Costume Quest 2 is the present freebie on the Epic Games Store, supplied up as a part of their 15 days of free games. You’ve obtained till 4pm GMT/8am PT tomorrow so as to add it to your account, after which it is yours to maintain perpetually.
You can seize Costume Quest 2 right here, the place it will usually set you again £12. (Except for once they gave it away at no cost two years in the past.)
The Costume Quest sequence has a easy central conceit: what if Halloween costumes truly reworked you into regardless of the costume depicted? The reply is a simplistic RPG through which you discover a world the place sugar and costumes are usually not allowed, with loads of anticipated Double Fine appeal. Unfortunately Alec struggled with it a bit upon launch 8 years in the past, because of its fight and techniques overly acquainted from the primary game:
I pushed on previous an amazing urge to give up, as a result of by its third stage it lastly moved on from over-familiar settings and buildings to one thing an entire lot extra playful. Its story considerations time journey, Back To The Future: Part 2 is its time journey touchstone, and there is nothing in any respect unsuitable with that. I do not need to spoil all of the enjoyable, in fact, however by arising with the concept that sweet and costumes are outlawed and enjoying with a 1984-but-with-dentistry theme, it grants extra respiratory room to a trick or deal with idea that had felt drained virtually from the second Costume Quest 2 started.
There’s a great likelihood that if you performed the primary game that it was 12 years in the past, which possibly makes it much less seemingly these techniques can be overly acquainted to you.
Epic are providing 15 free games as a part of their winter sale. They kicked off the freebies with Bloons TD 6, a beneficiant tower protection ’em up that is among the finest rated games on Steam. The reductions within the sale are fairly first rate, too, and embrace 25% off vouchers for all games.