For Honor and Alan Wake are free on the Epic Games Store this week

Two Windows PC games are free at the Epic Games Store during the first week of August: For Honor and Alan Wake.

This is the second week in a row that Epic has offered two titles through its free weekly game program. Last week it was Moonlighter and This War of Mine. Epic clarified the reasoning behind the two free games in a blog post, explaining that when it offers a free M-rated title, parental controls may prevent some users from picking it up. By offering an E-rated or T-rated game as well, it ensures that younger players can still take advantage of the program.

In Ubisoft’s medieval action game For Honor, players choose a faction: Knights, Vikings, Samurai or WuLin. Our review pointed out that, despite the third-person view and melee weapons, For Honor plays more like a fighting game than a hack-and-slash adventure. There is a campaign mode, but the game is at its best in multiplayer combat.

Alan Wake, meanwhile, is a story-driven mystery thriller about an author investigating his wife’s disappearance. It’s one of Polygon’s essential backward-compatible Xbox 360 games, thanks to its Lost-inspired episodic structure and Twin Peaks-style mystery.

For Honor and Alan Wake will be free at the Epic Games Store from Aug. 2-9. They will be replaced by 3D puzzle game Gnog.