This week the Epic Store partnership with third party developers has truly made a smash hit available for free. Danish studio, Playdead, has offered their atmospheric platformer, Limbo, as the next weekly freebie, and it is available today until July25th.
If there was ever an argument that platform games had to be fast and furious with no room for an enthralling atmosphere, Limbo would smash it out of the ballpark. This game took the indie scene by storm as it combined excellence in physics-based, puzzle solving, with rock-solid platforming gameplay.
All of this was wrapped up in one of the most entrancing and haunting worlds ever depicted in gaming without relying on fancy, new GPU technology (developers take note). Limbo not only inspired a sequel (Inside), it also set a new standard for games like Little Nightmares that would try to explore this newfound frontier of platform games.
Check it out here, or fire up your Epic Store client.
Trust me, you need to play this. Next week, Moonlighter and This War of Mine will replace Limbo as the next, available free games, and we will make sure to give you a heads up.
Enjoy!
Pieter hails all the way from the tip of southern Africa and suffers from serious PC technophilia. Therapists say it is incurable. Now he has to remind himself constantly that gaming doesn’t count as a religion even if DRM is the devil. Thankfully, writing reviews sometimes helps with the worst symptoms.
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Quite nice game, but I prefer Inside.
That game is amazing!
Still waiting for a significant discount on Inside.
Limbo free today, Borderlands Free soon.
#EpicFail
Excellent.
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It’s a shame, because Limbo and This War of Mine really are fantastic games.
Man I wish they did this on Steam or GOG.
Cutting your nose off to spite your face. Smart move.
How is getting a free game harmful?
No one said it was. This genius though is among the moron brigade that has an Epic hate b*ner for the Epic Store because reasons.
You appear somewhat triggered.
I already had the Epic client (for the new Unreal Tournament), and I like free games. Most of the whining is hypocritical, Valve has kept its games exclusive to Steam since its inception, and its users are only renting.
I’m not worried about Epic’s bleeding cash to rent time-limited exclusives; If Epic’s store survives, the competition can only benefit the consumer.
Valve has had its games exclusive to Steam since its inception, they can, at any moment, deny a customer access to his library, and they had become a de facto monopoly. They’re not doing consumers any favors.
GOG is the only real consumer-oriented PC game store. They’re worth defending.
Ask a junkie if they thought there first free hit was harmful. Idiots are so easily roped in. In Epic’s case, it’s your consumer choice that you are throwing away.
In Epic’s case, it’s your consumer choice that you are throwing away.
The idea that having another choice is throwing away your choice is an emotional position, not a rational one.
That is possibly the worst use of that analogy that I’ve ever seen.
GOG does give away games on occasion, just not weekly.
Both of them were Free on Steam a year ago or so, in case of Limbo, it you have it on Steam you can get it on GOG as well, don’t know if that works with TWoM.
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If they’re fantastic then buy them.
I already have on Steam
at this point i’m certain that even free blowj*bs wouldn’t convince me to at least consider installing epic’s launcher.
I would do it for a couple of free blowj*bs. And then uninstalled it soon after! WIN WIN! 😀
their blowj*b offer will be performed by mister swiney exclusively.
Agree, it’s an awesome game. Go get it and stop all that BS about Epic Store. They ar doing WONDERS for the devs and us!
I love what Tim are doing here. F*CK that FAT Gabe at STEAM!
You sure love Timmy Tencent and his filthy exclusives?
Please explain yourself: what kind of wonders is Tim doing for us by bribing devs and publishers for exclusivity? All I see is less choice, less features and higher prices for us as consumers.
epic is killing it with these free games. not to mention the awesome fortnite stw update yesterday
The only thing Epic is killing is pc gaming with their annoying exclusivity deals.
epic be like : steam dont give enough money to devs lets show them that we care about the devs
Also epic : releases games for free………
Everything is free on the anti-consumer Epic store.
Epic, make piracy great again.