Shogun Showdown Free on Epic Games Store Until Sep 24

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Epic is giving away Shogun Showdown this week, a $14.99 turn-based roguelike carrying an 87 Top Critic Average on OpenCritic. The claim window closes Thursday 24 September at 11:00 AM ET, and anything claimed before then stays in your library. Below is how to claim it and whether the scores justify the download.

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Shogun Showdown Free on Epic Games Store Until Sep 24

Verified by Cathryn Lee Last updated Sep 19, 2026

Game	Shogun Showdown
Price	Free, normally $14.99
Claim before	Thu 24 Sep 2026, 11:00 AM ET (15:00 UTC)
Store	Epic Games Store (PC)
Platform	Windows only
Genre	Rogue-lite, strategy
Players	Single player
Length	About 10 hours to finish, per HowLongToBeat
Age rating	ESRB Everyone 10+ (Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood)
Keeps forever	Yes, permanent

Claim on Epic Games Store

How to claim the free copy

How to claim

Open the Shogun Showdown page on the Epic Games Store.
Sign in, or create a free Epic account.
Turn on two-factor authentication if it is off. Epic blocks free claims without it.
Click Get, then Place Order. The total is $0 and no card is involved.

What is Shogun Showdown?

About the game

Shogun Showdown is a turn-based roguelike fought along a single horizontal lane. You spend each turn moving, turning to face an enemy, or queuing one of your attack tiles, and those tiles fire on cooldowns rather than from a drawn hand. Position and turn order end up mattering more than raw damage. Between fights you upgrade tiles, pick up skills, and stack them into combos aimed at the Shogun at the end of the run. Death rolls you back to the start and unlocks new characters, tiles and skills on the way.

System requirements

Requirements

Component	Minimum and recommended
OS	Windows 7/8/10
CPU	1.7+ GHz or better
Memory	1 GB RAM
GPU	Intel HD Graphics 3000 or better
Storage	Not listed by Epic

Is it worth claiming?

Worth claiming?

8.4Expert Score

Great

A worth-claiming verdict from published scores, not a hands-on review. Nobody here has played it.
OpenCritic has it at an 87 Top Critic Average with 95% of 20 critics recommending it, and Steam shows 97% positive across 3,518 English-language reviews. Niche Gamer’s 7/10 is the low mark there, against 90/100 from PC Gamer.
Claim it if you like tactics where a step sideways beats a bigger weapon.
Skip it if you play for story. There is very little of one here.

Gameplay

8.6

Presentation

8.4

Story & atmosphere

Length & replay

8.6

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