Prop Sumo is free on Epic

Monday, for the creative-minded among us, Mini Worlds Dioramas is a wonderful little creative thing. Tuesday, rougher than a badger’s ring piece, Killware: Under Review was announced. Wednesday, Must Be Feng Shui is a weird little puzzle game that was announced. Humble Choice for April was also announced, and apparently, everyone wanted more GoT shovelware, so GoT: Dragonfire was announced. Thursday, Purple Ray Studio’s next game, Koshmar: The Last Reverie, was also announced. Also, last Friday, we found out what games are available with your Prime subscription via Amazon Luna – no, the games to keep, not the stupid cloud gaming thing.

I swear I saw this thing last week! Moving on to the Epic Games Store after throwing my editor off with that, I know I saw TOMAK: Save the Earth Regeneration here last week. Unsurprisingly, the game itself hasn’t changed, but I did expect it to only be available for that week simply because that’s how this has operated for years now. Either way, if you’re looking for a reminder of where these Umanmusume: Pretty Derby style of games started in the early 2000s, TOMAK: Save the Earth Regeneration is exactly that. It is still creepy, though.

Moving on to what is actually available this week alone (I double checked), you can pick up Dumb Ways to Draw on mobile. Again, I could just copy-paste what I wrote last week – new owners and NFT nonsense slightly tint the Dumb Ways to Die thing. A very mobile-centric game design, Dumb Ways to Draw is the Dumb Ways to Die version of those “draw a line over the hazard to protect the jelly bean figure” games. You know that one that gets advertised with the bees you see a lot on mobile ads? Yeah, one of those, how exciting… I say, through exhaustion.

Onto the predicted disaster, Prop Sumo. Listen, I don’t like to be Quasimodo, but I did predict that Prop Sumo would fall flat as an online PvP thing that releases on Steam a week before it is free on Epic. What do you know, on Steam, there are four reviews total. If two is company, three is a crowd, then four does not make a fun online multiplayer experience – just ask Concord. I am being harsh because I have nothing else to say; it is a party fighting game without the novelty of Gang Beasts or the fun of actually slapping the person you are couch co-oping with.

All this week, you can pick up Prop Sumo and TOMAK: Save the Earth Regeneration on the Epic Games Store for PC, with Dumb Ways to Draw on Android worldwide and iOS in the EU, until the 16th of April. Onto next week, and it is an odd little thing I reviewed (otherwise I’ve got more work to do) sometime last year – and I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t adore it either. Following in the beautifully horrific style of Blasphemous, The Stone of Madness is a stunning isometric tactical stealth thing.