Epic Games Store customers have 24 hours to obtain at this time’s free sport earlier than it’s changed with a brand new free sport tomorrow on December 21. Between now and January 2, Epic Games Store customers shall be getting new free video games each day relatively than weekly. This is all the time the case in the course of the vacation season, and this yr isn’t any totally different. What’s not totally different is the way it works.
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Like all the time, it is a free obtain. In different phrases, it’s not a free demo nor a free trial. It is a free obtain for the whole sport. Further, there no subscriptions wanted or any necessities to satisfy. All that’s wanted is an Epic Games Store account, which prices nothing. And as soon as redeemed, the sport is free to maintain eternally. The solely factor PC avid gamers will must be conscious of is the aforementioned window of availability.
As for the sport in query, it’s a 2023 launch from developer Little Leo Games and writer and writer Akupara Games. More particularly, the sport is Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles, a self-described as a “dice-deck-building roguelike.”
Upon launch, the sport garnered a really strong 85 on Metacritic. Meanwhile, on Steam, the PC model of the sport has over 2,700 person opinions, 92 % of which fee the sport positively. As a end result, the sport has a “Very Positive” score on Steam. All of that is to say, each critics and shoppers suggest it.
“Astrea is a dice-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders through the use of cube as an alternative of playing cards and a singular twin ‘injury’ system: Purification vs Corruption,” reads an official pitch of the sport for these unfamiliar with it. “Build a cube pool sturdy sufficient to purify Astrea’s out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.”
Normally, Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles prices $24.99, so this new Epic Games Store provide encompasses a good little bit of financial savings. Meanwhile, the sport packs about 10 to 25 hours of core content material in, with the variance splitting the distinction between a mainline playthrough and a playthrough that dives into the aspect content material. Completionists, nonetheless, will want nearer to 50 hours with the sport.
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