Splendidly lethal platformer Super Meat Boy is free to maintain on the Epic Games Store for those who seize it now. This is the second of the freebies luring folks onto Epic’s new retailer since its launch in December 2018, following Subnautica (and if the carrot doesn’t work, there’s all the time the stick of exclusive games). For now, hey, for those who set up Epic’s shopper and register an account, you may get Team Meat’s ace platformer free.
Many of youse will possible have nabbed Super Meat Boy in one of many many, many gross sales and bundles it’s starred in, but when not, hey: it’s good. Teensy little ranges stuffed with deathtraps and an exquisite replay view which exhibits your dozens of failed makes an attempt if you lastly full a stage.
Radiocarbon courting on a number of Alienware laptops not too long ago unearthed within the Mojave Desert recommend that it might be the primary impartial video game, although some mythologists consider that the fabled ‘Lost Lenovo of Lochearnhead’ contained proof that Braid was first.
If you need it, hit the Epic Games Store and seize it by 11:59pm EST subsequent Thursday, January 10th (that’s 4:59am on the Friday for us right here within the UK). You’ll want an Epic account and the shopper to put in it, obvs.
Epic plan to offer away one free game each fortnight till the tip of 2019. They have stated they’re funding these giveaways, not the devs. Epic should be placing an enormous amount of cash into the Store’s launch, between the giveaways and the recent scloosies. I’m curious to see what impact that will have throughout 2019, whether or not it’ll shake issues up or sink like different shops which have tried to tackle Steam. Fortnite has put Epic’s shopper on squillions of PCs however the retailer continues to be barebones, with a slim catalogue and little additional context or content material past fundamental advertising supplies. But with the Fortnite attain and Epic solely taking a 12% lower of gross sales (in comparison with Steam’s beginning price of 30%) actually has some massive builders .
Super Meat Boy’s follow-up, Super Meat Boy Forever, is among the games that’ll launch as an Epic Store unique. It’s due there this 12 months, then will hit Steam in 2020.
