A big welcome back to all Loot Happens subscribers. Loot Happens is a weekly newsletter that is emailed and posted on LootHappens.com.
It's important to note that for premium subscribers, game offerings and in-game content, every week is different. Sometimes it's in-game codes, Steam keys, and giveaways, but premium members will always get something special every mailing. We also occasionally get mind-blowing early access or premium games that pay for an entire year's subscription.
Each newsletter is generally structured as Premium Loot > Free Sub Giveaways > Game Feature > Game discounts.
Premium Subscribers: CheatHappens.com - 10 Free Prize Wheel Spins
CheatHappens is giving premium subscribers 10 free Prize Wheel Spins which is a random chance at all kinds of good stuff from the site. This is available to every premium subscriber of Loot Happens who also has a CheatHappens account.
Key Giveaway For Premium Subscribers - Choose Your Game!
Boo! Greedy Kid
Boo! Greedy Kid makes soda-chasing into slapstick chaos. As a brat who scares people for cash, you’ll sneak, shout, and dodge cops across 100 frantic levels, even distracting foes with over-the-top antics. With its mix of stealth, silliness, and a level editor for endless tricks, it’s absurd fun that never takes itself seriously. And the more you play, the greedier—and goofier—it gets.
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Citadale: The Legends Trilogy
Citadale: The Legends Trilogy drags you through three generations of blood-soaked battles against the Dark Lord. Play as Sonja Dorleac, her son Gabriel, and grandson Christopher in a trio of brutally hard, 8-bit side-scrollers packed with gothic levels, vicious bosses, and secrets to uncover. With multiple endings, boss rush challenges, and a pounding chiptune soundtrack, it’s a love letter to old-school action that demands precision, patience, and plenty of grit.
Commandos: Origins: Key Giveaway For Free Subscribers
Commandos: Origins revives the birth of real-time tactics. Set in WWII, it unites the Green Beret and his legendary squad for daring missions of sabotage, infiltration, and rescue across Europe, Africa, and the Arctic. Each commando’s unique skills demand careful planning, precise execution, and smart teamwork, whether you play solo or in two-player co-op. With more than ten historically inspired operations, it’s a sharp blend of stealth, strategy, and high-stakes tension.
If you would like to be in the running for a key, hit reply and just put 'commandos'. We will pick a winner and send over the key in 48 hours
Borderlands 4: Key Giveaway For Free Subscribers
Borderlands 4 turns mayhem into a revolution. On the chaotic planet of Kairos, four new Vault Hunters rise to challenge the tyrannical Timekeeper, bringing outrageous Action Skills, branching skill trees, and an arsenal of billions of wild weapons into battle. Combat feels faster and flashier than ever thanks to new movement abilities like double jumps, grapples, and glides, transforming every skirmish into a kinetic storm of bullets and explosions. The world itself is vast and unpredictable, from hover-bike rides across sun-scorched deserts to tense clashes with warring factions in ruined cities, all tied together by the series’ trademark humor and over-the-top style.
If you would like to be in the running for a key, hit reply and just put 'borderlands'. We will pick a winner and send over the key in 48 hours
Historically Low Prices
This section of Loot Happens tracks historical discounts right now on games and throughout the industry! Our tireless web crawlers scour the web daily, sniffing out the best deals across the gaming landscape.
These aren't just any games – they're titles we adore and highly respect. And right now, you can grab them at prices we've never seen before!
Everybody's Golf Hot Shots [Steam]
Hit the green with a variety of unique characters and courses in online and offline. $̶̶46.58 $34.42
Rise of the Ronin [PS5]
As a masterless warrior – a Ronin, your destiny is your own.$69.99 $39.89
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Complete Edition [Nintendo Switch]
You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer.$59.99 $14.99
MARIO + RABBIDS SPARKS OF HOPE [Nintendo Switch]
Build your dream team with three heroes from an eclectic roster of nine.$59.99 $9.99
Featured Game Review: Cronos: The New Dawn
To step into Cronos: The New Dawn is to wade into the shadows of horror history. Fresh off the acclaim of 2024’s Silent Hill 2 remake, Bloober Team has traded psychological unease for something louder and bloodier. This survival-horror shooter wears its Dead Space influence on its sleeve. Set in the plague-ravaged ruins of New Dawn, Poland’s futuristic ghost city, the game drops you into a world of mutants, madness, and time-fractured mystery. It’s a compelling stage for a new nightmare, even if the combat doesn’t always match the ambition of its ideas.
Combat That Can’t Keep Pace
Cronos: The New Dawn is packed with pus-oozing mutants that resemble wax figures left to rot in the sun, and while they’re suitably grotesque, the act of fighting them feels underwhelming. Gun mods add some flavour—a shotgun that charges blasts, another that fires two shots at once—but they rarely alter the core rhythm of pistol, shotgun, and assault rifle play. Even the high-powered railgun, when I found it, mostly collected dust thanks to a baffling inventory system that treats each gun as a separate item despite the Traveler’s firearm supposedly morphing between forms. It’s one of several design choices that make combat feel less like progression and more like busywork.
The bigger issue is how obviously Cronos wears its Dead Space inspiration, only to fall short of its benchmark. Where Dead Space encouraged improvisation with stasis, telekinesis, and strategic limb-shooting, Cronos boils encounters down to headshots and explosive barrels. Its time-rewind mechanic adds intrigue to environmental puzzles, but in combat, it’s relegated to respawning barrels rather than enabling clever tricks. Enemies can absorb nearby corpses to mutate into stronger forms, adding urgency, but even that wrinkle never truly changes your approach. Serviceable? Yes. Memorable? Not quite.
The game can create a great horror experience
For all its uneven combat, Cronos: The New Dawn still knows how to ratchet up tension when it matters most. Its half-dozen boss fights are the clear standouts—towering monstrosities that fill claustrophobic arenas with panic and desperation. Whether it was a writhing mass of tendrils stalking me through a shattered apartment block or grotesque conjoined twins smashing their way out of a steelworks basement, each encounter had me scrambling for ammo, missing shots with sweaty palms, and barely limping away with a sliver of health left. In those frantic moments, Cronos proves it can channel survival horror at its most stressful and satisfying.
Backing this up is the game’s essence system, a clever mechanic that lets the Traveler absorb traits from fallen characters. These buffs—ranging from better ammo efficiency to enhanced damage against burning foes—add an element of choice and permanence, since you can only keep three active at a time and must sacrifice one to gain another. It’s reminiscent of roguelike experimentation, encouraging you to shape your build to match your playstyle, even if the effects aren’t always communicated clearly. When combined with the intensity of boss encounters, it injects a welcome layer of strategy and unpredictability into the blood-soaked journey.
Bottom Line
Cronos: The New Dawn offers a bleak, fascinating world to explore and a mystery worth unraveling, but its uninspired combat keeps it firmly in the shadows of survival-horror giants like Dead Space and Resident Evil 4. The environments drip with unsettling detail, and boss encounters deliver moments of genuine panic. Yet, too much padding slows the pace, and its jump scares feel predictable compared to the psychological dread of Silent Hill 2. Like the Traveler herself, burdened by the echoes of the past, Cronos carries the essence of survival horror—but never quite finds the spark to make it truly unforgettable.
Every newsletter has a lot to look forward to, and we are in active communication with several developers and studios. More to come next week!
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