The newest game giveaway on the Epic Games Store is Surviving Mars, 2018’s city-builder about elevating Martian colonies from mud. Yes, completely this course of includes a lot of potatoes. The Space Race enlargement is free too, as is the wee musical Marsvision Song Contest DLC (sadly simply extra soundtrack songs, not an precise contest – I want!). You’ve obtained one week to get onboard earlier than the freebies blast off with out you.
Surviving Mars is fairly good enjoyable, in keeping with our former Alec (RPS in peace) together with his Surviving Mars review at launch. He stated it “has broadly done its job – to hook me deeply into its construction and maintenance, rather than to repel me with jank and grind, as is forever a risk with a game of this sort.” A yr later, after some updates and add-ons, our new boy Nate reviewed the Green Planet expansion and declared it “the game Surviving Mars should have been in the first place.” No, Green Planet isn’t included within the giveaway.
It’s made by Haemimont Games (the gang behind Tropico three by way of 5) and printed by Paradox.
Surviving Mars and people two add-ons are free for keepsies if you happen to grab them on the Epic Games Store by Thursday the 17th. (Do additionally seize the Mysteries Resupply Pack, which has all the time been free however is awkwardly a separate DLC pack as a result of causes.)
Paradox this week announced a post-apocalyptic follow-up, Surviving The Aftermath. We don’t know a lot of something about that proper now, although it’s not arduous to think about. Paradox are attributable to announce extra particulars on October 19th.
The subsequent weekly freebie, from October 17th, can be a double-bill of Observer and Alan Wake’s American Nightmare. Epic pay for these freebies, by the best way, so markers do get money if you happen to declare them.
