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Microsoft dropped free demos for around 70 games on Tuesday, all of which are available to download as part of its Summer Game Fest Demo Event.

Running from July 21 to 27, the event allows players to try demos of games for free for the week, and a heap of these are independently developed ID@Xbox titles, so you get to try a bunch of fun stuff from teams you may not have played before.

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So, how do you get the goods? On your Xbox One dashboard, you can grab them through the Summer Demo Event section. Alternatively, you can head to the Store on your console and within the Browse Games section, you'll find the demos. They're also sitting in the Microsoft Store.

'Ephemeral Tale' is a classic dungeon adventure from Dawdling Dog. Credit: xbox / Dawdling Dog

There's a mix of multiplayer party games, RPG shooters, retro action-platformers, turn-based puzzles, and plenty more. A few that stuck out to me were the buzzed-about remake of Destroy All Humans!, cute donut factory puzzle game Freshly Frosted, and the dungeon adventure Ephemeral Tale. Also, SkateBIRD, in which you play exactly that, a bird with a tiny skateboard. If you've run out of games, or need something new to amuse your kids, here are the free demos available from Microsoft so far, with more to be added through the week:

• 9 Monkeys of Shaolin

• A Duel Hand Disaster: Trackher

• Alchemist Adventure

• Aniquilation

• Antipole DX

• Armed and Gelatinous

• Ars Fabulae

• Back to Belt

• Bite the Bullet

• Book of Adventum

• Cake Bash

• Chickens Madness

• Clea

• Cris Tales

• Curved Space

Cult classic 'Destroy All Humans!' has been remade. Credit: XBOX / ‪THQ Nordic‬

• Dandy Ace

• Darkestville Castle

• Deleveled

• Destroy All Humans!

• Doodle God: Crime City

• Dungeon and Gravestone

• Dungeon Scavenger Inferno

• Ephemeral Tale

• Flowing Lights

• Fractal Space

• Freshly Frosted

• Galacide

• Gauntlet Force

• Genesis Noir

'Genesis Noir' is a love triangle adventure from Fellow Traveller. Credit: xbox / Fellow Traveller

• Haven

• Helheim Hassle

• Hellpoint Demo: The Thespian Feast

• Kaze and the Wild Masks

• Klang 2

• Knight Squad 2

• Kova: AlphaLink

• KungFu Kickball

• Long Ago: A Puzzle Tale

• Lost Wing

• Mars Power Industries Deluxe

• Mayhem Brawler

• Momentus

• Nine Witches: Family Disruption

'Freshly Frosted' is a puzzle game in a donut factory. Cute. Credit: xbox / ‪The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild

• OkunoKA Madness

• PHOGS!

• Pixel Skater

• Ponpu

• Projection: First Light

• Raji: An Ancient Epic

• Road to Guangdong

• Rover Wars: Battle for Mars

• Sail Forth

• ScourgeBringer

• Seasons of the Samurai

• SkateBIRD

• Skycadia

• Solaroids: Prologue

In 'SkateBIRD' you play exactly that. LOOK AT IT. Credit: xbox / Glass Bottom Games

• Space Otter Charlie

• Swimsanity!

• Swim Out

• Tesla Force

• The Ambassador: Fractured Timelines

• The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav

• The Dark Eye: Memoria

• The Last Cube

• The Vale: Shadow of the Crown

• Tribble Troubles

• Unspottable

• WarriOrb: Prologue

• Welcome to Elk

• YesterMorrow

'Swim Out' is a strategic poolside puzzle game from Lozange Lab and it's PRETTY. Credit: XBOX. / LOZANGE LAB

It's a relatively big week for Xbox, with Microsoft hosting an online event to announce games for the Xbox Series X on Thursday from 8 a.m. PT.

SEE ALSO: I'm playing video games like a caveman during the pandemic. It rules.

Until then, give these free games a whirl — if you don't like 'em, you didn't buy 'em.

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