Sickly sweet
Costume Quest 2is the current freebie on the Epic Games Store, offered up as part of their 15 days of free games. You’ve got until 4pm GMT/8am PT tomorrow to add it to your account, after which it’s yours to keep forever.
You can grabCostume Quest 2here, where it would normally set you back £12. (Except for when they gave it away for freetwo years ago.)
TheCostume Questseries has a simple central conceit: what if Halloween costumes actually transformed you into whatever the costume depicted? The answer is a simplistic RPG in which you explore a world where sugar and costumes are not allowed, with plenty of expected Double Fine charm. Unfortunately Alec struggled with it a bit upon release 8 years ago, due to its combat and systems overly familiar from the first game:
There’s a good chance that ifyouplayed the first game that it was 12 years ago, which maybe makes it less likely those systems will be overly familiar to you.
Epic are offering 15 free games as part of their winter sale. Theykicked off the freebies with Bloons TD 6, a generous tower defense ‘em up that’s one of the best rated games on Steam. The discounts in the sale are pretty decent, too, and include 25% off vouchers for all games.
