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Cutesy Halloween adventure Costume Quest 2 is free on EpicA spooky sequel giveaway
A spooky sequel giveaway
Starting off our spine-tingling sequel giveaway,Costume Quest 2is the sequel to Double Fine’s adorable adventure-puzzler - one where kids find their home-made costumes turn ‘em into proper super-powered robots ‘n’ werewolves and such. If you thought “hey, that premise sounds like a decent kids cartoon, especially if you got theAdventure Timefolks to run the show”, then… thatsure did happen, yeah.
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Alec (RPS-in-peace) had a tough time loving the game in hisCostume Quest 2 review. But he did enjoy it, in spite of repetitive combat, overlong animations, and a general sense that the sequel is treading water after the “bold experimentation” of its predecessor.
“Again though, I ended up enjoying myself. CQ2 found its way back to the easy charm of CQ1 eventually, and once again the dialogue ends skating around the more wholesome edges ofPsychonauts’. I couldn’t ever quite relish the combat, but I did want to see what visual ideas CQ2 would throw at me next. It starts off looking, well, a bit cheap, but the environments steadily become more ambitious and the dialogue sparkier.”
Layers Of Fear 2, meanwhile, is another Bloober Team jumpscare ‘em up that frustrated contributor Khee Hoon Chanin her review. Unsettling, even inventive at times, it nevertheless manages to stumble hard into the tired well of mental illness the genre so frequently pulls from. Ah, well, at least it seems to have some bloody terrifying mannequins.
Costume Quest 2 and Layers Of Fear are free to keep over on theEpic Games Storeuntil this time next Thursday. After that, the hauntings continue with cinematic flair throughGhostbusters: The VideogameandBlair Witch.
Looking for more free games? Read our round-up of thelatest free games on the Epic Games Store, as well as our list of thebest free PC gamesyou can play today. Want to take your free Epic games on the go? Then here’show to install the Epic Games launcher on your Steam Deck.
