Star Wars: Squardrons Is Free On Epic

Monday, 2K started a sale of their sports titles and the Ashley Burch lite RPG, and I was very very happy about the latest casting in Doctor Who. On Tuesday, the Japanese-influenced free-to-play shooter Gundam Evolution revealed its second season, mere minutes after its first release. Wednesday, Civ 6 continued to add more and more to its complex mechanisms, and Weird West finally added mods support with update 1.05. Thursday, nothing happened because as I’ll keep repeating, the gaming world is either dead or waiting for Geoff’s yearly advertisements.

Moving on to this week’s single offering from the Epic Games Store, Star Wars: Squadrons. An underground ring of dogs fighting in space, you spend your time pretending to be Ewen Mcgregor’s uncle, Wedge Antilles. There isn’t really much to say about EA’s last few gasps of Star Wars being drawn out as the exclusive license dried up.

This one is a multiplayer and VR-focused toy with a minimal single-player story for fans of the franchise. I won’t deny the ability to sit in the cockpit of an X-wing would be exciting, but I’m more of a fan of Jean-Luc than the bible playing out in space. I’m sure Andrew Loyd Webber did a production of that in the 70s.

All this week you can pick up Star Wars: Squadrons on the Epic Games Store until Thursday, December 1st. Moving on to next week’s offerings, one of which I’m at least interested in and it isn’t the game.

Fort Triumph is a turn-based RPG with X-COM-like combat and an art style that really puts me off, while RPG in a Box is a voxel-based RPG creation tool that is supposed to be accessible. I think I’ve solved what I’ll be doing during our end-of-year break.