Helpful Tool Estimates When Games Will Be Free on PS Plus, Game Pass, and EGS

An independent creator has released a tool that predicts when games will come to PlayStation Plus, Xbox Game Pass, and the Epic Games Store. The program, which is completely free to use and browser-based, incorporates wide swaths of data to return predictive timeframes for thousands of titles, making it a fun, and potentially helpful, tool for gamers tracking subscription services like PlayStation Plus.

As convenient as they can be, games-on-demand services can also be quite fickle. Titles will launch on these platforms before being pulled, sometimes just a few months later, and it can also be frustrating to purchase a game only to find it sitting atop the next Game Pass or PS Plus monthly refresh. It’s no surprise, then, that gamers attempt to beat the system with predictions, and these are often far from haphazard: a look at something like the PlayStation Plus subreddit will reveal hundreds of gamers justifying various predictions with past trends, company behavior, and game-by-game sales performance, attempting to pinpoint the rhyme and reason behind this often unpredictable service.

Redditor Releases Free, Interactive PS Plus, Game Pass, and EGS Predictive Model

On November 12, 2025, Reddit user lyndonguitar made a post detailing their game-prediction project. The program, which runs in a browser and is ostensibly called Epic Game Pass When, “uses python logic and models trained on historical [sic] giveaway data from 2010 to 2025 to give estimates on when games might drop for free.” Publisher history, previous availability on a given subscription platform, and Metacritic data are all specifically referenced by lyndonguitar as key factors the program incorporates.

Of course, the tool is far from foolproof, and lyndonguitar even admits that it’s meant to be used more for entertainment than actual research purposes. To this point, the creator mentions that Epic Game Pass When uses the RAWG.io API to source its data, and since this API is crowdsourced, it’s liable to be faulty or incomplete. For instance, at the time of writing, if one were to search for Palworld‘s PS Plus availability, Epic Game Pass When will claim that the game simply isn’t on PlayStation—something that’s observably false.

Imperfect data and inherently finicky predictive reasoning aside, Epic Game Pass When provides valuable insight into how subscription platforms like Game Pass have recontextualized gaming discourse. While the exact reasons behind a game coming to one of these services are usually shielded from the public, such decisions are probably not made randomly: there’s a method to the madness, and striving to define it can lead to a better understanding of today’s ever-evolving games market.