Epic is on a sci-fi kick this month. Star Wars is live; next week's free game is Galactic Civilizations III, a grand strategy 4X space game. Exploring, colonizing worlds, etc.
Galactic Civilizations III: Jan. 21 to Jan. 28
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Epic is on a sci-fi kick this month. Star Wars is live; next week's free game is Galactic Civilizations III, a grand strategy 4X space game. Exploring, colonizing worlds, etc.
Galactic Civilizations III: Jan. 21 to Jan. 28
For some reason Epic added Metro Last Light Redux to their free game lineup this week. The offer ends on February 11.
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Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition - Feb 11-18
For the King - Feb 11-18
Rage 2 - Feb 18-25
Absolute Drift: Zen Edition - Feb 18-25
Halcyon 6 is an indie space strategy/rpg game with sprite based graphics. Rage 2 is an open world shooter that is apparently only fun for a couple of hours, then overstays its welcome.
Black Desert Online is "free" on Steam until March 10th. The game is usually only $10 and heavily monetized with a various assortment of microtransactions, which you still have to pay for. You could always just mess with the character creator and leave the rest alone, if you have that itch.
The Epic game this week is Sunless Sea, a roguelike about exploring oceans and trying to make it back to port in a kind of lovecraftian horror world.
Ratchet & Clank is currently free on the PS4 (via the Playstation website) as part of their Play at Home campaign - free to download/keep until 1 Apr21. May be more titles available with this campaign over the next few months
Ratchet and Clank promotion is ending soon. I didn't like it as much as the PS3 ones but it's still worth playing.
I'm not sure why they have this big initiative now, but they are continuing the free games thing for a few more months. The next big one is going to be Horizon: Zero Dawn but there are several others being offered as well.
Starting March 25th:
Abzu
Enter the Gungeon
Rez Infinite
Subnautica
The Witness
Astro Bot Rescue Mission
Moss
Thumper
Paper Beasts
April 19th:
Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition
Epic Game Store is doing another one of their coupon sales. To coincide with the sale the next few free games are mystery games that will not be revealed until their offer is live. Last year they gave away GTA5 during a similar promotion.
The first free mystery game is NBA2K21.
The free Epic mystery game this week is Among Us. A popular game that usually goes for $5 on PC and is free on mobile. Sure why not.
Among Us has been really popular with streamers, and it was the game that AOC played when she did the charity stream a short time back.
This week's free "mystery game" on Epic is Frostpunk. A kind of strategy game about managing one of the last human settlements after the world freezes over. I didn't like it as much as I thoguht it would but its still a neat game if you like the setting or genre.
I think it's star has fallen a bit, but yeah this game blew up pretty big for awhile.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
I bought Frostpunk when it came out, and for a free game, I would definitely grab it.
It's not the best game I ever played, but I liked it enough to play through the base campaign, and I felt I got my moneys worth, even if I haven't been back playing some of the other added content.
Epic's last free mystery game is Control from Remedy. The game takes place inside the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Control, an agency tasked with cataloguing and securing oddities and mysteries. It plays like a third person shooter with special powers and is generally pretty good.
Next week's free games include Overcooked 2, a fun and high tension cooking game. It's designed with co-op in mind, but I had fun with it in single player as well.
Reminder that Overcooked 2 is free this week on Epic.
Next week they are giving Sonic Mania away. This is a classic 2D callback made by a team of fans that ended up being more faithful and better received than the games Sega itself has been making.
A Plague Tale: Innocence is free on the Epic Game Store from August 5 - August 12.
I've mentioned it a few times in other threads. It's about a girl trying to protect her brother and escape Inquisition soldiers during the bubonic plague in France. It's real good.
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Rebel Galaxy - Now - August 19
Void Bastards - August 19 - August 26
Yooka-Laylee - August 19 - August 26
I've talked about Rebel Galaxy before. It's a space sim with a more casual pace/scale. It's also unique in that combat plays out like a naval sim instead of having complete 3D movement in space. Line up for broadsides and all that.
Void Bastards is a roguelike first person shooter. Roguelikes being the genre in which after you die you restart a new run and the better you do the more stuff you unlock for your next attempt. It's also got elements of FTL, as you are stranded in space and have to play a risk vs reward game of acquiring new resources to advance. Don't sleep on it, it's good.
Yooka-Laylee is one of the more infamous kickstarters. This was meant to be kind of a spiritual successor to the Banjo Kazooie 3D action platformer games but was not received very well.
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Nioh: The Complete Collection - Now - September 16
Sheltered - Now - September 16
Speed Brawl - September 16 - September 23
Tharsis - September 16 - September 23
This bump is courtesy of Nioh. I talk this game up a lot whenever a new version comes out. It's a little hard to sum up concisely as it borrows systems from several other games. The oversimplification is to call it Japanese Dark Souls, but I don't think this is really that accurate.
Japanese historical setting. You drop your experience if you die without spending it like in Dark Souls. Unlike Dark Souls there is no open world, but instead a series of missions that you eventually replay on harder difficulties. It has a similarly methodical pace to combat, but feels like its own thing (to me). There are a set number of weapon types with their own movesets, and on top of that you can switch between high, medium, and low stances. Loot system like in the various Destiny type games.
Look, I don't know how to sell it, but it's very good. If you like difficult action/rpgs then you should get this game.
Tharsis is kind of neat too. I don't remember if I liked it or not but I was glad to play it. It's kind of a astronaut space station game where things constantly go wrong and you have to roll dice to see if you succeed in fixing things. Been awhile since I played it.
What's this? An update that isn't for something on the Epic Game Store?
Amazon Prime Gaming (Twitch) gives away free junk for popular online games and sometimes gives away free games themselves. They've got three standouts next month.
Control
Dragon Age Inquisition
Rise of the Tomb Raider
And another non Epic freebie - Ubisoft have Assassin's Creed Chronicles Trilogy for free as part of their 35th anniversary sale at https://register.ubisoft.com/ac-chronicles/en-GB
Steam and GOG have Steamworld Dig 2 for free as well until Nov 11. On top of that the entire franchise seems to be on sale for 60-80% off. Steamworld Dig is a platformer where you control a robot miner/adventurer. You upgrade your abilities and such by mining gems and such. Other games in the franchise include a turn based tactics/strategy game and a card based rpg.
Meanwhile back at Epic: The Tiny Tina Borderlands DLC that was the progenitor of the upcoming fantasy Borderlands game has been spun off as a stand alone title being sold for $10, but it's free on Epic until November 16. I don't know how well it holds up, but this was one of the more fun and creative DLCs for Borderlands 2.
Both GoG and Epic Game Store will be giving away free daily games this year. GoG has already started and today's game is Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. I believe it's a turn based strategy but I haven't played it.
I think Epic's starts next week. It is currently giving Prison Architect and Godfall away as part of their weekly free games.