I believe there is more pressing and urgent news about the Challenger space shuttle this week than there has been in gaming. Monday, there was nothing, and on Tuesday, we found out a new indie game turned a profit in 24 hours. We also found out that the Steam Machine will be DOA because who is paying that money? I wrote an editorial on that. 505 Games is publishing a cool retro-future FPS, ExeKiller. Then on Thursday, we noted that GTA VI is priced up the wazoo and still won’t hit PC for another year or so, fantastic!

Moving on to the Epic Games Store, and quite frankly, I don’t want to be here. That isn’t a thinly veiled comment about suicide. I am sitting here boiling to death waiting on the rain like a farmer in May. We’ll start with the one we’ve seen before, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Complete Edition, the penultimate game of the series that Atari (the French one) keeps trying to kill. RollerCoaster Tycoon, as a series, is a weird one because 2 is brilliant 90s management, but 3 (including the Complete Edition) is brilliance in 3D.

Shall we talk about the mobile offering that is going to get me killed? I want to preface this with: I do not like side-scrolling beat ’em ups. I have no nostalgia for that 80s/90s gameplay. Available this week on the Epic Games Store for mobile is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, a side-scrolling beat ’em up around something that apparently everyone has nostalgia for out of the blue. I love pizza and crazy old men in housecoats as much as the next person, but Shredder’s Revenge just isn’t my thing.

Oddly enough, of the three available this week, the 2D action-platformer Metroidvania is the one that was on my wishlist before this. Voidwrought is just that, a metroidvania among many of them, with an art style that may look a little closer to Hollow Knight than not, and some gameplay that isn’t revolutionizing the genre. Yet despite that, there is a diamond in the rough for Powersnake’s first game, and that is quite commendable in a genre that’s so saturated.

All this week, you can pick up RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Complete Edition and Voidwrought on the Epic Games Store for PC, with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge available on the Epic Games Store for Mobile. All three are available until the 2nd of July, when I will be looking closer at suicide because of Jeffrey and Prime/Luna. Onto next week, though, it is River City Girls 2 (another beat ’em up?), and I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

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