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: Random
This week, we're adding mystery to our premium subscribers' giveaway. This time, we have a group of random games, but with some major titles sprinkled in. By following the link below, you can claim one of the best free games we have in the database.
It can be anything, from an awesome indie game, an old reboot, or a fresh AAA game. When you put in your email address Tons of variety as always!
Coal LLC: Key Giveaway For Free Subscribers
Coal LLC is a darkly comedic idle management game about building a coal-mining empire for your ever-demanding corporate overlords. Starting with a flimsy pickaxe, you’ll hire and promote workers, upgrade equipment, and race to hit daily quotas as the underground resets each night. Your operation can grow from a small crew to absurd, sky-high numbers of specialized miners, each adding new bonuses. Hard Mode modifiers raise the stakes with tougher challenges and badge rewards for surviving with each profession. With multiple maps and upgrade paths, it’s a steady climb of optimization and expansion. It’s simple, satirical, and all about pushing productivity to ridiculous extremes
If you would like to be in the running for a key, hit reply and just put 'coal'. We will pick a winner and send over the key in 48 hours
Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles: Key Giveaway For Free Subscribers
Final Fantasy Tactics is a classic tactical RPG set in the war-torn kingdom of Ivalice, where young noble Ramza is drawn into the brutal War of the Lions. Battles play out on layered 3D fields where positioning, turn order, and smart planning decide victory. With over 20 jobs and countless abilities to mix and match, you can shape your party into nearly any strategy you imagine. The enhanced version adds updated visuals, full voice acting, refined mechanics, and an easier difficulty option for newcomers. It remains one of the most respected and influential strategy RPGs ever made.
If you would like to be in the running for a key, hit reply and just put 'fantasy'. 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!
Borderlands 4 Deluxe Edition [PS5]
Take on new areas with unique missions and bosses.$99.99 $69.99
Featured Game Review: Resident Evil Requiem
Resident Evil Requiem opens in suffocating darkness and ends in a storm of gunfire. Capcom’s ninth mainline entry deliberately splits itself between two distinct identities: slow-burn survival horror and full-throttle action spectacle. At first, it’s all creaking floorboards, limited ammo, and the feeling that something is breathing just out of sight. Hours later, it becomes a blood-soaked power fantasy where heads explode on cue and chainsaws roar through corridors. Requiem’s biggest gamble is trying to satisfy both sides of the Resident Evil fanbase in one package, and for the most part, it succeeds, even if that tonal split never fully blends into a seamless whole.
A descent into dread
The early hours belong to Grace Ashcroft, a rookie FBI analyst investigating deaths tied to the long aftermath of Raccoon City. Her search lands her inside Rhodes Hill Chronic Care Center — a sprawling, decaying sanatorium that feels like a spiritual cousin to the Spencer Mansion. This is Resident Evil at its most oppressive: locked doors, intricate puzzles, and enemies that feel disturbingly aware of your presence.
Grace is underpowered and constantly vulnerable. Inventory space is tight, ammunition scarce, and movement slow enough that every crouched step feels deliberate. Played in a tight first-person perspective, each gunshot is deafening, each impact grotesque. Blood spatters linger on walls, corpses threaten to reanimate, and the silence between encounters is often more terrifying than the fights themselves. Crafting adds a smart twist — harvested infected blood can be repurposed into healing items or devastating single-use injectors that turn stealth kills into spectacular bursts of gore.
What elevates these sections isn’t just the tension, but Grace herself. She’s one of the series’ most grounded protagonists — anxious, overwhelmed, and gradually finding resolve. Watching her evolve from near-panic to defiant survivor gives the horror weight beyond simple shock value. For several hours, Requiem is among the most nerve-wracking entries the franchise has delivered.
Leon unleashed
Then Leon S. Kennedy arrives — and the temperature shifts instantly.
Leon’s sections default to third-person and lean unapologetically into action. Where Grace tiptoes, Leon charges. His arsenal is extensive, from heavy shotguns to sniper rifles, throwable melee weapons, and even a chainsaw that pushes combat into gleeful excess. Gunplay is slick, responsive, and confidently cinematic. Finishers land with brutal precision, and boss encounters escalate into bombastic set pieces that rival the most memorable moments of Resident Evil 4.
The pacing accelerates dramatically in the back half, sometimes to the point where the horror recedes almost entirely. Large-scale fights, highway chases, and artillery-heavy sequences trade dread for spectacle. The combat is undeniably fun — Leon has no “off” switch when it comes to dismantling undead hordes — but after hours of sustained action, the balance tips heavily away from the tension that defined the opening act.
This structural divide becomes Requiem’s defining trait. The first half is tightly wound survival horror; the second is a confident action-horror romp. Both are executed well, yet they feel more adjacent than integrated — like two expertly crafted experiences sharing the same campaign rather than a fully fused evolution of both.
Verdict
Resident Evil Requiem is a bold experiment in tonal duality. It delivers some of the series’ most unsettling horror through Grace’s fragile, methodical escape, then pivots into explosive, cathartic chaos with Leon at the helm. The lack of substantial side content and the uneven blending of its two halves hold it back from true greatness, but each side of its identity is compelling in its own right. From its trembling first steps in shadow to its thunderous, monster-sized finale, Requiem proves that Resident Evil can still terrify, even when it can’t quite decide which it wants to be more.
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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