Deal Radar: Skyrim $7.99, Prince of Persia $1.99 and More (Nov 13)

Epic’s free slot changes on November 19, and the store shelves are stacked with games that were already worth owning. Every price below came off the store’s own page this morning, along with the day the discount ends.

Those end dates are all over the place. Borderlands 3 drops off Steam on November 16, two GOG prices expire on the 17th, Skyrim’s discount ends on the 18th and Prince of Persia holds on until the 24th. If you want two of them, buy the one that expires first.

Free right now

• Knightica (Epic Games Store): free until November 19, normally $14.99. Epic’s pitch is “Recruit units, place them strategically, and find the synergies in this Roguelike AutoBattler!”, which means you build a warband and then take it through challenges to free the kingdoms. We covered the rotation before it in Idle Champions and Flotsam Free on Epic Games Store Through November 12.
• Alien: Isolation and Mark of the Deep (Epic Games Store): both free from November 19 to November 26. Alien: Isolation normally costs $39.99 and Mark of the Deep $19.99. Epic calls the first “a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger” and the second “an epic pirate-themed adventure” built on “Metroidvania and Souls-Like elements”.

Best deals today

• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition: ~~$39.99~~ $7.99 at Steam (-80%): Bethesda’s 2016 re-release of Skyrim, the fantasy RPG whose own store page credits it with more than 200 Game of the Year awards. Metacritic 84. Steam players rate it 94% positive across 133,351 reviews. Ends November 18.
• Borderlands 3: ~~$59.99~~ $5.99 at Steam (-90%): “The original shooter-looter returns, packing bazillions of guns” in 2K’s franchise sale. Metacritic 81. Steam players rate it 81% positive across 60,475 reviews. Ends November 16.
• 9 Kings: ~~$19.99~~ $9.99 at Steam (-50%): a fast-paced roguelike kingdom builder that launched yesterday, November 12, and is already half price. Metacritic 90, the highest critic score on this list. Steam players rate it 92% positive across 10,403 reviews. Ends November 26.
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: ~~$9.99~~ $1.99 at GOG (-80%): Ubisoft’s story of a young Prince drawn to a magic dagger and a cursed palace, and the highest Metacritic score here at 92. GOG’s own page puts $1.99 as its lowest price of the last 30 days. DRM-free means no launcher and no online check, just the installer on your own machine. Ends November 24.
• Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun: ~~$39.99~~ $3.99 at GOG (-90%): Edo-period Japan, 1620, where five highly specialized assassins fight for the Shogun against conspiracy and rebellion. Metacritic 85, and GOG users rate it 4.7 out of 5 across 332 reviews. Ends November 21.
• Lair of the Clockwork God: ~~$19.99~~ $1.99 at GOG (-90%): the store sells it as two games in one. Its pitch: “WHY PLAY ONLY ONE GENRE OF GAME when you could be playing two slightly different ones at the exact same time?” Metacritic 84. Ends November 21.
• Reventure: ~~$4.99~~ $0.85 at GOG (-83%): Pixelatto’s retro platformer with 100 different endings, in which you are “a wannabe hero who is supposed to do hero-ish things but sometimes blows that off”. Metacritic 83. Ends November 21.
• Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak: ~~$49.99~~ $4.99 at GOG (-90%): a ground-based real-time strategy prequel where you assemble a fleet and lead it across the shifting sands of Kharak. Metacritic 79, and $4.99 is the lowest GOG has charged in 30 days. Ends November 17.
• Sid Meier’s Pirates!: ~~$9.99~~ $1.99 at GOG (-80%): sail the Caribbean as a marauder, or sign up as a privateer and hunt for riches with your ship and crew. Metacritic 88. Ends November 17.

Every GOG price in this list is also the lowest that store has charged in the last 30 days, so the GOG half of this roundup is where the value is. Steam’s specials are the familiar kind, a franchise sale with a deadline attached, and Borderlands 3 goes back up first on November 16. If you only have time for one purchase today, consider the one that expires soonest.

Skip it

Possessor(s): ~~$9.99~~ $1.49 at Steam (-85%): a 2025 action side-scroller that looks like a steal on the badge and isn’t. The store calls it “a fast-paced action side scroller with combat inspired by platform fighters”, Metacritic scored it 71, and Steam players rate it 74% positive across 791 reviews. It stays at $1.49 until November 18. For fifty cents more on GOG you can have Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which Metacritic scored at 92.

Edited by Kerwin Stewart, Editor-in-Chief · How we report