Monday, FM26 “revamped” recruitment like I redecorated my office; I’ve hung up a whiteboard and lost the pen, and I still can’t find the second hole punch. Tuesday, Slots and Daggers, Bender’s second-favorite casino activity, got a release date. Oh, and for those who miss WoW from 2016, the Legion Remix event is live. Wednesday, Silly Polly Beast is a Suda51 game without the Suda51 in it, which is like Coke Zero but infinitely healthier for you. Thursday, the weebs are at it again, having another spin-off of Final Fantasy with a naming convention that needs to be viewed as its own language.

Moving on to the Epic Games Store for this week, and I think we’ll start with the Amanita Design game, so I don’t borrow someone else’s hole punch to break my face on. Very surrealist in an Eastern European way, Samorost 3 is the third in a series (shocker) of surreal-ish point & click adventures through weird locales; from a hairy bumhole with stoned prehistoric seacreatures (i.e, your ancestors) to a forest with an Albino Aardvark-like thing. All while playing as a gnome. It is like Moomins, but infinitely less charming – and not made by a lesbian.

The annoying thing with covering Amanita Design games is that they don’t excite me for one reason or another. The style, the artwork, and the gameplay of Samorost 3 just feel, in how the studio presents it, as just another point & click adventure with a hint of “oddball” humor. In a rare showing, Samorost 3 is also the game available on the mobile version of the Epic Games Store, available globally for Android and in the EU for iOS users.

Onto something more interesting, though that’s only because I snort war history like your “we didn’t have autism back in my day” dad, who paints little army men to quiet the thoughts in his head. Amnesia: The Bunker is a World War 1 (Yes, but what do you mean, one?) horror game where you are trapped in a bunker between the French and the German lines, making it a three-sided coin toss of the monster, the Germans, or the French. Quite frankly, I’d turn the French-issued revolver on myself and call it a day.

Still very Amnesia-like, in that you’re in a dark place, and everything that makes it less “scary” slash “jump-scary” is counterintuitive to the whole staying alive bit. Yet when you’ve spent a few hours with the horror, you realize he’s a nice bloke called Kevin from Dunsfold who is typically an accountant by day but took up the cosmic wartime horror because it paid better. The fact that someone will take that at face value is genuinely shocking. Probably the best Amnesia alongside The Dark Descent, but only because The Dark Descent set sail the ship of YouTuber bait.

All this week, you can pick up Amnesia: The Bunker and Samorost 3 on the Epic Games Store until the 23rd of October. To which, following next week’s Epic Games Store outing, clocks are changing again, so I’m not even going to hint at a time for three weeks. Moving on to next week, and because it is October and everything is Americanized to follow Halloween as the only time for horror, we get a look at Cozy Game Pals’ not-so-cozy PS1-ish Fear the Spotlight. Designed to look like a game depressingly older than you, albeit with a thousand more pixels.

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