Free PC Games: Get your weekly freebies from Epic Store now [videos]

It’s freebie time again! Epic Games made this week’s free games available for download already. There are two options up for grabs this week again, Costume Quest and SOMA.

Last week’s free offerings were Layers of Fear and C.U.B.E.2. If this week’s offerings are not your cup of tea, then wait it out until next week for Nuclear Throne and Ruiner.

Available from Epic Games – 31 October to 7 November

Costume Quest

Developed and published by Double Fine Productions, Costume Quest usually retails for R60. The role-playing game (RPG) is described as a Halloween adventure in which your hero trick-and-treats beautiful environments.

Award-winning veteran Tim Schafer worked on the development of Costume Quest, and it shows. Schafer is dedicated to making high quality games with emphasis on originality and, most importantly, fun.

“Double Fine Dose it again! With a funny creative innovate new game! The combat is really fun and the costumes are amazing also with the graphs and jokes. I recommend getting this for Halloween”.

Popisju, MetaCritic

Watch: Costume Quest gameplay

Do note that Costume Question carries a ESRB rating of 10+ for fantasy violence.

SOMA

Developed and published by Frictional Games, SOMA is a sci-fi horror game with an “unsettling story about identity, consciousness, and what it means to be human”. If you forget to download it this week, you’d be able to still purchase the game from the Epic Store for R195.

“The radio is dead, food is running out, and the machines have started to think they are people. Underwater facility PATHOS-II has suffered intolerable isolation and you’re going to have to make some tough decisions. What makes sense? What is left to fight for?”

Frictional Games

According to IGN Africa, SOMA feels weighty “but never dry or ponderous”. Daniel Krupa confirms that the story is “engaging and surprising,” but add that the “exploration elements are much less memorable”.

“In terms of plot and ideas, SOMA is fascinating, but when it comes to the moment-to-moment gameplay it has fewer original ideas.”

Watch: SOMA trailer

Please note, this trailer contains a Mature 17 ESRB rating for Partial Nudity, Use of Alcohol and Strong Language.

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Q.U.B.E.2

As you may have gathered, this game is a sequel to Q.U.B.E, a first-person puzzle games and a runaway success at the time of its release. The hit game was developed by Toxic Games and published by Ten Hut Games in March 2018.

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to play as a stranded archaeologist, Amelia Cross, and solve the puzzles of this mysterious world. Succeed, and you’ll find your way back home.

Layers of Fear

Layers of Fear contains mature content which is not recommended for players under the age of 18.

Bloober Team developed the first-person psychelic horror, while Aspyr Media published it back in 2016. Through the game, you get to “delve deep into the mind of an insane painter and the discover the secret of his madness.”