Summary
The free games promotion for theEpic Games Storehas served as a great way to get players talking about the storefront for many years, and will continue to offer interesting freebies for the foreseeable future. Changing out every Thursday at 10 AM CT, players know exactly when they can check Epic Games to see what titles are now available, and what will be available the week before. That’s how players knew aboutthe missing free Epic Games title for November 3before it failed to show up the day of.
Despite the fact that players couldn’t getF.I.S.T: Forged in Shadow Torchlast week, they could still getTurnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion,a humorous hack-and-slash adventure about a little root vegetable that doesn’t think about the consequences of ripping up government documents. Almost to go alongside Turnip Boy’s strange presence in players' libraries,Golden Lightis currently the Epic Games Store freebie, withEarthlockandSurviving the Aftermathset to follow behind it starting on November 16.
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How long to beat
Roughly between 22 hours and 30 hours
Reviews
8/10 viaNintendo Life
Aiming to replicate late 90s RPGs such asFinal Fantasy 7andtheTales ofseries,Earthlockinvites players onto the planet Umbra in an adventure that starts simple, but grows into something greater that tests the party’s heroic might. Much like its inspirations,Earthlockpromises to give fans a tactical turn-based RPG with detailed combat and interesting characters, with plenty of side features to keep players invested through its runtime. Leaning purposefully into old iconic RPG tropes, there’s naturally a few secrets hidden away in ruins, forgotten locations, and artifacts that play an important key role inEarthlock’s story.
Survival city-builder
26 hours and 30 minutes on average
Mostly positive on Steam
InSurviving the Aftermath, the world has already ended, and its up to players to verify that whoever’s left standing lives to see their time in this new world through.WhileSurviving the Aftermathtypically goes on saleevery so often, offering the city builder at the same time as the RPGEarthlockleaves players with many hours of playtime at no extra cost if fans get both titles.Surviving the Aftermathhas been criticized for not following through on its story setting, but it offers truly addictive, complex, and fun city-building mechanics.
Surviving the Aftermath and Earthlock Both Share a Theme of What Came Before
There’s a reoccurring theme between both games that ties them together, and that’s the fact that the characters in both games learn from the world they’ve left behind in different ways. Even ifSurviving the Aftermathmay not use its post-apocalyptic world in its favor, it still deals with moving on from the old world and learning to make the best of the new one the survivors built. AsEarthlockdeals with the party learning the secrets to the artifact sharing the same name as the title, tying it to an old civilization that came centuries before, the twoEpic Games Storefree games come together with a message that learning from the past is important for the sake of the future.
Another important detail that these games have in common is that if players like the experience given to them for free,Surviving the Aftermathhas plenty of DLC packs to extend the game’s replayability, andEarthlockhas a sequel in the workscurrently. As a result, picking both games up as part of the promotion could lead them to find a new favorite game to enjoy long after the freebies are switched out.
