Godfall & Prison Architect Free On Epic

Monday, GRID Legends got a release date. Tuesday, this month’s PlayStation Plus games are interesting. Wednesday, an anime fighter is rolling back with updates, Ubisoft’s employees disagree the company is doing well following the bout of harassment claims last year, and Twelve Minutes released on non-Xbox consoles. Thursday, Apple won a stay on its appeal against the ruling in favor of Epic this past September, and some anime/JRPG thing about cooking hit its Kickstarter goal, with days left to go. Moving on to the free games on the Epic Games Store this week:

Well, I did promise I’d tell you about my mate Stabby Dave the necrophiliac, so let’s get to that. Sometimes Prison Architect likes screwing with you, leaving you to figure out where all the escapes in HMP Slade are coming from, and other times you’ll just have a bloke with a knife stabbing the guards before doing some unspeakable things to them. Kids, that’s why you hire men with big shotguns and dogs for your prison; it took three of them to get him off of Stephen and he was only three days away from retirement. It was a messy business.

Have I gone mad? Yeah, quite possibly, but at least it is the kind of mental illness where you get weird stories about some dogs biting at a man’s bits as his brain matter was spread across the cell floor. I quite like Prison Architect, it is more late-90s/early-00s management with a few improvements via early access; one of the few good ideas from Steam’s Early Access. I don’t think there is all too much more to say other than you build a prison, have to make it profitable and will fail multiple times because keeping inmates inside a prison is like keeping socks without holes in them. A task impossible until you know the trick.

Moving on to the second free game on the Epic Games Store this week, which is also available through PlayStation Plus this month (linked above), Godfall: Challenger Edition. Now, I think I’ve been fairly clear in my, shall we call them “colorful” opinions? I don’t like the multiplayer market. I don’t care for what Gearbox aimed for with Borderlands, and moreover, I think the whole looter-shooter (turned “looter-slasher”) genre is one of the most boring concepts to gameplay. Neither the looting nor the shooting/stabbing is generally excelling in either field, falling a little flat overall in either term of gameplay. If you like it, have at it, I’ll stick to whatever it is I enjoy this week.

All this week, you can pick up Godfall: Challenger Edition and Prison Architect on the Epic Games Store until the 16th of December. What comes next week? Well, that’s the eternal question, I guess. Next week begins Epic’s yearly thing where they start offering a different free game every day; at least, I assume that’s the beginning of this. They did it last year, and while I can say I’ll try to keep on top of that over on our Twitter during our break, don’t entirely hold your breath. I’ll be drunk on whatever it is I do when I don’t write something daily.