Coming to our fourth week of Friday’s Free Games, we’re got some quality games to enjoy! Two of them have really great art styles with the hand-drawn RPG Vollema and the souls-like action of Remanence!
This time we have these different categories available to choose from,
Adventure
This one is hard to pin down, but it seems closest to a sci-fi space exploration choose-your-own adventure story with graphical elements. You play as the crew’s AI, or I guess, computer? Pretty unique!
This is a first-person exploration game where you solve puzzles in the rooms of a gallery based on artwork you see. Neat idea, and nice vibes from the trailer!
A point & click adventure about a girl that is trying to get to her father in Havana after the death of her mother. The graphics are in a hand-drawn style, and it seems like it is going to pull at some heartstrings if the trailer is any indication.
RPG
If you want a cute and endearing hack and slash game with RPG elements, this seems to be a good choice! Currently free on the Epic Games Store.
An incredible looking hand-drawn RPG with color changing as a major theme or mechanic. The battle system involves pattern memorization, and the story is reported to be really impressive.
Action
A top-down shooter where you play as a duck facing off against waves of enemies. Includes elements of bullet hell and purchasable upgrades.
A sweet looking shooting game where you use instruments to attack and everything plays out in time with the music. Although the art style seems simple, I like it!
A souls-like action game with a very cool art style. I enjoyed the music and art direction from the trailer, and the ability to knock projectiles back at enemies with your sword was a cool touch.
An easy side-view Run ‘n Gun with inventory management; the items in your backpack take up space like they are Tetris pieces. Sounds easy and fun. Reviewers were able to beat it in a couple tries.
A game inspired by early 80’s arcade games with aspects of dodging obstacles and picking up items to increase your abilities. It seems to be all over the place. Sometimes you are underwater, other times you are moving a jewel through a maze with lava chasing you, or you are the sun moving around in space. Intriguing.
Platforming
A super cute puzzle platformer that mixes up 2D and 3D gameplay modes in one game. Looks fun!
A very small metroidvania with each screen being only 64 x 64 pixels in size. While not technically impressive, I want to play it!
I could try to describe this myself, but the game’s sale page does it better than I ever could. Here it is, “Plangman is an Apple II-inspired hangman platformer. Take the word-guessing of Wheel of Fortune, mix in Lode Runner-style puzzle platforming, add the storytelling of a text adventure, throw in a dash of physics, and–voila!–you have Plangman.”
Other
A collection of multiple short retro horror games. The reviews like this one. Reviewers tend to like at least three of the titles. Seems cool if you’re into horror!
A horror visual novel. I like the pixel art style. It reminds me of the horror visual novels of Nikita Kryukov. There aren’t many reviews of it yet, but the ones that are there are quite enthusiastic!
Night is Coming – Wrath of the Woods
A third-person RTS game with resource management and battles against monster with a Slavic theme.
This is a quiz game that is similar to Jeopardy where you try to answer questions to earn the most points against human or computer opponents. One thing that was odd is that there is not much sound in the game. It clearly uses AI at times, but it is also rated Very Positive. Seems to be very popular with Russians.
Summary
I actually felt that this week had a pretty strong selection of titles! Not only were there two good looking Epic Games Store titles, but the action titles had a bit more diversity than just hack and slash, which is the most common genre under the action umbrella. The adventure and RPG games had some really neat art styles as well. Although horror is not my jam, I hope those who like such things enjoy what’s available in the other section as well!
Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you next week!
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