Arranger and Trash Goblin are both free on the Epic Games Store starting May 7. Together that’s $40 worth of games for $0. Arranger is the one you should absolutely claim — a clever tile-sliding puzzle adventure with an 82 Metacritic score. Trash Goblin is a cozy shopkeeping sim worth playing if you like fixing virtual junk. Here’s the breakdown.
When to Claim
Both games go free on Thursday, May 7 at 11:00 AM ET and stay free until Thursday, May 14. Claim either one on the Epic Games Store and it’s yours to keep permanently. No subscription, no catch.
The current free game, Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure ($29.99 on Steam), is still available until May 7 — grab that first if you haven’t already.
Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure — Claim This One
Normally: $19.99 on Steam
Metacritic: 82 (critic), 7.6 (user)
OpenCritic: 80
Steam: 92% positive
How long: 5.5 hours main story, 8 hours to 100%
Developer: Furniture & Mattress LLC
Released: July 25, 2024
Arranger is a tile-sliding puzzle game dressed up as an RPG. You play as Jemma, who was abandoned as a baby and raised in a small town that’s tolerated her tendency to accidentally wreck everything. Her power: she can slide entire rows and columns of the world around her. So she sets off to find out where she came from.
The core mechanic sounds simple — shift a row, everything on it moves — but the game layers new ideas constantly. You’ll move NPCs to specific tiles, reroute enemies, manipulate environmental objects, and deal with obstacles that only exist in certain grid positions. Every few screens, there’s a new gimmick. Some of them only show up once or twice, which is both the game’s best quality and its biggest problem.
The puzzle design never quite pushes deep enough. Right when a mechanic starts getting interesting, Arranger moves on to something new. Thinky Games called this out in their review: the game introduces concepts, gives you a handful of basic puzzles, then abandons them before they get hard. If you want brain-bending challenges, this won’t scratch that itch.
What it does well: pacing, charm, and variety. The pixel art is clean and expressive. The 5-6 hour runtime means nothing overstays its welcome. The story is light but genuinely funny — Jemma’s hometown literally throws her a goodbye party because her powers keep destroying their stuff.
Arranger Verdict
At $0, this is an easy claim. The tile-sliding mechanic is fresh, the game looks great, and 5-6 hours of well-paced puzzle adventuring for free is hard to argue with. Don’t go in expecting hard puzzles — think of it as a chill, creative afternoon with one genuinely interesting idea executed well.
Score: 8/10 for free. Would be 7/10 at $20.
Trash Goblin — Claim It If You Like Cozy Games
Normally: $19.99 on Steam
Steam: 89% positive (Very Positive)
Metacritic: Too few reviews for a score
How long: 9 hours main story, 16 hours with extras, 22 hours completionist
Developer: Spilt Milk Studios
Released: Early Access November 2024, full release May 2025
Trash Goblin is a cozy shopkeeping sim where you play as a goblin who runs a trinket repair shop in Silver City. Your auntie sends you bags of junk. You chip away dirt blocks in a Picross-like mini-game to reveal trinkets, clean them up with tools, and sell them to customers who wander in asking for specific items.
The core loop is satisfying in that specific way that cleaning and organizing things in video games always is. The trinket models are detailed — pocket watches, old keys, mechanical toys — and the process of revealing them from dirt blocks, scrubbing them clean, and placing them on the customer counter has real tactile appeal. Bag physics are weirdly satisfying too, watching them sway as you drag them around.
You earn coins to buy better tools (better chisels, stronger cleaning agents) and upgrade your shop setup. Customers have names, personalities, and recurring storylines. There’s a narrative thread about your friend Aimon, an antique dealer with a suspicious past.
The problem: it gets repetitive. Reviews across GameGrin, DarkZero, and LadiesGamers all flag the same issue — the core loop doesn’t evolve enough. You’re doing the same clean-and-sell routine at hour 15 that you were at hour 2. Spilt Milk simplified the mechanics to appeal to a casual audience, which works for the first play session but means there’s not much depth to discover.
At 9 hours for the main story, it’s a solid weekend game. The 22-hour completionist path is only for people who genuinely enjoy the cleaning loop and want to see every customer storyline through.
Trash Goblin Verdict
If cozy games are your thing, absolutely claim this. The art is pleasant, the cleaning mechanic is oddly therapeutic, and the character writing has genuine charm. If cozy games aren’t your thing, this won’t convert you.
Score: 7/10 for free. Would be 6/10 at $20.
Bottom Line
Claim both. Arranger is the highlight — an 82 Metacritic puzzle game with a genuinely novel mechanic for exactly $0. Trash Goblin is a decent cozy time-killer. Neither has been given away on Epic before, and $40 total retail value makes this one of the better Epic freebie weeks in a while.
For more free gaming options, check out our ranked list of the best free Steam games in 2026 and our Doomblade Epic freebie writeup from a couple weeks back.
