Gloomhaven is Free on Epic

Starting with the news from Monday, you only have until Sunday to play the demo of Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, the 1.04 patch of Weird West released, and Vampire Survivors will leave early access soon. Tuesday, Samuel covered the Game Pass reveals from the Tokyo Game Show, and Alexx has to wait for Ragnarok before he can play Roots of Yggdrasil next year. Wednesday, the second wave of Game Pass releases were unveiled. Thursday, the second season of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot DLC was announced and 9th generation consoles will get ports.

Moving on to the games available this week on the Epic Games Store, one return and something new. We’ll start with ARK: Survival Evolved, a survival-crafting game that focuses around not being as wet as former S Club 7 member Hannah Spearritt’s ex. I’m probably the last person that remembers ITV’s Primeval (and S Club 7), but it was either that or Was (Not Was), as there isn’t much to say. If you’ve played any survival-crafting open-world, you’ve played them all, tameable and rideable dinosaurs or not, they all feature horrid optimization. This 8-year-old’s wet dream included. Though there is also a good chance if you don’t already have it, you don’t care.

Onto a game that takes 97-billion hours to set up in its physical form, and by the time you’ve got the first game in you’ll be fossilized, and of course, it is Gloomhaven. Released last October on Steam, the digitized version of the turn-based RPG dungeon crawler is actually highly acclaimed. I just have a thing against board games that take more time to set up than to play, and for the love of all that is holy, Gloomhaven is that. If you’re a fan of dungeon crawlers or being as anally retentive as James May is with his tool kit, Gloomhaven is probably for you.

All this week, you can pick up Gloomhaven and ARK: Survival Evolved on the Epic Games Store until the 29th of September. Next week you’ll be bouncing your controller across the room in the 2016 colorful party marathon platformer Runbow, and to calm down, you’ll have the cops banging on the door for flying something near an airport. Yes, another double-bill, as The Drone Racing League Simulator also lacks anything exciting to get say about it ahead of its free week.