So lengthy, Civilization. The newest freebie over on the Epic Games Store is Borderlands: The Handsome Collection, a moderately good-looking pairing of two Borderlands games to blast your manner by means of with out dropping a penny. But Epic’s feeling beneficiant this week, and at present additionally marks the shock launch of dirty graffiti sandbox Sludge Life, and this filthy bonus goes free for fairly a bit longer than every week.
You know what Borderlands is, proper? Colourful loot-shooter, billions of weapons, Mad Max bandits and a heaping dose of fart jokes? The Handsome Collection consists of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, an odd spin-off that permits you to blast monsters in low gravity as a tiny loud-mouthed robotic.
While it’s lacking that awkward first entry and final yr’s Borderlands 3, these are some properly good shooters for burying your self in weapons over a weekend or two. As this week’s free game, The Handsome Collection is free to maintain on the Epic Games Store till the wheel ticks over subsequent Thursday. Once once more, subsequent week’s Epic freebie is being stored a thriller.
It’s not like at present didn’t have its personal share of surprises, thoughts. Beyond Borderlands, the Epic Store additionally noticed the stealth launch of Sludge Life, with Devolver abruptly saying that the notably on-brand slime sandbox is out, totally free, this afternoon.
The work of High Hell developer Terri Vellman, Sludge Life is a grime-soaked sandbox with a vibe you can practically taste. As graffiti artist Ghost, you’re set free on this depressing island to do as you see match. Tag partitions ’til you’re the highest vandal on the town, crash into company buildings and actually “stick it to the man”, or take neat snaps of oddballs, strangers, and anatomically-incorrect felines.
There is some extent to all of it, I’m led to imagine. But Sludge Life is a world that’s largely curious about letting you scrub beneath the floor, downloading games-within-games in your busted previous laptop computer as you paraglide previous an enormous child.
Backed by some suitably dirty beats from Enter The Gungeon composer Doseone, Sludge Life appears to be like a splendidly filthy world to poke and prod at. It’s additionally sticking round as a freebie a good bit longer than Bunkerlads. Download Sludge Life on the Epic Games Store at any level ’til this time subsequent yr, and it’s yours to maintain.
