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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!
Nanali in Another World
Nanali in Another World is a dimension-shifting platformer where every jump is a gamble between two realities. Guiding Nanali, you slip back and forth between parallel worlds, each with its own hazards, hidden routes, and puzzle logic that only makes sense when you see both sides. Levels twist around traps, moving platforms, and clever mechanical tricks that demand fast reactions and smarter planning. The retro-pixel art keeps everything charmingly old-school, while the dual-world mechanic turns each area into a layered riddle waiting to be solved.
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Dark Armada
Borderwatch: Dark Armada drops you into a world already lost, where the UN has fled Earth, and the only hope is catching a rescue helicopter that lifts off every ten days. You and three survivors scour ruined capitals for weapons, traps, and supplies while infected creatures mutate into stronger, region-shaped horrors. Radio signals tease allies or ambushes as your generator-powered comms flicker in the dark. Each night, the raids hit harder, ammo runs thinner, and the countdown feels crueler. It’s a frantic co-op sprint through Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, Moscow and beyond — a race where planning, looting, and raw speed decide who reaches the chopper and who joins the Dark Armada.
Fish Stick Protocol: Key Giveaway For Free Subscribers
Fish Stick Protocol is eight-player chaos wrapped in neon portals and procedural madness. You and your friends dive into unstable dimensions where physics breaks first, and teamwork breaks second — scrambling for bizarre artefacts before the world mutates beneath your feet. Back home, the Mansion becomes your trophy room and playground, expanding as your approval rating climbs and filling with new tools, colors, and cosmetic weirdness. Every run is a gamble: one moment you’re giants stomping through mushroom forests, the next you’re on fire, upside down, or suddenly made of stone.
If you would like to be in the running for a key, hit reply and just put 'fish'. We will pick a winner and send over the key in 48 hours
Rebel Engine: Key Giveaway For Free Subscribers
Rebel Engine drops you into the steel guts of Ultima City, where sentient robots live under a corporation that grinds them down. Asimov isn’t a hero — he’s a construction bot who finally snaps, tearing his way up the tower that’s been his factory and his cage. Combat is a cyclone of metal and momentum: guns that launch enemies like scrap, claws that turn foes into projectiles, and melee tools ripped from an industrial nightmare. Each floor is a gauntlet of drones and corporate bruisers, every boss a reminder of the system that broke him. It’s a revenge story told through nonstop combos, shattered chassis, and the raw hunger for freedom.
If you would like to be in the running for a key, hit reply and just put 'rebel'. 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!
Battlefield 6 [Steam]
Destruction is your weapon. Make a vehicle a wrecking ball.$̶̶81.32 $69.52
Hello Neighbor [Steam]
Hello Neighbor is a stealth horror game about sneaking into your neighbor's house.$̶̶32.52 $4.22
Monster Hunter Wilds [PS5]
This is a story of monsters and humans and their struggles to live in harmony.$69.99 $48.99
Octopath Traveler II [PS5]
Begin your adventure as one of eight new travelers.$59.99 $23.99
Undertale [Nintendo Switch]
The world-famous indie RPG UNDERTALE comes to Nintendo Switch.$14.99 $9.89
GRIS [Nintendo Switch]
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life.$16.99 $2.99
Human: Fall Flat [Nintendo Switch]
Includes 22 great levels. Over 35 million units sold across all formats!.$19.99 $5.99
Featured Game Review: ARC Raiders
There’s a special kind of thrill that only extraction shooters can deliver, that razor-thin line between triumph and total ruin, where every footstep in the dirt might be a rival squad and every rusty container might hold the upgrade that carries you into your next run. ARC Raiders taps into that high-stress, high-reward rhythm with surprising confidence. What begins as a cautious scavenge through a broken world quickly becomes a loop you sink into for hours without noticing, each raid a gamble that feels both reckless and necessary. By the time the systems start to click — the danger, the scarcity, the sudden bursts of violence — it’s hard to deny that this is one of the most cohesive, polished takes on the extraction formula we’ve seen in years. Bugs and frustrations exist, sure, but the pull of the next run is strong enough to make you forgive more than you expect.
A Core Loop That Understands the Genre
Extraction shooters often stumble on their own ambition. Some overcomplicate progression, others drown the tension in sluggish controls or messy balance. ARC Raiders keeps the foundation familiar: drop into a hostile zone, pick through the debris of a ruined Earth, outsmart robots and raider crews, and get out alive with whatever’s stuffed in your pack. It doesn’t reinvent the genre — it refines it.
Runs are shaped by scarcity. Ammunition is a luxury, reload times stretch out just long enough to raise your blood pressure, and ARCs — the robotic oppressors patrolling the surface — hit with the kind of force that turns a single mistake into instant regret. The result is a pacing that feels deliberate. You slink through abandoned buildings like a scavenger who never truly stops listening, always aware that a wandering patrol or an opportunistic squad could turn a quiet trip into a disaster.
What sets it apart is the clean execution. After years of well-meaning but clumsy attempts in this space, ARC Raiders finally feels like the first game to make the genre’s fundamentals comfortable — tense without being exhausting, rewarding without being punitive, and polished in ways its competitors rarely manage.
A World That Wants to Kill You… Beautifully
If the systems are the heart of ARC Raiders, its world is the pulse. The surface is harsh, scarred, and striking, with a drowned dam here and a buried city there, each area littered with remnants of a civilisation swallowed by time and machines. There are only four maps for now, and you’ll memorize their layouts sooner than you expect, but clever hidden routes and keycard-gated rooms keep exploration rewarding long after the novelty fades.
The ARCs themselves steal the show. Early drones lull you into a false sense of security before the real threats emerge: swarms of hovering killers, long-range missile platforms, spiderlike hunters, and the massive Queens whose appearance sends even geared squads sprinting for cover. They coordinate frighteningly well, marking you, suppressing you, flushing you out, until you remember these aren’t monsters but machines built with unnerving efficiency.
They’re also occasionally dumb as bricks. A quick sidestep behind a tree can break their tracking entirely, and some patrols get stuck on geometry like confused Roombas. Enemy AI can’t quite keep pace with the game’s ambition, especially during early levels where your character is comically underpowered. But when everything clicks, when alarms flare, missiles streak in, and friends shout callouts as raiders swarm from the horizon, ARC Raiders hits a level of tension few games in the genre can touch.
Bottom line
ARC Raiders feels like the extraction shooter many of us have been waiting for — not because it changes the rules, but because it finally nails them. The gunfights are tense, the progression loop is addictive, the world is striking, and even the losses carry that irresistible “one more run” energy that keeps players up far too late on work nights. It stumbles: some bugs linger, the story is barely present, and early power scaling is rough. But at its best, ARC Raiders captures the thrill of risk and reward with clarity that most genre peers only gesture toward.
For anyone who’s spent years waiting for a polished, confident, genuinely exhilarating extraction shooter, this one feels like the answer.
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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