Hogwarts Legacy Is Free to Claim on the Epic Games Store and Yes, You can Keep it Forever

Alright, Harry Potter nerds and open-world RPG junkies, gather round. Epic Games has officially unleashed one of the biggest wizarding adventures in gaming onto the Epic Games Store for free to download and keep forever - but there's a catch. You need to be quick: you have to do it before December 18, 2025.

This is the first time Hogwarts Legacy, the sprawling, spell-slinging RPG set in the wizarding world's 1800s, has ever been offered for free on this platform. Normally it sits at around sixty bucks on PC and other digital storefronts, but right now if you log into the Epic Games Store, find the game's page, and "buy" it (yep, for zero dollars), it becomes permanently yours in your library - no subscriptions, no catches. 

This giveaway is part of the Epic 2025 Holiday Sale, which kicked off earlier this month and runs through early January with discounts, rotating free games, and other perks. Hogwarts Legacy is the first heavyweight to drop, and it's exactly the kind of treat fans have been craving during the winter gaming drought.

If you've ever wanted to wander the halls of Hogwarts, master potions, duel dark wizards, or just explore an enormous magical world full of secrets and lore, now is literally the best time to do it. Just don't sleep on it - once the clock strikes midnight on December 18, this particular spell disappears and the next free game will take its place.