Football Manager 2020 & Watch_Dogs 2 Free On Epic

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Is this triple bill my punishment just for saying the 1984 mess was wrong? Monday, I covered what was added to Prime Gaming and it was Portal 2 but worse. Wednesday, Taylor spoke about Super Mario 3D, I covered Rocket League going free and THPS 1 + 2 hitting a franchise-best sales figures. Thursday, Alexx spoke about a school where you can poo on the floor and magic it away along with the announcements at the PS5 price and release reveal. Additionally, Mike wrote about Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry bundles sales prices on PlayStation Plus, and David spoke about the coming Left 4 Dead 2 update coming next week.

Yes, this week’s Epic Games Store free games are seemingly in retaliation to those of us who spoke about against that 1984-spoof trailer. Well, it feels like that after enjoying the idea of not having to do too much work this week and enjoy something I’ve played before. I don’t get that with a sudden triple-bill. Yes, I said it last week, you can now pick up Stick it to the Man by Zoink, the developer behind Lost in Random. Though I will say, as I often do in these cases, I was sent a key to play and review Stick it to the Man a few years ago. Take my praise for it how you will.

Stick it to the Man, is a humorous 2D adventure-platformer about a young lad named Ray. Ray has been hit in the head and lives in this Mario-style papercraft/sticker world. He navigates and tears out parts of the world with a supernatural hand that comes out of his forehead. By no means (from memory) is it a particularly deep game, with Ray labeled as mental for telling his therapist that he can listen to people’s thoughts. It is fun, a little dark, quite light overall, and 90s adventure game-like, Stick it to the Man is something I’d recommend playing between the big releases in the coming months.

From fun to spreadsheets and millionaires falling down all the time, next up is Football Manager 2020. A game about baking a cake with only the heat of the sun on the dark side of the moon. Of course it is not! It is about being the world’s most boring human, looking at pages and pages of numbers, and making small decisions that make no sense to humans that enjoy life. Imagine Crusader Kings 3, but instead of all that interesting history and political scheming behind religious theocracies, you just decide to pay a millionaire slightly more for kicking a ball. I agree with Lee Evans, they should be paid a pound (or one dollar) for every step they take, that’d get them moving.

See, Football Manager is that type of game for very boring people that enjoy looking at spreadsheets. Often I’ll give something like this a go. I call them dad games (mundane and a bit boring), but I know it isn’t going to be for everyone. It is one of those moments where if you like these types of games, then you already have it or you’ve wanted to for a long enough you leaped at the chance to get it already via sales. Otherwise, I’d suggest picking it up, if not to play it, then at the very least to try it. There are imitators to this series with baseball and basketball all over Steam.

Hello Sweetie! I make it no lie, as much as I love Doctor Who and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2, I could never proselytize enough about Watch_Dogs 2. It is not flashy, it doesn’t pretend to be anything more than it is, and it holds true to what a Watch_Dogs (or simply Watch Dogs) game should be, fun and unrealistic. The world alone is brilliantly designed because it is the Bay area. It is a massive pool of water with cities and more rural areas surrounding that. It is fantastic for just the views you can have, and knowing where you are because of that.

Yes, it is the typical Ubisoft brand of open-world game, but it does it with so much color and character that it shines like a diamond. The only downside to it all is Aiden Pearce being attached to it like toilet paper on the bottom of your shoe; What I’d give to give him a disease and slowly kill him. I can’t stand that the first game is what most people look at and think, “oh, it is just more of that,” it is not, it is so much better in every single way. The driving is still a bit crap, but that’s the case with most Ubisoft games.

Yes, Football Manager 2020, Watch_Dogs 2, and Stick it to the Man are all free on the Epic Games store until the 24th of September. Once again, we’re told that it will be another week of one game, though we’ll see if that is true. Next week, you’ll be able to pick up one of the greatest games of all time, now as the complete edition. RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Complete Edition will be available from the 24th of the 1st of October.