Knightica is free on Epic

Monday, Project ReMind is a walking-sim puzzler about insanity, and I feel like I am there, as a Wholesome Snack was announced for December. Tuesday, EA isn’t helping itself after BioWare with layoffs for Zero Company devs. Wednesday, Cities: Skylines II gets zoos and parks soon, with a free weekend right now, and apparently there is a new Dragon Quest game. Hopefully with a proper logo and not that Builders nonsense again. Thursday, nothing happened; a CEO has been slinging it around, GTA releases soon, and Prime/Luna wasn’t terrible this month.

On to the Epic Games Store and the biggest surprise this side of FM27‘s Workshop Support issues, so here I am talking about Knightica. Sadly, this week’s offering for both mobile and PC is one of my blind spots in gaming: A turn-based Rogue-like tower defense auto-battler with a late-2000s take on those PS2 mascot platformer art styles. Indeed, the word salad of describing a game, very little of which is selling you on putting the time into it, though. What more could I say? It is free this week, and if you have the time, give it a shot.

All this week, you can pick up Knightica on PC or mobile from the Epic Games Store until the 19th of November. On to next week, and I can actually talk about both offerings because I actually like them. Alien: Isolation, the 2014 master class in how to do video game horror with a classic IP without spaffing it up the wall. As well as Mad Mimic’s 2025 isometric action game, Mark of the Deep. I can’t wait for the mobile thing to be revealed as something awful to ruin my mood.