Monday, Prime Gaming thinks I’m old enough to care about Atari, and a demo for News Tower is available right now. Tuesday, Uncle Phil responded to rumors of Xbox’s demise. Wednesday, Antipaint has a demo available until Monday, and there is a demo for a Nintendo game from 2004. Thursday, Stealth X-COM-like Classified: France ’44 got its release date finally, and Blasphemous-like art is the biggest selling point of Voragine Game Studio’s Souls-like Eden’s Guardian ahead of its Kickstarter, which has a demo right now. Is it a week if you don’t find out about another Souls-like?

Moving on to what is available this week, we’ll of course start with the non-traumatic and totally normal Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!. Is it fair to say spoilers are fair game 7 years after the game’s release? Originally released as a free visual novel that no one would shut up about, Doki Doki Literature Club plays with the tropes of the genre and the visual style to do something quite interesting about the subject matter. Released in 2021, the Plus! edition added several short stories that work as a prequel to the main story.

Also available this week on the Epic Games Store is Hunter Studio’s 2016 side-scrolling, action, Rogue-like, beat ’em-up title, Lost Castle. A little bit of everything all at once, indeed. Unlike the 2016 release, the upcoming sequel which this free giveaway is looking to promote isn’t published by Neon Doctrine, and I find the sequel’s art to be more appealing. I’ll put my hands up and say I don’t enjoy many beat ’em ups, so Lost Castle wouldn’t appeal to me in the first place. For what it’s worth, those who play and enjoy the genre(s) seemingly love Lost Castle.

You can pick up Doki Doki Literature Club Plus and Lost Castle all this week on the Epic Games Store until Thursday, the 15th of February. Moving on to next week, and you’d think I would be very excited for a racing game to be part of the offers. Dakar Desert Rally, based on the Dakar Rally or what was once called the Paris-Dakar Rally because it went from Paris to Dakar. Oh, when it made sense! Now it just crosses Saudi Arabia in 30 stages over something like two weeks. How boring!

Phenixx Gaming is everywhere you are. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Also, if you’d like to join the Phenixx Gaming team, check out our recruitment article for details on working with us.

Phenixx Gaming is proud to be a Humble Partner! Purchases made through our affiliate links support our writers and charity!