One of the advantages of subscribing to Amazon Prime is that in addition to getting free shipping for most of the products sold in the store, and access to Amazon Prime Video at no cost, and it is that we can also take advantage of the advantages of Twitch Prime with which to get free games every month and extra bonuses for many other games.
What is PrimeGaming?
Prime Gaming is the name that Twitch Prime now receives. Like other subscription services, Prime gaming It allows you to benefit from a large number of advantages with which to take advantage of the service and, in addition, your account will serve to support other users who generate content. That is, if there is a channel that you particularly like and you want to support it, you will only have to subscribe so that they can receive a small monthly amount. Of course, you will have to manually subscribe each month to continue supporting it.
But the most interesting thing on the user side comes with the free monthly games, and it is that the service, in the same way that the Epic Games Store, Xbox Live or PS Plus give away games every month, Twitch Prime also does the same with PC players.
Advantages of having Prime Gaming
As we have mentioned, having one of these subscriptions allows you to enjoy more than one advantage in the service, so we are going to list all of them for you to take into account:
- Subscription to a Twitch channel: Subscribe to a channel and you will receive exclusive elements of that channel, with privileges in the chat itself, badges, exclusive emoticons and much more. In addition, you will collaborate financially with the channel to which you subscribe. By linking your account you will be able to subscribe to a user each month. When the period ends, you will once again have a free subscription available that you can allocate to the same or a different content creator. You choose.
- Access to free games and extra loot: Every month you will be able to download free games and a large number of extra items as loot with which you can receive add-ons and bonuses for many of your favorite games.
- Exclusive emoticons: Access a large collection of exclusive emoticons to use in chat.
- Extra color options for chat: customize the chat with the color you want thanks to the RGB adjustment sliders.
- Chat badge for Prime members only: Being Prime, your username will be accompanied by a badge that will indicate that you have the subscription.
- Store content longer: If you have made any streaming or live broadcast, the videos will remain stored for a total of 60 days instead of 14.
But the question at hand is, how can we get those free Twitch Prime games?
Link your Amazon Prime account with Prime Gaming
The secret to getting your Prime Gaming account is to link the service to your Twitch account, so we are going to show you how to do it in several steps:
- The first thing you will have to do is visit the Prime Gaming website, and locate the login button.
- You must log in with your Amazon account, and remember, this account must have an Amazon Prime subscription.
- Once you've logged in, you'll be returned to the Twitch Prime website. It will be there where you have to link your Twitch account.
- Sign in with the Twitch account you want to link and finish the process.
Your Twitch account will become Twitch Prime, so you will have access to all the advantages of the payment service, so from now on you can download all the games that are offered on a monthly basis for free.
If you do this entire process before signing up for your Amazon Prime subscription, the Amazon Prime 30-day trial will be automatically activated. For a month, you can enjoy the advantages of this membership, such as fast shipping, access to Prime Video or all the Twitch Prime features that we told you about at the beginning of this post. However, if you do not want to be charged for a full year of subscription at the end of the period, you will have to go to your Amazon profile and stop the automatic renewal of Amazon Prime, which will also cause you to lose access to Twitch features Prime like the free subscription, the games and the exclusive emoticons.
How to play Prime Gaming games
Once we have claimed the games through the Prime Gaming website, it is time for the most important thing, that is, play. To play the titles we will need a PC with Windows. At the moment, Prime Gaming not available on Mac computers. Therefore, to play on Apple computers it will be necessary to use BootCamp or virtualize Windows through VirtualBox or programs like VMWare. However, the performance of some games will be disastrous if we go that way.
The process is fairly simple. Simply, we will select the first game that we have claimed and click on 'How to play'. A small dialog will automatically appear that will inform us that we must install Amazon Games on our computer. The app works perfectly on Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Once we install the program on our PC, we will start it and we will put our Amazon login data again. Once inside, you will see that the interface is quite similar to what we already know with platforms like Epic Games or Steam. Simply, we will have to search for the titles that we want to play and we will download them. The process will take more or less time depending on the total size of the download. After a few minutes, the program will be installed and you will be able to play the game without problems.
Once you have Amazon Prime Gaming installed on your computer, you can claim new games every month from there or returning to the Prime Gaming website, whichever is more comfortable for you. Remember that the catalog is updated every month, so don't forget to take a look from time to time to look for new interesting games.
An Amazon Prime Day… of games?
In addition to the titles that regularly come to Prime Gaming as irresistible gifts (as well as add-ons and downloadable content), from time to time Promotions appear that fill our backpacks with games from our computer.
It is during Amazon Prime Day when the North Americans throw the house out the window and begin a celebration that lasts more than 20 days. And this 2022 has not been an exception.
The two discount days designated as Amazon Prime Day was celebrated in 2022 on July 12 and 13 so up to that date, we had 30 titles that we could download for free from Prime Gaming. And of them, there were some names that are really interesting.
This is the complete list:
- 10 Second Ninja X
- 8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure
- Adding Adventures
- Bang bang racing
- Clouds & Sheep 2
- Death squared
- Fatal Fury Special
- Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
- gone viral
- HUE
- Manual Samuel
- Metal Slug 2
- metal unit
- Pumped BMX Pro
- Puzzle of the Year - 10 Pack
- Rainworld
- Road Trip - 3 Pack
- Samurai Shodown II
- Serial Cleaner
- The Crow's Eye
- The darkside detective
- The King of Fighters 2000
- The King of Fighters 2002
- The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor
Free games in September 2022
For this month of September, Prime Gaming has a really interesting catalog and that celebrates the premiere of The Lord of the Rings The Rings of Power, with an extraordinary game inspired by the work of JRR Tolkien as es Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor, which you can download completely free until September 30.
But the list does not end here, look:
- Assassin's Creed Origins
- Football Manager 2022
- Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor (GOTY)
- The Dig
- Defend the Rook
- We. The Revolution
- Castle on the Coast
- Word of the Law Death Mask Collector's Edition