Monday, Starfield is to feature a dyslexic-unfriendly dialogue system, because Bethesda hates accessibility. Tuesday, the Bandicoot version of me when I’m hyper on coffee crashed onto Steam and it’s about time too, while EA shut down a bunch of online services again this year. Wednesday, the second horror-focused grouping of Game Pass titles was revealed. Thursday, NBA 2K23 continued to be very American and do a Halloween event so I don’t understand it even more, and my Nostradamus of the impending apocalypse was finally completed when Konami announced a remake of Silent Hill 2.

Moving on to this week’s free games on the Epic Games Store, we’ll start with what is not in the title: Evoland Legendary Edition. A double bill in itself, the legendary edition of this mid-2010s RPG influenced by Final Fantasy and Zelda features enhanced editions of both releases in the series, completing the story. Visually looking like a mix of that pixel-art Gameboy Advanced style in the first in the series, and a more detailed DS-era Zelda game art style for Evoland 2, Shiro Games’ RPG series is what I have avoided for long enough. So I’d be lying to say I have any knowledge beyond general observations.

Now for what I actually can talk about at length, Bethesda’s janky brown mess that represents the destroyed version of the physical manifestation of a clogged toilet, Washington DC. Yes, the Game of the Year edition of Fallout 3 is the main highlight of this week’s free games on the Epic Games store, featuring all the expansions including Operation: Anchorage, Broken Steel, Point Lookout, Mothership Zeta, and the scourge of the earth, The Pitt. The Fallout 76 version of that last slice of putrefied hell is currently available via Prime Gaming too. Not the best of the Fallout series, as that’s clearly Fallout 4, and anyone that claims New Vegas is blinkered.

All this week, you can pick up Evoland Legendary Edition and Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition on the Epic Games Store until the 27th of October. Given it is the week of Halloween it shan’t surprise anyone to know I’ll have to talk about survival horror, or as that translates to in English, jump scare central. Actually a double bill once again, I’ll be talking about the horror adventure game Saturnalia and Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus, which I also understand very little about other than overdesigned characters galore.

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