Marvel’s Midnight Suns is Free on Epic

Monday, Cassette Beasts has a physical Switch release and Haunted House Renovator proves corpos will flip anything. Tuesday, Kena: Bridge of Spirits is coming to Xbox, Crusader Kings III is getting new DLC, and the cozy adventure title Fireside is now on PC and Switch later this month. Wednesday, HITMAN 3 VR is a thing, so now I oddly have the desire to dress as a clown to walk around Wisteria Lane, and Dungeons of Hinterberg has a demo out now. Thursday, get your Rishi Sunak on and lose an election by a landslide, and Cook for Love lets you get your Ratatouille on.

Moving on to what is available through the Epic Games Store this week, it is 2K’s Firaxis Games’ Marvel’s Midnight Suns. Yes, I’m sure my editor wants to kill me too, but keep naming games like this and I’ll keep calling it out. Nonetheless, the XCOM (2012) and Civ VI devs’ Marvel-based XCOM-like is also a card-based tactical fighter as much as it is about 3 military dudes in Marvel cosplay launching the furniture around and definitely not swearing as Blade would. No, despite the more grown-up nature of X-Men ’97, this 2022 title plays a bit more like modern Marvel once it was popular.

Part dating-sim, part Joss Whedon dialog, you’ll awkwardly try to get access to Ghost Rider’s bone and have Captain Marvel dominate you. All the while, occult neo-nazis or whatever Hydra are this time around, look to take over the world with the help of a magical all-powerful witch who just so happens to be your mother. It turns out that the producers couldn’t keep their hands off, as you are a totally original character don’t steal, the child of the supervillain and the only person who can stop her. Oh, and there are multiple currencies to bleed you dry.

All this week you can pick up Marvel’s Midnight Suns on the Epic Games Store until Thursday, the 13th of June. Moving on to next week, it is a return to me moaning a whole lot about free-to-play nonsense (Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms) and a game you’ll pick up but never really play, Redout 2. A sequel to the 2016 F-Zero/Wipeout successor, 2022’s Redout 2 is more of the same but a bit shinier.