In this week’s Friday’s Free Games, the action genre makes a good showing! It features a game reminiscent of Burnout Crash, a couple of FPSs, and an overhead arena shooter! Plus, there is good representation for casual and story-focused gamers as well.
The different categories for this week include,
Casual
If there is any game that seems to be aimed at kids this week, it’s this one! The art style is really endearing, with a lot of goofy slapstick animations to go along with the little story. It seems to be an easy adventure game and is from the Epic Games Store.
A minimalistic puzzle platformer. I’m including it here because it has a number of fans in the review section on Steam. It just doesn’t look like much.
You wouldn’t think that cleaning your dishes would ever be fun, but you might be mistaken in this casual deck-building game!
Action
After being playable while in Early Access, Clockwork Sword has now reached its big 1.0 update, featuring a multiple of upgrades from before! Because of its significant improvements, I wanted to promote it again. This is what I said about it last time: “Another week, and another isometric hack and slash action game. This one takes place in a museum filled with corrupted automata and features a fully modular weapon customization system.”
While possibly limited in arena types and weapon upgrades, Electro Havoc still seems like a cool top-down shooter that reminds me of earlier retro titles. The trailer won me over, and it’s the reason why it is in this list.
A violent FPS that is supposed to be designed like old-school games of that genre. It makes me think of Quake II or III. I have no idea if it as good as those, though.
This Wild West inspired FPS features a neat, low-poly look that reminds me of the PS1, but everything is crisper and higher res. Reviewers say it is more like a demo, but it does have a number of positive reviews.
Another game looking like a PS1 title, but this time trying to be like Burnout Crash, but from a behind the vehicle, third-person perspective. The explosions look cheap as all get out, but I appreciate the revival of the gameplay style.
Strategy
With an odd premise, and cute pixel artwork, this action strategy game may be quite fun for players. You’re a cat who wants to visit a friend in the afterlife, but Osiris denies you entry. You pounce on enemies to control them and change your attacks.
Other
Although listed as an adventure game, this seems a bit more focused on the (AI-generated) artwork, tone, and storyline than gameplay. As such, I am putting it in the Other category. I do think it looks pretty good, albeit with cheap looking character movements that AI-art tends to generate. I may want to try it out for the story later.
This may be the game I am most impressed by this week! It is an interactive fiction title that teaches the player basic principles of foraging for real plants and herbs in the wild. Really intriguing, and hopefully helpful for those who want to learn such skills.
An adventure mystery game that focuses on exploration, characters, and world building. The talking animals have nice art design and according to reviews, the depth of the storyline really grows as you make multiple choices after each playthrough. Limited gameplay and slow progression, however.
Conclusion
This week had a good balance of action and story-focused games. Yet, one game that I didn’t mention in the intro is the super cute Catacombs. I think the pixel art is fun, and I liked what I saw in the game’s trailer. Although, as I shared last time, all the games that have an “*” next to them are ones that I would like to play.
Are you going to play any of the games mentioned above? Let us know in the comments below. Thank for reading!
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