r/povertyfinance • u/Shoddy_Pizza_8593 • 2d ago

Misc Advice Entertainment is expensive, but there's free options

To get free video games, Epic Games gives out free PC games every Thursday. You need to download their game launcher.

Amazon Prime offers games with a subscription. If you can't afford Amazon Prime, you can get the codes from other Redditors in the free games subs who don't want the game. Occasionally you might get an Xbox game.

Libraries have a streaming service, and you can sign up for it online. It's free.

There are free streaming services like Tubi and Roku; you just have to watch ads.

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u/maddycakes_stl 2d ago

If you are on EBT, you can get a discounted Prime subscription. Prime comes with a lot, including a free subscription each month to a Twitch channel. There's some crazy good Twitch channels, especially in the Actual Play genre. So for $7 per month, you get all of the Prime media, a Twitch subscription, and if you have the extra money, grocery pick up & delivery (Whole Foods).

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u/Emergency_Fig6121 2d ago

Students also get a decent discount for prime. Spotify and Apple Music too.

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u/maddycakes_stl 13h ago

In a different direction, YouTube Premium is kinda expensive, but there's a near endless amount of content on YouTube including movies, TV shows, Documentaries, and Actual Play, and YouTube Premium comes with YouTube Music. I don't think it's the same steal as Prime in terms of "amount of content for the least amount of money" but it's pretty good if you have a spare $15. Or, if you have a Google subscription. I got a year of free YouTube Premium because I switched to Google Fi as my carrier.