Summary
Befitting its typical every Thursday at 10 am CT rotation, theEpic Games Storehas made its latest free offerings (Homeworld Remastered CollectionandSevered Steel) available, while revealing the games that will join next week:tower-defense gameBloons TD 6andLoop Hero.
Previously, the Epic Games Store gave awayElder Scrolls OnlineandMurder by Numbers, ensuring that players had distinct options. The former, as an MMO, has hundreds of hours of content players can enjoy, so hopefully everyone was able to pick it up before the swap out. Whereas the previous offerings were completely different games, theEpic Games Store free games for July 27 are devoted to Sci-Fi fans:Homeworld Remastered CollectionandSevered Steel. The former is incredibly popular, but if sci-fi fans are unfamiliar, it’s an RTS game based on space battles where unit types, fleet formations, and flight tactics all come into effect. Meanwhile,Severed Steelis an FPS boasting a fluid stunt system, destructible environments, and a lot of trigger finger work in a sci-fi setting and superstructure.
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After this week, though,Epic Games Storeusers will be able to claimBloons TD 6andLoop Hero, with the games remaining free from August 3 until August 10. The former is an iconic, if somewhat niche, franchise that many fans will already know about. It’s a tower defense game featuring playful visuals, co-op gameplay, fun and zany characters, and so on. In it, players will need to fend over waves of increasingly challenging enemies. Meanwhile,Loop Herosees players trying to save a world from a lich, with unique loop-based gameplay.
Epic Games Store List (July/August 2023)
BloonsandLoop Heromay not live up to everyone’s expectations, but something more mindless and fun to follow a big MMO, intense RTS gameplay, and so forth makes sense. At the same time, it’s worth mentioningBaldur’s Gate 3’s PC release is on August 3too, meaning that this could have been a big giveaway that could still go largely ignored. After all,BG3is an entry in a franchise that has defined CRPGs. Still, between sessions of it, some relaxingLoop HeroandBloonsgameplay could be fun.
All in all, it’s been a pretty great few weeks on the Epic Games Store. From time to time, it appears to get into a rut where the offerings are incredibly small or niche, meaning that the only real reason to check them out is that they’re free. That really can’t be said about last week’s offering, that can’t be said aboutEGS' giveaway ofHomeworld Remastered CollectionandSevered Steel, and the ease and popularity of a tower defense game could be seen as a small refresher.
