{"id":1444636,"date":"2025-12-30T19:05:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/X4imCFPnnwjDeZgoa52nvC"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:05:20","slug":"some-of-my-favorite-childhood-platformers-are-free-on-epic-for-today-only-and-theyve-all-been-updated-for-better-crossplay-with-steam-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/some-of-my-favorite-childhood-platformers-are-free-on-epic-for-today-only-and-theyve-all-been-updated-for-better-crossplay-with-steam-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of my favorite childhood platformers are free on Epic for today only, and they&#8217;ve all been updated for better crossplay with Steam owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Another day, another freebie. There&#8217;s been a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/epic-games-store-free-games-list\/\">new free game on the Epic Games Store<\/a> each day since December 18 for the holidays, and today&#8217;s deal is a four-in-one: the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.epicgames.com\/en-US\/bundles\/trine-classic-collection\" target=\"_blank\">Trine Classic Collection<\/a>. Not only that, but each game in the collection <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/?emclan=103582791430518283&#038;emgid=537747742027417846\" target=\"_blank\">has been updated<\/a> so a cross-platform co-op game between a Steam user and an Epic Games Store user is a little less finicky.<\/p>\n<p>Now, when you boot up Trine 1 through 4 on Steam, you&#8217;ll be prompted to optionally link your Steam and Epic accounts for cross-platform friend invites and achievement progress. The series&#8217; headlining feature is its three-player co-op, so this should make playing with anyone who just got the games due to this promotion easier.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t played Trine, it&#8217;s a The Lost Vikings-style puzzle platformer with three characters: a bumbling but burly knight, a thief with grappling hooks and a bow, and a wizard who can generate cubes and platformers. In solo play, you can only control one character at a time, but in multiplayer, all three characters are on screen at once. It gets chaotic quickly, but that&#8217;s the fun bit; the puzzles are good, but rarely major head scratchers.<\/p>\n<p>They were decently popular on Steam when they first hit the scene, and while they aren&#8217;t masterpieces, they are unfailingly lighthearted, breezy, and fun. The Trine series is the workhorse of the puzzle platformer: there&#8217;s a new one out <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/holy-cow-a-new-trine-game-is-coming-out-this-summer\/\">every few years<\/a> and the quality has remained admirably consistent (even considering the 3D black sheep, Trine 3). This bundle doesn&#8217;t include the latest entry, Trine 5, but there&#8217;s around two dozen hours of puzzling packed into the first four entries.<\/p>\n<p>Every mention of Trine brings up some warm and fuzzy feelings for me, as it was one of the earlier non-Valve games I played on Steam back in the day. It helped enamor me with the platformer as a young&#8217;un and, in part, set me on this path where I squawk about videogames for a living, so I&#8217;ll always sing its praises for that.<\/p>\n<p>Trine Classic Collection is available for free until December 31 on the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.epicgames.com\/en-US\/bundles\/trine-classic-collection\" target=\"_blank\">Epic Games Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"3beb04ed-3487-488e-8db4-6bea16891eab\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/some-of-my-favorite-childhood-platformers-are-free-on-epic-for-today-only-and-theyve-all-been-updated-for-better-crossplay-with-steam-owners.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"3beb04ed-3487-488e-8db4-6bea16891eab\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/some-of-my-favorite-childhood-platformers-are-free-on-epic-for-today-only-and-theyve-all-been-updated-for-better-crossplay-with-steam-owners\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another freebie. There&#8217;s been a new free game on the Epic Games Store each day since December 18 for the holidays, and today&#8217;s deal is a four-in-one: the Trine Classic Collection. Not only that, but each game in the collection has been updated so a cross-platform co-op game between a Steam user and an Epic Games Store user is a little less finicky. Now, when you boot up Trine 1 through 4 on Steam, you&#8217;ll be prompted to optionally link your Steam and Epic accounts for cross-platform friend invites and achievement progress. The series&#8217; headlining feature is its three-player co-op, so this should make playing with anyone who just got the games due to this promotion easier. If you haven&#8217;t played Trine, it&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/some-of-my-favorite-childhood-platformers-are-free-on-epic-for-today-only-and-theyve-all-been-updated-for-better-crossplay-with-steam-owners\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1444637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[23,748],"class_list":["post-1444636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-action","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Some of my favorite childhood platformers are free on Epic for today only, and they&#039;ve all been updated for better crossplay with Steam owners | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Another day, another freebie. 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