The Operator is free on Epic

After every developer and/or publisher splooged their loads last week, the news has been rather light. Monday, Alexx covered the “this could have been an email blast” of IO Interactive’s showcase, and I covered the ever wonderfully weird and magical Latin American Games Showcase. Tuesday, it’s that one time of the year the gays, theys, and everyone colorful can be loud for 30 days, so RuPaul’s Drag Race has a mobile game that isn’t completely terrible morally. Wednesday, the Meca of consumerist crap is set to return with a Prime Day sale, so Jeffrey decided to make my day hell by adding six games to Prime Gaming.

On to the Epic Games Store, and I think we’ll start with the Epic Games Store for mobile offering, mostly because I’d get bored and stare at a wall otherwise. Doodle God Infinite Alchemy Merge is what happens if you want to make Scribblenauts, but happen to be a horrible person by ripping out all the gameplay. A game about combining things to create sand, water, dirt, rain, and such, a bit like Terra Nil, you simply just jab at things until something happens. Visually it’s about as satisfying as a tricky poo.

Moving on to something I’m less critical about in my games, mass government surveillance, and using computer programs to determine that someone committed a crime. A bit less like the wet dreams of certain people right now. Bureau 81’s The Operator, released last July and sees you start a job as an FDI agent (well, at a desk) doing all the McGeek stuff of digging into someone’s personal records and connecting all the dots. Very much about “cyber” crime and all the weird stuff that we think of in these weird dystopian nightmares of some people’s wet dreams (the NCIS writers).

All this week, you can pick up The Operator on the Epic Games Store for PC, as well as Doodle God for Android worldwide (aside from Australia and Brazil) and iOS in Europe until the 26th of June. Moving on to next week, we have something I’ve already reviewed back on Xbox a few years ago, Sable. A weird little adventure game with a French/Belgian comic book art style that is stunning. Here’s hoping they’ve fixed the performance issues it had on launch.