OTXO and Sol Cesto Are Free on Epic Games Store Right Now

Grab your keyboard. Epic Games Store‘s new giveaway pairs two roguelites that couldn’t be more different: OTXO, a brutal, time-bending top-down shooter, and Sol Cesto, a tactical dungeon crawler where every risk is a visible number. Both are free until August 6, 2026 at 5 PM UTC.

Claim them once, and they’re yours forever. No subscription, no catch, no install required to keep them.

How to Claim Them

1. Go to the Epic Games Store free games page, or open the Epic Games Launcher.
2. Find OTXO or Sol Cesto.
3. Click “Get.” Confirm the free checkout.
4. Do the same for the second game.

You have until August 6 at 5 PM UTC / 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT. Miss it, and both return to full price.

OTXO — Kick Down the Door, Ask Questions Later

Developer: Lateralis Heavy Industries  |  Publisher: Super Rare Originals  |  Released: 2023  |  Regular price: $13.49

Your partner has been taken. She’s somewhere inside a mansion that shouldn’t exist, and you can’t leave until you find her. That’s the entire premise of OTXO, and it’s all the story you need. What follows is room after room of masked enemies, dropped the instant you kick down a door.

Every run starts the same way: the Infinite Foyer, a bartender who won’t serve you until you drop your weapon, and a free drink that grants a random passive buff. From there, you’re on your own with over 100 abilities, dozens of guns, and a slow-motion Focus mechanic that turns every firefight into a puzzle of timing and angles. Clear rooms fast enough and your combo multiplier climbs, handing you more currency and more power for the next run.

Critics call the comparison to Hotline Miami obvious and fair, but OTXO earns its own identity through the mansion itself, an ever-shifting, David Lynch-style structure that never lets a run feel like the last one. It holds a 73 on OpenCritic and a striking 94% positive rating from over 1,800 Steam reviews. Reviewers single out the soundtrack and the sheer replayability, while some note the story stays thin and the permanent progression is lighter than genre veterans might expect. None of that stops most players from calling it a must-play for the top-down shooter crowd.

Sol Cesto — Every Risk, Right There in the Open

Developer: Tambouille (Géraud Zucchini & Chariospirale)  |  Publisher: Goblinz Publishing  |  Released: April 10, 2026 (1.0)  |  Regular price: $17.99

Most roguelites hide their math. Sol Cesto puts it front and center. Each dungeon floor is a 4×4 grid. You don’t pick a tile, you pick a row, and the game shows you the odds of landing on a monster, a trap, a healing strawberry, or a treasure chest before you commit. Pull cursed teeth from statues to shift those odds in your favor, then decide how much risk you can stomach.

Built by a two-person team, French indie studio Tambouille, over a French hackathon prototype that grew into a full release, Sol Cesto left Early Access on April 10, 2026, after selling more than 70,000 copies during development. The 1.0 launch added a full roster of seven playable characters, five biomes, unique endings for every character, a new final boss, and a hidden area.

The game earned finalist nods for Best Indie Game and Best Game Design at the 2026 Pégases Awards, and one outlet called it a flat-out 10/10, praising how it turns hidden dungeon-crawler math into a visible, tension-driven decision every single turn. It carries an 89% positive rating from over 2,100 Steam reviews. The most common critique: with stat modifiers capped and RNG still steering most outcomes, some players feel the strategic depth tops out earlier than they’d like. If you enjoy games that make you sit with a bad decision instead of hiding it behind a loading screen, that trade-off is part of the appeal, not a flaw.

Quick Comparison

What’s Coming August 6: Beacon Pines and We Were Here Together

Epic has already locked in next week’s giveaway. Starting August 6, you’ll be able to claim:

• Beacon Pines — a storybook adventure following three animal friends investigating a mystery in a town called Beacon Pines, built around a distinctive “charm” system that lets players swap words in the story to unlock new outcomes.
• We Were Here Together — the third entry in the co-op puzzle series that splits two players up and forces them to communicate their way through escape-room-style challenges neither can solve alone.

Both run from August 6 to August 13, 2026.

Quick Summary

• OTXO — free until August 6
• Sol Cesto — free until August 6
• Deadline: August 6, 2026 at 5 PM UTC / 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT
• Combined value: $31.48
• Claim at: epicgames.com/store/free-games
• Next up (Aug 6): Beacon Pines + We Were Here Together

Sources: Epic Games Store · WorthPlaying · OpenCritic (OTXO) · Metacritic (Sol Cesto) · EGW News · Rogueliker · Steam (OTXO) · Steam (Sol Cesto)