Occupying two very completely different spots on the spectrum of digital feelings, Abzû and The End Is Nigh are the most recent games being given away free on the Epic Games Store. Abzû is a peaceful and vibrant undersea journey with plenty of fairly sealife to gawp at. The End Is Nigh is a platformer with lots of upon lots of of deaths awaiting you.
Hit the Epic Games Store to seize the pair. That’s £26 of game free of charge. You’ll want an Epic account to nab ’em, obvs, and Epic’s Launcher software program to obtain. Epic pay for these giveaways to lure individuals onto their subpar Store, so it’s their pockets you’ll take cash from.
“Abzû is a beautiful game. It’s a game stuffed with fish and colour and movement and music. I love those things. Sometimes you feel like you’re actually inside an episode of Blue Planet (I recorded the video above during one such moment),” pricey Pip mentioned in our Abzû review. “But I don’t love wrestling for control of an experience which feels expansive one moment and restrictive or unpredictable the next.”
We’ve had oh a lot extra to say about Giant Squid’s seatour. Various of us across the treehouse have referred to as it one of many best nonviolent games, one of many most relaxing games, a great game for busy people, a game to play with your kids… I believe they prefer it.
“I can’t talk about The End Is Nigh without comparing it to Super Meat Boy because in so many ways it feels like a conscious alternative to some of the defining properties of that rapid, colourful, classic game,” our Graham mentioned about Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel’s platformer in his The End Is Nigh review. “But measured on its own qualities, The End Is Nigh is a good game, but not a memorable one.”
As is the way in which of Epic giveaways, these are free for one week, till Thursday the 12th. After that, the subsequent freebie shall be Conarium, a “Lovecraftian” horror game set on an Antarctic base, from September 12-19th.
