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.
Key Giveaway For Premium Subscribers - Choose Your Game!
Dog Duty
Dog Duty throws you into chaotic, top-down battles against an army of trigger-happy octopi led by the ruthless Octopus Commander. Assemble your three-person squad of misfits, jump between islands, and wage fast-paced guerrilla warfare to free captured outposts. Every fight is a blur of explosions, bullets, and bad jokes as you battle squid tanks and madcap bosses from the roof of your armored ride. It’s loud, reckless, and proudly ridiculous—an old-school tactics romp with plenty of ink to spill.
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Police Shootout
Police Shootout puts you in the boots of Scott Price, a city cop starting over in the quiet streets of San Adrino. Every call is a test, shop robberies, hostage crises, tense standoffs, and how you handle them defines the kind of officer you become. Talk your way out or pull the trigger; the choice is always yours. With each mission, you uncover new skills, deeper motives, and the truth behind why you really came here. It’s a slow burn of duty, doubt, and the fine line between justice and survival.
Little Nightmares III: Key Giveaway For Free Subscribers
Little Nightmares III drops you into a world where childhood can’t survive. Two young friends, Low and Alone, try to escape the endless darkness of the Nowhere, a realm feeding on fear and despair. Their bond is their only weapon—Low’s bow cuts ropes and saves moments from disaster, while Alone’s wrench breaks barriers and crushes monsters. Each location feels like a twisted fairy tale, from the sand-swept Necropolis to the grotesque candy factory and rain-soaked carnival. It’s a haunting journey through nightmares that never end, and a fragile story of friendship against the dark.
If you would like to be in the running for a key, hit reply and just put 'nightmares'. We will pick a winner and send over the key in 48 hours
New World: Aeternum: Key Giveaway For Free Subscribers
New World: Aeternum invites you to carve out your destiny across haunted ruins, sprawling forests, and battle-scarred fortresses shaped by the island’s strange power. Forge weapons, command sorcery, and fight however you choose—alone, with allies, or against them—in a fluid, classless combat system that rewards experimentation. Between crafting, exploration, and wars waged by hundreds, every choice feels like a step toward survival—or legend—in this ever-shifting new world.
If you would like to be in the running for a key, hit reply and just put 'aeternum'. 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!
Elden Ring Nightreign [Steam]
NIGHTREIGN is a standalone adventure within the ELDEN RING universe. $̶̶46.43 $35.26
Gears of War: Reloaded [PS5]
Gears of War: Reloaded is a remaster of the blockbuster first Gears of War.$39.99 $29.99
STAR WARS Battlefront II [PS4]
Embark on an endless STAR WARS action experience from the bestselling STAR WARS HD videogame.$19.99 $4.99
ARK: Survival Ascended [PS5]
Embark on an endless STAR WARS action experience from the bestselling STAR WARS HD videogame.$44.99 $22.49
Featured Game Review: Little Nightmares 3
It’s hard to dream when you’ve seen the same nightmare before. Little Nightmares 3 returns to the suffocating darkness of its predecessors, only this time, it feels like the lights have been left on. What once crawled under your skin now barely grazes it. The addition of online co-op should’ve been the spark to reignite this eerie world, but instead, it plays like déjà vu with two flashlights instead of one. There’s still beauty in its gloom: flickers of imagination, grotesque designs, and moments that almost recapture the series’ old magic, but for the first time, waking up feels like a relief, not a loss.
Two kids, one fading fear
Low and Alone make for an evocative pair, tiny figures lost in vast, broken spaces that seem designed to swallow them whole. You can play as either — bow or wrench in hand — while the other tags along, steered by an AI that’s as unreliable as the floorboards beneath you. On paper, the dual approach promises dynamic puzzles and layered cooperation. In practice, each tool feels hemmed in, every solution signposted. The eerie silence that once stretched between thought and action has been replaced by something safer, more predictable. What was once dread now feels like routine.
From the sand-choked Necropolis to the twisted fairgrounds of Carnavale, each of the four realms carries the same sense of warped wonder that made the series famous — but less bite. The Carnavale chapter nearly redeems the whole trip, a grotesque carnival of bodies and noise where horror takes on a theatrical flair. Yet elsewhere, the rhythm dulls: the same stealth, the same chase, the same stumble into death and restart. There’s a hollow familiarity to every plank you drag and every vent you crawl through. The world still looks stunning, its grotesquery framed like a moving painting, but that haunting pulse — that sense of something watching — rarely returns.
You can share this nightmare with a friend, which sounds brilliant in theory. In practice, the restrictions — online-only play, no couch co-op, no drop-in flexibility — turn connection into inconvenience. The friend pass is generous, but the design itself doesn’t demand partnership; it merely tolerates it. Playing as Low or Alone changes little beyond aesthetics. It’s no It Takes Two — more like It Takes One and a Half. And when the AI misfires, you’ll find yourself longing for the simplicity of being truly alone again.
Bottom line
Little Nightmares 3 still carries everything that once defined the series: the moody lighting, the hollow echo of footsteps in endless corridors, and that unsettling sense of being small in a world built to devour you. Yet somehow, the soul feels missing. Its co-op ideas trip over old mechanics, and the scares fade almost as soon as they appear. The artistry remains, the same eerie silhouettes and painterly shadows, but the effect is softer, less gripping. The nightmare goes on, only this time it feels like something you’ve already survived.
Next Week
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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