It’s freebie o’clock on the Epic Games Store as soon as once more. This week’s a correct bonanza, too. Between A Short Hike, Anodyne 2: Return to Dust and Mutazione, there’s no scarcity of acquainted and fantastical indie worlds to poke round in. All three are free so as to add to your library for good ’til March 19th, after they’ll be slapped again to full worth to make method for The Stanley Parable and Watch Dogs.
While we’re all locked in our homes over a sure viral outbreak, a few of you is likely to be hankering for the good outside greater than traditional. Thankfully, A Short Hike is the primary of this week’s free games. Beyond providing you with a stunning breadth of mountainside to hike, climb and glide throughout, it may also treatment these lonesome blues. A Short Hike’s park can be jam-packed with pretty strangers, every with their very own little errands to run.
Tangentially, this makes it the best Animal Crossing game this side of New Horizons based on Katherine (sorry, non-supporters).
It’s not the one world to potter spherical this week, both. Anodyne 2: Return to Dust joins in with Epic’s freebies, an adventure-RPG about cleansing up a beautiful N64-ish world. It’s splendidly weird, letting you soar into individuals’s minds through the primary game’s SNES-inspired pixellated worlds. Sometimes you’ll be able to flip right into a automotive, and that’s okay.
Epic’s ultimate providing this week is horticultural cleaning soap opera Mutazione. It’s a game about amassing musical little potted crops in your backyard, sure, nevertheless it’s additionally a deeply calming game about small-town gossip on an odd ol’ island. Despite being fairly whimsical in its setting, Alice Bee discovered it remarkably relatable in her Mutazione review.
“It reminds me a lot of Night In The Woods. The strong feeling of place, the feeling of a place that’s at odds with itself, and the tension of younger residents who are starting to feel the pull of elsewhere, but don’t really have a way to respond to it.”
You can decide up A Short Hike, Anodyne 2 and Mutazione at no cost on Epic through the hyperlinks I simply slapped on their names. Hypertext, eh? Amazing stuff.
As traditional, these freebies can be kicking round ’til Epic snap the free game ticker over subsequent Thursday. Your choices subsequent week are first-person workplace rambler The Stanley Parable and open-world hackathon Watch Dogs.
Disclosure: Hannah Nicklin, studio and narrative lead at Mutazione developer Die Gute Fabrik, has written for us prior to now.
