911 Operator Is Free On Epic

Monday, ahead of its release next week, Lies of P showed off its Legion Arm Mechanic. Tuesday, we covered that RuneScape is getting a board game for some reason. Wednesday, the SpongeBob platformer from earlier this year is coming to current-gen consoles, and isometric RPG Broken Roads got a November release. Thursday, Starfield is finally adding features that should have been in there from day 1, though in a future set of updates, and the fantastic Tango Fiesta developer Spilt Milk made a “Shop-sim” game about Alexx, Trash Goblin.

Moving on to this week’s free game on the Epic Games Store, I find it funny that this week we’re covering 911 Operator. In the same realm as Papers, Please, 911 Operator puts you in the position of someone just doing a job. It happens that this job is the person taking the calls that send the cops out to your neighbor’s domestic disputes. Reasonably received though widely criticized, 911 Operator is noted for being an interesting concept but it quickly becomes repetitive by the time you’ve fully gotten into the groove. You can also pick up the free First Response DLC.

All this week, you can pick up 911 Operator on the Epic Games Store until Thursday morning, the 21st of September. Moving on to next week we’ve got a double bill. Starting out with what I thought was a repeat thanks to Prime, 2D platformer Out of Line is exactly what you think it is. That is quickly followed up by The Forest Quartet, which isn’t a horror game based on Lost but with musicians. Instead, it is just an indie story thing with vague symbolism. I guess it is a vague symbolism double-bill next week.