You do this by walking around in first person, tracing the paths walked by recordings of the crew, listening to their interwoven dialogues, and occasionally poking around their abandoned personal effects.
You're tasked with finding out exactly what. Something went wrong aboard this derelict space station, forcing an evacuation. It's a detective story, in essence, although not in a finger-pointing 'whodunnit' way, and more of an archaeological sense. Pip reviewed Tacoma as well, and slapped one of our shiny gold RPS Recommended stickers on it. Worth a look for the copious brain-teasers, even if the banksy-level 'made you think' narrative is a bit irritating. The focus of the story is solely on the characters and how they react to the strange situation they've found themselves in and - not to spoil anything - does some clever things on a second play-through as you're exploring alternate dialogue routes.Īs an aside, once Oxenfree cycles out as Epic's current free giveaway, the next in line is enormous line-doodling puzzle adventure The Witness. Unsettling, but there's no jump scares or big monsters screaming in your face.
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While full of supernatural spookiness, it's not a scary game, per se. Both are excellent at what they do.īack when she was part of Team RPS, Pip reviewed Oxenfree and called it "an unexpected delight".
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Oxenfree gives you branching conversation options plus the chance to interrupt characters (with occasional repercussions), while Tacoma is about passively picking apart complex chains of interactions between characters.
They're both games about dialogues, really. It's odd timing for both of these giveaways to happen at once, but they're a great pair of games if you want to play something a little softer and less combative. Grab them on Epic and Humble respectively today. Sci-fi mystery Tacoma by Fullbright is a little more grounded and quiet, letting you explore the lives and recorded dialogues of a space station's crew after some manner of space-disaster. Contemporary teen ghost story Oxenfree by Night School is the current fortnightly giveaway over on the Epic store, full of sass and supernatural weirdness.
Sometimes you just need to stop, listen and talk things over, like in Oxenfree and Tacoma, two lovely story-driven games that you can snag free right now and keep forever. May 19 - May 26, 2022: A mystery game! Epic free games List 2022 The Epic free games historyĭid you miss a good deal by a few days, or months? Can't remember if a game has been offered in the past? Worry not, here's a complete list of previous free game offers from Epic for posterity.Not every problem in games needs to be solved by shooting, stabbing or going very fast. Epic Games Store free games: What's coming next? May 12 - May 19, 2022: Redout: Enhanced EditionĪ high-speed hovercraft racing game. May 12 - May 19, 2022: Jotun: Valhalla EditionĪ beautiful hand-drawn game about killing Norse titans and earning a ticket to Valhalla. It's been free once before, but if you missed it December, here's another chance. Arkane's immersive sim set aboard a space station is essentially System Shock 3, and highly recommended to fans of stealth, spookiness in space, and stories with lots of twists in them.
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