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Offworld Trading Company and Gonner free on Epic now, A Short Hike next weekLose your head but not your profits
Lose your head but not your profits
Folks still like freebies ‘round these parts, right? Hope so, because there’s a pretty kickin’ lineup of games to snatch on the Epic Games Store over the next week.Offworld Trading CompanyandGonnerare both free right now. That’s one capitalism strategy simulator and one procedurally generated platformer for your library. Both are free until March 12th, at which point Epic roll out three more free games:A Short Hike,Mutazione, andAnodyne 2: Return To Dust.
Offworld Trading Companyis one of thebest strategy games on PC, where the RPS folk say it’s a game that “slots neatly into a genre but doesn’t seem to follow many–if any–of the established rules of that genre.” It’s all about profit—not combat—but you’ll compete against rival space CEOs tooth and nail regardless. A slew of numbers and information are constantly up on screen for you to track and attempt to make sense of for those of you who like playing spreadsheets masquerading as games.
Up for next week is a handful of adventuring games of various sorts.Anodyne2 is the 3D successor to 2013’s Anodyne wot was a classically pixelated Zelda-like adventure with an existential bent.Mutazione’s a sort of interactive soap opera about a young girl visiting her grandfather in monsterville and sorting out all the small town drama therein.
You can find Offworld Trading Companyhereand Gonnerhereon Epic. Snag em before Thursday the 12th for the cool price of free.
Correction: Anodyne 2: Return To Dust is one of the free games next week, not the original Anodyne.
Disclosure: Hannah Nicklin, the narrative designer and writer of Mutazione,has written for RPS.
