As others have said, there are games that can be run without the launcher. I even tested a few in a computer that never had Prime Gaming installed and they worked, too.

And besides that, some games even include ROMs, which can be played anywhere you want, as long as you have a way to play them (e.g. emulators).

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Worth noting this list is likely outdated since more games have been added since then.

Thanks. I'm bombarded with 'Subscribe to Prime for free' crap every time I use Amazon. I'm tempted to accept just to shut them up. I might as well get a couple of games out of it.

October Prime Games
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Star Wars: Squadrons (Origin)
Ghostrunner (GoG)

Whiskey & Zombies: Great Southern Zombie Escape (Amazon Games)
Wallace & Gromit: The Bogey Man (Amazon Games)
Wallace & Gromit: Muzzled! (Amazon Games)
Wallace & Gromit: The Last Resort (Amazon Games)
Wallace & Gromit: Fright of the Bumblebees (Amazon Games)
Secret Files 3 (Amazon Games)
Song of Horror Complete Edition (Amazon Games)
Tiny Robots Recharged (Amazon Games)
Blue Fire (Amazon Games)
Red Wings: Aces of the Sky (Amazon Games)

As mentioned in the other post, it also includes Alien: Isolation (activates on EGS), but that may not be available in some regions.

Edit: appears to be available now

If you got Ghostrunner from Amazon Prime, check the inbox of the email you use on GOG.
It seems that, if you got the game from Prime, they're giving you that fancy purple katana you'd get as a preorder bonus.

Also, the email includes a link to a sort of newsletter page.
Check the bottom of that page for a spoiler/teaser of the next two months of Amazon Prime.

Prime Gaming - November (Amazon)

Games are hosted by Amazon and need to be downloaded with their launcher unless noted otherwise.

Games hosted by Amazon tend to be DRM free, but may need manual confirmation. They're also only for Windows or, at most, can be emulated.

Price: varies by region

Dragon Age: Inquisition (activates on Origin)
Control Ultimate Edition (activates on GOG)
Rise of the Tomb Raider - Full Game + Bonus Content (activates on Epic Games)
Puzzle Agent 2
Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos
Secret Files: Sam Peters
BAFL - Brakes Are For Losers
Liberated
Demon Hunter 2: New Chapter

Am I correct in assuming that this includes two story DLCs that were not included in the Epic freebie? Are they worth it?

It does include them. I haven't played them, but if you've got a prime membership, then yes, they're worth getting. Reviews seem quite positive.

Amazon have really stepped up their game in recent months for the Prime giveaways.

Didn't play it either, but the GOG version should be the best version being sold currently, since there's no need to use launchers to download unlike on Epic, and the game isn't botched like on Steam.

Besides, it's super cheap. Worth dropping a few bucks for it for the price alone, if the game turns out to be just average.

Paying for games as part of a subscription is as far as I'm concerned just evil. There's no personal ownership involved, just like Netflix and streaming services.

and? you subs for a months play out 3-4 games and done

Prime Gaming is not a streaming service and neither are the games handled like in subscription based systems like EA Play/GamePass or whatever they are called. After you redeem a game, you can still play it even when you're unsubscribed. You do need to run the client, like with Steam or Epic etc., although I hear some games are not dependent on the client for playing either and are technically DRM-free (after installation through the client, that is, similar to how games on Steam can be "DRM-free").

Also, in this case, you actually get a GOG key for Control.

I'm not trying to say Prime gaming is a good thing though. It exists, and those are the rules. Just clarifying what they actually are. What you make of them and how you judge it is up to you.

Personally, I do not see it as paying for games so much as paying for a month of watching Prime Video and getting games (that I can keep) as a bonus. I certainly don't value the games as highly as ones bought from GOG. The reason why I asked whether it's worth it is that I'm not in a hurry to continue watching Prime Video *this* month (but I will, some month, eventually).

From what I read, you keep having access to Amazon's games you already claimed if you stop subscribing. And it seems most Amazon games are DRM free once downloaded, so you don't need to bother with the launcher after downloading the games.

Meanwhile, Netflix & such are mainly streaming-focused and, at most, download local files that are encrypted, have a killswitch and only work if launched through their proprietary app.

While not yet ideal, to me it feels like Amazon is the lesser devil of the two and that it is more or less at the same level of Steam when it comes to DRM and such.

edit: forgot some words

It's not ideal, but you can look at it differently with these recent promotions.

You can think of all that as a discount code for the month's GOG game, and once you stop Amazon subscription, you can still keep the games.

As an additional bonus, if you pay for one month subscription, you get access to some movies and TV shows in streamable format for 30 days.

Of course it's all business on their side, very calculated, but if you calculate it on customer's side too, it's not a bad deal at all. The only problem is the same as with Steam, you need to give some money to a business model that you don't agree with. You can also think that by redeeming the GOG code you are indirectly supporting DRM-free games. Whether that encourages Amazon to have more DRM-free content in the future is another matter, but presumably they are at some level counting how successful those GOG codes are.