Warhammer 40K: Mechanicus Is Free On Epic

Monday, Final Fantasy (the not ultra-gay one) got a story trailer, and everyone’s favorite Pokémon knock-off Digimon is getting multiple games at some point. Tuesday, Teardown‘s latest update highlights mods, and Cult of the Lamb has a timed event I know I’ll never get to. Wednesday, the news became drier than a nun in Vatican City. Thursday, Overwatch 2 has a Halloween event right now that is about as popular as your dad on Grindr. In other news, Chris Chibnall died after I verbally abused him for a while (with only a threat of physical harm too).

In fact, before we get to the normal free games, I think it is worth noting that starting this week you can now download GOG Galaxy on the Epic Games Store. I know, it is a bit stupid to have one launcher to download and launch another launcher, but there is a reason I am saying this. Alongside this announcement came a note that until the 30th, you can claim Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition. From the 31st of October to the 3rd of November you can get Epic’s 1998 game Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Collection on GOG too. It’s a roundabout way to do it, but sure more games!

More free games coming your way!

Download the @GOGGalaxy app on the Epic Games Store and claim Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition until October 30, followed by Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Collection available on October 31.

Get it now 💜👉 https://t.co/s131obKUpp pic.twitter.com/iDd4bjoY8p

— SpoOoky Epic Games Store 👻 (@EpicGames) October 27, 2022

Moving onto this week’s actual games and with this weekend being Halloween there just had to be a horror game in Santa Ragione’s Saturnalia. A survival horror adventure that I can’t lie, I haven’t touched and probably never will. Only releasing exclusively on the Epic Games Store (as well as consoles) yesterday, from reading a few reviews you’ll play as four characters in a darkened village with pandemic-levels of lockdown at night, where a curfew keeper will drag wayward nightwalkers to his pyre. You won’t die instantly, but if one of your other three fails to rescue your character they will die, and once all four are picked off the map changes, infuriatingly.

Now for Bulkward Studios’ Warhammer 40K: Mechanicus, a turn-based tactics release from 2018 that I’m about as familiar with as Liz Truss was with the inside of Number 10. I said recently in an article somewhere that my knowledge of Warhammer 40K extends to “Blood for the blood gods,” and that is where it also ends. The strange overdesigned fantasy/sci-fi aesthetic never grabbed me as much as I wish it did. I know if I could look past that, I’d be all over Warhammer 40K like a drug dog on Robert Downey Jr in the 90s.

All this week, you can pick up Saturnalia and Warhammer 40K: Mechanicus for free until the 3rd of November. Next week I’ll have to talk about Rising Storm 2: Vietnam once again (sadly) and the interesting 2020 puzzle game, Filament. The latter focuses on your ability to pull a wire and light up some pillars. It sounds simple until you get a proper look at it. Though, expect the Prime Gaming article Monday where I’ll be talking about Fallout: The One Where Chandler Wears A Long-Sleaved and Short-Sleeved Combo To Hide A Drug Problem Ultimate Edition. That is a long way to get around a joke about an actor’s drug problem, isn’t it? Yes, I agree.