The Epic Games Store is giving away 15 games per day for free in its festive season giveaway. Yesterday it was Tropico 5 for free. Today you can get Inside for mahala. Here’s what you need to know.
Festive Freebies – Day 8 of Epic Store’s 15-day sale
‘Inside’ – 24 to 25 December
Inside, which was developed and published by Playdead back in July 2016, is a sombre puzzle-platformer adventure game with a 94% critics’ rating and a “Mighty” OpenCritic Rating.
Christan Dolan from Eurogamer says it’s “Playdead’s follow-up to ‘Limbo’ [which] is a superior game in every way”, while Jaz Rignall from US Gamer says its only downside is being so short. Rignall added:
“Combine a highly a highly compelling visual narrative with superb puzzles and brilliant platforming, and you have ‘Inside’, one of the most intriguing, addictive and beautiful-looking games of this generation”.
Watch: ‘Inside‘ story trailer
Do note: Inside has Mature 17+ ESRB rating for Blood and Gore, and Violence.
“Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project”.
You have until 18:00 South African Standard Time (SAST) on 25 December to download Playdead’s masterpiece for free. Simply head over to the Epic Games launcher to get your copy.
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Previous free games from the Epic Store
Epic Games gave away Tropico 5 on Wednesday, 23 December. If you missed it, I do recommend getting it anyway, if city-building games are your jam. It’s currenlty marked down from R145.99 to R51.09.
You can also get Tropico 6 from Epic Games for R177.99. The Tropico series is both frustrating in every imaginable way, while also a heap of fun. Take my word for it, you won’t want to let this one go.
I’ve played a considerable amount of Tropico 5 (and Tropico 6) over the years, and I can count on one hand the times when revolutionaries liked me from the start, the capitalists knew their place and the royalists left me alone.
If you missed any of the previous games, hurry over to Epic and get it at a reduced cost while the festive season giveaway is still active.
- 17 December: Cities: Skyline
- 18 December: Oddworld: New n Tasty
- 19 December: The Long Dark
- 20 December: Defense Grid 1
- 21 December: Alien: Isolation
- 22 December: Metro: 2033 Redux
- 23 December: Tropico 5
- 24 December: Inside (You are here)
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