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!
You Alone Can Defeat Evil
You Alone Can Defeat Evil is a challenging dark-fantasy action game built around an epic battle against the Great Demon. Players take on the role of a rogue sorcerer cast out from the Order of Eskilon, using forbidden magic, cursed tattoos, and fast, precision-based combat to survive an enemy designed to push their skills to the limit. Death is not simply a setback—instead, each defeat helps unlock new abilities, uncover hidden lore, and provide another opportunity to learn the demon’s attacks and refine your strategy. With an emphasis on persistence, mastery, and earning every bit of progress, You Alone Can Defeat Evil is designed for players who enjoy difficult boss fights and the satisfaction of finally overcoming a seemingly impossible challenge.
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Porcunipine
Porcunipine is a fast-paced couch multiplayer arena game where a group of balding, battle-hungry porcupines fight for survival using the one quill each of them has left. Players can fire their quill at opponents, but every shot leaves them temporarily unarmed until they retrieve it—and because quills ricochet off walls and obstacles, a poorly aimed attack can be just as dangerous to the shooter. With Arena and Last Man Standing modes, customizable matches, optional bots, and 30 arenas spread across five distinct stages, Porcunipine turns a simple mechanic into frantic, unpredictable multiplayer battles that are easy to pick up and especially suited to playing with friends.
Graveyard Keeper 2: Key Giveaway For Free Subscribers
Graveyard Keeper 2 brings back the darkly comedic medieval management formula of the original while expanding it with town restoration, deeper automation, and large-scale battles against the undead. Now serving as the Grand Inquisitor, players manage and expand their graveyard, gather resources, build machinery, and put zombie workers to use automating production—all while rebuilding the surrounding town and finding increasingly questionable ways to turn its problems into profit.
The sequel also introduces combat-focused elements, allowing players to fortify the town, craft weapons and armor, train an undead army, and fight back against a zombie apocalypse. With its blend of simulation, crafting, RPG progression, morbid humor, and unconventional business management, Graveyard Keeper 2 offers a bigger and more chaotic take on the series’ distinctly twisted world.
If you would like to be in the running for a key, hit reply and just put 'graveyard'. We will pick a winner and send over the key in 48 hours
Docked: Key Giveaway For Free Subscribers
Docked is a realistic port operations simulator that puts players behind the controls of massive industrial machinery as they work to rebuild Port Wake following a devastating hurricane. Players can operate ship-to-shore cranes, terminal tractors, reach stackers, straddle carriers, and other heavy equipment, taking on contracts that involve unloading ships, transporting cargo, stacking containers, and carefully maneuvering materials through busy dockyards.
The story-driven Campaign focuses on restoring the port, unlocking new machinery, expanding infrastructure, and keeping equipment maintained, while Free Play Mode removes mission restrictions and lets players manage cargo operations at their own pace.
With an emphasis on authentic scale, physics, and precise vehicle handling, Docked offers a hands-on simulation experience centered around the complex day-to-day work of running a major shipping terminal.
If you would like to be in the running for a key, hit reply and just put 'docked'. We will pick a winner and send over the key in 48 hours
Historically Low Prices
This section of Loot Happens currently tracks historical discounts 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!
Batman - The Telltale Series [Steam]
Enter the fractured psyche of Bruce Wayne$̶̶14.99 $5.99
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown [Steam]
Dash into a stylish and thrilling action-adventure platformer
$̶̶29.99 $8.99
Onimusha: Way of the Sword [Steam]
An Oni Gauntlet-wielding samurai makes a stand$69.99 $57.60
Kirby Fighters™ 2 [Nintendo Switch]
Choose from a cast of Kirby’s most iconic copy abilities$19.99 $13.99
Featured Game Review: RuneScape: Dragonwilds
RuneScape: Dragonwilds takes the familiar world and flavor of RuneScape and successfully transforms it into an open-world survival crafting game. Set on the continent of Ashenfall, the game sends you into a colorful fantasy wilderness filled with dragons, monsters, ruins, resources, and plenty of reasons to wander off the path you intended to follow. You do not need to be a longtime RuneScape player to enjoy it, but fans will immediately recognize creatures, items, music, skills, and references from the series.
Rather than simply copying the MMO into a different format, Dragonwilds manages to feel like its own game while still maintaining a strong RuneScape identity.
The skill and progression systems are where Dragonwilds separates itself most from other survival games. Gathering wood, mining ore, cooking, crafting, fighting, and exploring all feed into skills that steadily unlock useful abilities and new ways to interact with the world. Magic is especially fun because it is incorporated into everyday survival rather than being limited to combat. Being able to magically chop down trees, blast apart ore deposits, teleport around the environment, or perform other exaggerated RuneScape-style tricks makes gathering resources considerably more entertaining than the repetitive harvesting found in many survival games. There is still plenty of grinding, but progression usually gives that grinding a purpose.
Base Building
Exploration, crafting, and base building form the core of the experience, and Dragonwilds does a good job of constantly giving you another objective to chase. New regions introduce stronger enemies, better resources, quests, vaults, and equipment upgrades, while the looming threat of dragons provides some direction beyond simply building a bigger house. The building system is approachable, and several quality-of-life features make managing a large collection of materials less frustrating than it can be in similar games.
Playing cooperatively is arguably where everything works best, since a group can divide gathering, construction, exploration, and combat duties, although the entire adventure can also be tackled alone.
Combat is enjoyable but remains one of the areas with the most room for improvement. There is a satisfying variety of melee weapons, ranged options, spells, and recognizable RuneScape equipment, and the larger encounters can be genuinely exciting. At the same time, stamina management, weapon durability, enemy aggression, and some occasionally stiff animations can make longer fights and dungeons feel more tedious than challenging. Solo players are likely to notice these limitations more than groups, particularly when gathering supplies and clearing difficult areas without anyone to share the workload. Even after reaching version 1.0, parts of the combat and progression still feel like systems Jagex intends to continue refining.
Bottom Line
Overall, RuneScape: Dragonwilds is a surprisingly strong combination of RuneScape RPG progression and modern survival crafting. It does not completely reinvent the genre, and players expecting the depth of the original MMO or the polish of the very best survival games may find some aspects of the current release unfinished or repetitive. What it does have is personality, satisfying progression, clever uses of magic, an appealing world, and a particularly enjoyable cooperative loop. RuneScape veterans will get the most from all the familiar details, but Dragonwilds is accessible enough that newcomers can enjoy it without knowing anything about Gielinor. For anyone who likes games such as Valheim or Enshrouded but wants a more distinctly fantasy-RPG approach to the formula, Dragonwilds is well worth exploring.
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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