Alien: Isolation will be free on Epic from 19 November: claim it or buy it for Steam

GOCDKEYS TeamUpdated 13 Nov 20265 min read

Alien: Isolation is free on Epic from 19 to 26 November. On Steam it costs €39.99, but the Steam Key is €3.51 (€3.67 with fees) with a coupon.

Alien: Isolation will be free on the Epic Games Store from Thursday 19 November at 16:00 UTC (17:00 CET) until Thursday 26 November at the same time. It shares the week with Mark of the Deep, the other free game. Epic already shows it among next week's free games.

How the Epic giveaway works

Once the offer is live, you add the game to your Epic account and it stays there after the 26th. You play it through the Epic launcher, though, and it won't appear in your Steam library. We don't know yet whether the Epic copy comes with any of the DLC, so look at the store page on the 19th before you rely on it.

If you already have the Epic launcher installed, this is the easy route. Creative Assembly's survival horror, published by SEGA, has an 85 on Metacritic, and for a week it costs nothing.

The Steam version is under €4

Steam sells Alien: Isolation for €39.99, with no discount right now. Key stores are a different story: the cheapest Steam Key this morning is at Difmark Digital Keys, €3.51 (€3.67 with fees) with the coupon Gocdkeys. That's roughly €36 less than Steam.

It's also a little under the key's usual price, a median of €4.18 before fees. The lowest we've ever recorded is €2.02, also before fees, and that was years ago. Over 896 days of price data the key has been cheaper than today on just 23.

Promoted store

Difmark Digital Keys 4.1 (14.2k)

Coupon

Gocdkeys -16% Copied!

€

4.18

€

3.67

Store Difmark Digital Keys

Region Global

Product type Steam Key

Edition Standard

Fees +€

0.16

Gameboost 4.4 (15.1k)

Coupon

GCDK13 -13% Copied!

€

4.12

€

3.75

Store Gameboost

Region Global

Product type Steam Key

Edition Standard

Fees +€

0.17

Cdkeys Com 4.7 (226.4k)

No code available

€

3.79

Store Cdkeys Com

Region Global

Product type Steam Key

Edition Standard

Fees +€

0.00

Instant Gaming 4.7 (843.1k)

No code available

€

3.79

Store Instant Gaming

Region Global

Product type Steam Key

Edition Standard

Fees +€

0.00

YUPLAY 4.8 (2.5k)

No code available

€

3.84

Store YUPLAY

Region Global

Product type Steam Key

Edition Standard

Fees +€

0.00

Gameseal 4.3 (16.3k)

Coupon

SEAL17CKD -17% Copied!

€

3.88

€

3.86

Store Gameseal

Region Global

Product type Steam Key

Edition Standard

Fees +€

0.64

Gameseal 4.3 (16.3k)

Coupon

SEAL17CKD -17% Copied!

€

3.88

€

3.86

Store Gameseal

Region Europe

Product type Steam Key

Edition Standard

Fees +€

0.64

Who should wait for Epic, and who should pay

If you've never played it, or you want to try it before spending anything, wait six days and claim it. Most people should do exactly that.

The Steam Key is for players whose whole collection lives on Steam and who want this one there too, with their Steam achievements and no second launcher. At under €4 you're close to the floor, so holding out for a deeper discount won't save you much. It also matters if you plan to add DLC on Steam later, because a Steam DLC key only activates on an account that owns the base game.

Nostromo, Ripley and the Season Pass

We also track the bigger editions as Steam Keys. The Nostromo Edition starts at €6.55 (€7.77 with fees) at Gamivo with GCDKGamivo, and the Ripley Edition at €8.59 (€9.64 with fees) at Gameseal with SEAL17CKD. The Season Pass on its own is €1.59 (no fees) at Instant Gaming, and in 192 days of data we haven't seen it cheaper. Check what each edition includes on its page before you choose.

Buying now or waiting for a lower price

Every store is on the Alien: Isolation key page. If you'd rather wait for something closer to €2, set a price alert and we'll email you when it drops.

Prices checked on the morning of 13 November.