Dead By Daylight & While True: Learn() Are Free On Epic

Monday, Beyond A Steel Sky had some minor delays, War in the East 2 is coming to Steam, and Cyberpunk 2077 reviewed well on Steam. Tuesday, Prime Gaming continued and the end-of-year giving has already begun, while CD Projekt reshuffled GOG, and the Gotham Awards aren’t actually Batman’s fashion choices. Wednesday, the Dead Cells crossover with other indie games is now live on consoles. Thursday, San Andreas‘ “Definitive Edition” got the fog back, and Titanfall fell off of digital store shelves.

Onto this week’s free games on the Epic Games Store and for me to not buck the trend of finding complete displeasure in survival, multiplayer, and otherwise social gameplay experiences. Dead By Daylight is an asymmetrical survival horror multiplayer game where someone plays as the hunter and others play as the hunted. It is a great idea. I love an asymmetrical multiplayer experience when I am around them, the trouble is the horror and survival aspects that pull any intrigue I’ve had for it right out of me. By all accounts, it is a very good game but just one that falls outside of my wheelhouse.

Moving on to what I was given a key to review about 3 or 4-years ago now, While True: Learn() is a part hacker/programming thing and what haunts my nightmares. You are trying to create AI systems with filters. It is a very watered-down way of showing exactly the detailed nature of creating AI but still is interesting. However, the story is a bit mad, to say the least: Your cat is a better coder than you, and thus, you are attempting to create a translation matrix so you can learn all the secrets and make millions together. Oh, you heard me perfectly fine, and you know you did. It is great fun and just a little bit infuriating in all the ways puzzle games are when you want to swear at them.

You can pick up both Dead by Daylight and While True: Learn() for free all week until the 9th of December, and as usual, I’d suggest picking up both. Moving on to next week, however, we have an odd mix: Godfall Challenger Edition and Prison Architect, which means once again I am going to bemoan something I don’t particularly like and then praise the sun for the small indie game with stabbing. Next week, expect me to tell you the story of stabby Dave, the necrophiliac who liked killing my guards for some reason, and how I don’t care for Gearbox’s “Looter-slasher.”