Crikey, it’s all gotten somewhat ugly on the Epic Games retailer this week. Co-op slaughter-fest Killing Floor 2 makes its debut on the storefront at present, heading up this week’s free lineup alongside carceral break-out The Escapists 2 and lonely spacefarer Lifeless Planet. You know the drill – these three are free to seize ’til subsequent Thursday, at which level they’ll get replaced by high-fantasy dungeon crawler Torchlight 2
Oh, we do love a little bit of Killing Floor 2, don’t we? Tripwire Interactive’s gory horde ’em up continues to be one of our favourite co-op games on PC, a correct grindhouse horde mode that has you beasting your manner by all method of zombies, mutants, and cyborg tyrants. While it’s getting on a bit, the devs are nonetheless maintaining the game up to date with new occasions like final month’s tropical romp Perilous Plunder.
Sticking collectively’s the identify of the game in Killing Floor – and to verify a brand new retailer doesn’t fragment the social gathering, Tripwire have made certain that rookies on Epic can play with their veteran Steam colleagues with full cross-play. There’ll be an replace to the Steam model at present, including a “Steam to EGS” choice on the principle menu to allow you to pair up together with your cross-platform buddies.
Killing Floor 2 can be joined this week by Lifeless Planet, a hauntingly lonely game a few Soviet cosmonaut trapped lightyears away from Earth. “Every tone it attempts is struck with confidence and talent,” Ben Barrett wrote in his Lifeless Planet review, “from creeping horror to outright terror to reflective serenity. Give it a moment and you’ll be stuck with it until you’re finished.”
Rounding out the trio is sandbox-ey jail escape sim The Escapists 2. All three will be grabbed on the Epic Games Store till this time subsequent week, at which level Torchlight 2 will take their place.
