Deathloop is free on Epic

Monday, you’ll be able to get your Antiques Roadshow on during the Steam Next Fest, and Aaron Paul’s Dispatch has a demo. Tuesday, If Sony is too busy picking for gold in its anus, I guess Brazillian developer Lightmancer Studios will make a Bloodborne-ish game, IO announced the James Bond game, again, and WoW Classic is set to get “Mists of Pandaria” soon. Jack Black, he gets everywhere. Wednesday, There was a tech demo for The Witcher IV, Garfield Kart 2 will make you hate Nermal more, and MindsEye execs leave ahead of the game’s launch. Thursday, Sony jumped ahead of Geoff with a State of Play, and someone has made Peggle a Rogue-like (again).

Moving on to the Epic Games Store, and it is the final week of the MEGA sale, and we’ll kick off with Deathloop. Arkane and Bethesda’s FPS time-looping “immersive sim” with a touch of retro-futurism has a lot going for it in concept, at least the ideas of the asymmetrical multiplayer, the setting, and such are worth mentioning. However, much like straight-up aggressive combat in Dishonored, it is a little broken to say there is much of a challenge. That says nothing of the time loop that doesn’t actually work in the first place.

Writing about it back in 2023, I was less than favorable towards it and its ideas. I found it dripping with style but lacking in substance. Aimed more at multiplayer while completely ignoring the single-player experience, leaving it to lack challenge, threat, or anything sufficiently interesting/unique about it.

Onto the second offering for the week, and what is also available on the Epic Games Store for mobile, it is Ogu and the Secret Forest. A sort of Zelda-like offering this one, you play as a baby Ogu set to take on what seems like a wholesome little adventure to begin with. As usual, you step into a world of unknown problems that are solved through puzzles and adventures, only sometimes broken up by dancing to get your health back. Not a bad second offering, but certainly one that is aimed at a certain few rather than mass appeal.

All this week, you can pick up Deathloop and Ogu and the Secret Forest on the Epic Games Store, with the latter also available on the Epic Games Store for mobile until the morning of the 12th of June. Next week we’re back to normal weekly offerings that we can talk about ahead of time, and next week is certainly interesting. Two Point Hospital is the modern take on Theme Hospital, and if you’re old enough to know what a VHS is, you’ll now be excited by that news.