Free DLC and add-ons
Skins, packs and expansions. Each one needs its base game installed.
How it works
All of this needs the base game
Every item on this page is an add-on. A free skin pack for a game you do not own is a line in your library that will not launch.
That is the whole reason DLC sits on its own page instead of cluttering the giveaway board. It is the most common way people waste a click on a free listing.
Mostly cosmetics, occasionally something real
The bulk of it is skins, weapon finishes and vehicle liveries. Changes how something looks and nothing else. Every so often a publisher hands over an actual expansion or mission pack, and that is worth stopping for.
Gift packs and in-game currency usually arrive as keys with their own expiry, redeemed inside the game instead of on the store page. The deadline shown here and the deadline on the key are not always the same date.
Why there is so much of it
Free DLC is marketing. A skin costs the publisher nothing to mint and pulls lapsed players back for a season.
That is not a reason to skip it. It does explain why this is the busiest page on the site and the least consequential.