Eternal Threads & The Evil Within Are Free On Epic

Monday, if you are a 14-year-old child born in the 80s, you can now play South Park Pinball, because hipster is no longer a dirty word. Tuesday, Like a Dragon Gaiden won’t have an English dub at launch, which is a load of うんこ, and Payday 3‘s first major update is once again delayed, delaying my review. Wednesday, it is October, so Destiny 2 is having its own Dia de los Muertos with a festival de los perdidos, and another IP that Peter Jackson worked on is being ruined in video games once again in 2023. Thursday, nothing happened because it is October and the news is drier than the Colorado River reservoirs.

Moving on to the Epic Games Store and doing so quickly so I can get my review of Cities: Skylines II done for later today, we’ll start with Eternal Threads. It is an Everyone’s Gone to the Rapture-like but without spoiling the plot in the name of the game. Eternal Threads is a single-player story-driven first-person puzzle title that you didn’t know released last May. Neither did I. Playing as a time traveler, you go to the North of England in 2015 and investigate a house fire for several hours. I know, so exciting, I can’t wait to ignore it in my Epic library for the rest of time.

Moving on to horror and suspense by the man that put child Napolean in rural Spain in 2004 while you tried to rescue the president’s daughter, it is Shinji Mikami’s The Evil Within. Starting development in 2010, this 2014 horror title is actually one of the few that I think is worth playing. Not just because I hump Mikami’s leg like I do some other Japanese men’s legs, but because it is the fun RE4 nonsense all over again. The downside of The Evil Within is the plot is nicely described as paper-thin, and to unkindly put it you have to hyphenate an expletive into that phrase.

All this week you can pick up Eternal Threads and The Evil Within on the Epic Games Store until the morning of the 26th of October. Shifting right along to next week, it is another repeat of some Prime Gaming stuff. I’ve had my fill on Tandem: A Tale of Shadows by never installing it and having to talk about it for Prime, so here it is again. Follow that up with the other reason I say you should play The Evil Within, The Evil Within 2. The sequel is the one that actually pulls focus and does some story, not that it is good but honestly name a horror plot that has been, I’ll wait.

Just because you are super sexy and magical, or whatever you prefer to be complimented on, I’ll stick this one in as I didn’t know it was going to be a thing until yesterday. Those of you who have a Prime subscription get a little something extra in your Halloween stockings this year with October’s offerings, and it is a good one: Doom 3 for GOG. This also means you get the normal edition of Doom 3, which is great. However, you also get the 2012 BFG “remaster” edition, which isn’t as great by most accounts, but I think you could run it in VR for the Meta Quest 2? I could be wrong on that.