The offers deluge begins, and GOG’s winter sale opens with free goodies. Swoop on all the way down to the giveaway page here and you’ll seize Full Throttle Remastered, Double Fine’s polished-up model of the basic short-but-sweet Lucasarts journey. While John wasn’t offered on its new (and optionally available) artwork, he nonetheless had lots of lovely things to say about it in his review. It was well worth the cash then, and it’s completely value your time now. There’s another, near-free goodies to snag and a while restricted offers too, and the sale runs till January third. Full Throttle is accessible free for its first 48 hours – see my choose of the day beneath.
While there’s lots discounted proper now, the perfect offers appear to be time-limited, with a brand new set each 24 hours. It’s attention-grabbing to see GOG working with a sale format that Steam has largely deserted, nevertheless it most likely works to their benefit if it will get eyes on the shop on daily basis. Full Throttle isn’t the one perk, however the others do require spending slightly cash. Spending something within the sale will get you 1996 DOS goodie Fantasy General, a hex-based technique game. Spending £11.79/$15 nets you roguelike-ish area shooter Everspace, and its expansion prices £3.69/€5.09/$5.78.
Of the present crop, my pick-of-the-day can be Tower Of Time by Event Horizon for £5.89/€6.29/$7.15. An offbeat mega-dungeon fashion RPG with an MMO/MOBA-inspired fight engine. You management your complete social gathering in real-time tactical fights with slow-mo for planning. Juggling cooldowns and positions round cowl to maintain your crew within the battle throughout lengthy multi-wave battles. What its fight animations lack in oomph, it makes up for in sensible techniques and good subterranean views. John really liked it even in early access, and it’s been polished and refined lots since then.
GOG have additionally opened up their GOG Connect page once more, with a handful extra games that you may copy over to your GOG account in DRM-free type in the event you already personal them on Steam. Not an excessive amount of on this spherical, nevertheless it does embody Harebrained Schemes’s reasonably good Shadowrun trilogy, all games which I did beforehand solely personal on Steam. Can’t complain about that.
GOG’s winter sale is dwell now and runs till January third. Full Throttle Remastered is free here for the subsequent couple days.
