Bout

  • Alpha Mission 2

May 25

  • Lila’s Sky Ark

  • Agatha Knife

  • King of the Monsters 2

  • Kizuna Encounter

As usual, all the games are free to claim if you’re an Amazon Prime subscriber and can be kept forever, even after your membership ends.

It’s not been a bad few months for Prime members. Amazon gave away a fantastic horror game at the start of the year and before that handed out Total War: Warhammer 2 and Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, and classic RPG Fallout: New Vegas. They’re older titles, of course, but essential additions to any gaming library.

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