I’ve been asked this already this week, am I ill? Monday, I wrote my only news piece this week before now, with Prime Gaming adding two games that I’ve still not touched. Also, David spoke of Mortal Kombat 11 getting an Ultimate Edition soon. On Tuesday, David spoke of the very imminent WoW: Shadowlands pre-patch, and it turns out it was more imminent than I thought. Wednesday, Taylor spoke about strange people buying individual Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons on the cheap, and how you may be about to soon too. Finally, on Thursday, Zoë reported of how Runescape is now on Steam.

Another week of roughly the same games as what I’ve played before for these Epic Games Store articles and another week I don’t have to play them. I wasn’t going to play the first one anyway, as Amnesia: The Dark Descent wasn’t something I enjoyed at all a while back. I’ll say it now: If you want someone the likes the modern-day horror, speak to Zoë. This week, A Machine of Pigs is available for free on the Epic Games Store, and it continues the Amnesia brand of horror with walking about, hiding from body horror, and a complete inability to do anything about it aside from Alt+F4.

If you’re a fan of horror, that is the badger for you. I, on the other hand, would have been playing Kingdom New Lands, the resource managing, survival, side-scrolling, and town-building game-thing. I’ve still not quite managed to pin down what the Kingdom series really is. It is something that could only work now, as it is very much the type of game you could play on a Switch on a bus. I’m not saying you’ll lose hours to it; you’ll find a groove and zone out a little, but eventually, you’ll swear as night falls and your kingdom’s defenses aren’t ready for the battering your back doors are about to receive. It is as wide as a puddle, and as deep as the ocean.

Both Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and Kingdom New Lands are available for free all week until the morning of October the 22nd. As for what is next, I have a 5th sense. Before we knew what it would be, I said to my editor that we’ll have Costume Quest 2 and something horror-y. It turns out I am Nostradamus or something. Next week I’ll be talking about Costume Quest 2 and ignoring Layers of Fear 2 like that creepy guy on the bus.

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