Another week, one other free game on the Epic Games Store – two, even. Until subsequent Thursday you may seize the tip-top tactical motion of Mutant Year Zero: Road To Eden and the top-down zip-zoom explore-o-action of Hyper Light Drifter free of charge. MYZ is a wild freebie, each as a result of it got here out lower than one yr in the past and since it’s chuffing pretty. Our former Alec (RPS in peace) proffered loads of reward in his Mutant Year Zero review however I, a idiot, didn’t heed his knowledge till a demo got here alongside this yr to point out me oh yep, it’s nice. Now you may see that in full free of charge. Don’t be as daft as me.
Alec was jolly happy with Mutant Year Zero’s complete dealio, and particularly with the way it dealt with stealth in real-time. He stated:
“What a glorious thing it is to slowly, painstakingly, silently transform an area patrolled by half a dozen rock-hard baddies into one that’s just got one or two suddenly highly vulnerable guys left standing. Even more glorious is bungling an assassination, winding up in a thousand-degree frying pan as a result, and somehow surviving it. Your squad have/can unlock special abilities that enable you to regain control of a chaotic situation, but it’s always seat of the pants stuff, shamelessly challenging and with tall demands on your patience and precision. It’s the closest I’ve known a turn-based strategy game to feel like Dishonored or Hitman – making Mutant Year Zero a beautiful collision of gaming things I love.”
So it’s wild that it’s free already. Perhaps launching an expansion a fortnight ago has one thing to do with that.
Get MYZ over here.
Hyper Light Drifter discovered far much less of a fan in our former John (RPS in items). He gave up in frustration while reviewing it, then walked that again a bit (however solely a bit) with a mea culpa saying the game “is beautiful, slightly poorly laid out, annoying, occasionally glorious, confused, and controlled wonderfully.” Given a number of the reward I’ve heard from individuals who did click on with it, yeah gwan!
Yoink HLP this-a-way.
As ever, you’ll want an Epic account to say the games and their Launcher software program to obtain ’em. You have till Thursday the 22nd to seize these, when Fez will exchange them because the freebie.
Disclosure: Teddy Diefenbach, who labored on Hyper Light Drifter, is a pal of my former flatmate and I thinkkk as soon as crashed in our spare room for per week or two? Or did I simply tag alongside on excursions whereas he was within the metropolis? I don’t keep in mind. Did we do a ghost stroll? For some time I attempted to make everybody go on ghost walks. I’ve walked sufficient ghost walks to get recognised by one of many guides. I like ghost walks.
