Mario Bautista
The Epic Games Store regularly gives out free games for users who regularly visit the storefront, which makes it a useful place for finding new games to play. While there’s no way to know exactly what’s released each week, apart from the occasional leak, it makes what’s being offered a surprise each and every week as different video game genres and experiences get a chance to shine regularly. Even with this grab bag of variety, however, it isn’t uncommon for some freebies to have something uncommon.
Games switch out on the Epic Games Store every Thursday at 10 AM CT, where the next set of games will be announced alongside the new ones put up for grabs. Sometimes these games can be swapped out at the last minute for undisclosed reasons, but currently, fans can look forward to possibly adding TOEM and The Last Stand: Aftermath to their libraries in a few days.
Epic Games Store Free Game The Last Stand: Aftermath Explained
One of the unique things about The Last Stand: Aftermath is that it’s a spiritual successor to an online flash game known as The Last Stand: Union City. However, where Union City was an RPG, The Last Stand: Aftermath serves as a roguelite where, if the player is lost to the zombie apocalypse, they can try another run as a different survivor each time. Just as expected of a game taking place during a zombie outbreak, fans need to look around, find supplies and weapons, and come up with their own strategy to make it through.
Stress levels are already high from the very beginning, though, as each run, the player starts off already bitten by a zombie with that slowly killing the player over time, which might end the run prematurely. The Last Stand: Aftermath has been praised by critics for its approach to the genre as well as the detail in the world fans have to navigate through the adventure. With a 4.4 star rating on the Epic Game Store itself, The Last Stand: Aftermath is most certainly worth checking out when it’s given away by those who enjoy zombie themes in their games along with the roguelite genre.
Epic Games Store Free Game TOEM Explained
It may look rather unusual when placed against such a gory and stressful game such as The Last Stand: Aftermath, but TOEM is still worth grabbing as part of Epic Games’ free game promotion. In fact, TOEM is rated just a bit better than The Last Stand: Aftermath, sitting at a 4.8 on the very same page where it’s about to be given away.
TOEM is an adorable monochrome game about taking photos and trying to capture a natural phenomenon that matches the game’s title, walking around Scandinavian cities along the way and helping the townsfolk with the use of a camera. These quests range from reasonable to surprisingly whimsical, such as getting hired for a newspaper just for having a camera, helping an archeologist find ancient history, among other simple requests from the curious characters found in TOEM‘s five locations. Not only is TOEM rather charming, but with a short length of 3-6 hours for completionists, it’s a great game to sit back and relax with while waiting for the next free titles.
Be it zombies or photographs, these two games offer worlds worth exploring to players at no extra charge for a limited time, even if one has much higher stakes than the other. It’s understandable if, due to their complete dissonance in tone, fans get one game over the other. However, trying out both may lead players to find a new favorite experience they wouldn’t have found otherwise. That’s one of the advantages to the Epic Games Store free games promotion, and more games are surely to come in the future.
Epic Games Store
A digital video game storefront for Windows PC and macOS created and operated by Epic Games. Originally launched in December 2018, Epic Games Store is both a website as well as a standalone launcher.
