Industria is Free on Epic

Monday, Stellar Blade is “Uncensored,” whatever that means despite Sony patching out the “Hard R” art mishap, Ready, Steady, Ship! is out now, and 7 Days to Die is releasing properly this summer. Tuesday, The Final Farewell is now out, the final DLC for Not for Broadcast has been teased, and the WoW 10.2.7 patch features are here. Wednesday, Atlus gave a release date for Metaphor: ReFantazio, and Billie Eilish is currently in Fortnite via Fortnite Festival. Thursday, Lords of the Fallen has a fantastic update with “Master of Fate,” and apparently PDP has falsely advertised the PlayStation Riffmaster.

Moving on to the Epic Games Store which is a double bill once again, so we’ll start with the one I don’t really understand at all, Lisa: Definitive Edition. Including two of the Lisa games, Lisa – The Painful and Lisa – The Joyful, both highly influenced by the 1994 game EarthBound, and I don’t think it is unfair to say there are similarities between the Lisa series and Toby Fox’s Undertale. Set in the apocalypse, everything is dirty, blood-soaked, and brown, as depicted by pixel art of extreme violence.

Following that is a slightly rusty dystopian singleplayer adventure set in Cold War Berlin, Industria. A heavily Half-Life 2-inspired adventure that didn’t land as was intended, I don’t think. There are plenty of ideas and atmospheric execution that were done well, though many seem to ding Bleakmill for how familiar and uninteresting the minute-by-minute gameplay is for the few hours of play.

All this week you can pick up Industria and Lisa: Definitive Edition on the Epic Games Store until Thursday, the 2nd of May. Moving on to next week and quite frankly I’ve no idea how I’ll talk about this one without asking for David’s help. Orcs Must Die 3 is a third-person tower defense themed around, you guessed it, the murder of orcs that must actually die for you to succeed. What else am I going to say next week now?