Plus mountaineering roguelikelike Insurmountable
This week’s headline free game on the Epic Games Store is a goodie:XCOM 2. You have one week to grab Firaxis’s sequel to their alien-busting turn-based tactics game, the streamlined reboot of ye olde X-COM games. XCOM 2 is a good game, well worth grabbing for free! Also free right now isInsurmountable, a roguelikelike mountaineering game.
Hit the Epic Games Storebefore 4pm on Thursday the 21st and you can grab these two free for keepsies.
If you do want the whole shebang, the Epic Store is currently offering an 80% discount on a pack with XCOM 2’s expansion and all the DLC packs. Grab the base game for free and you can upgrade to get the rest for only £7.99. That discount lasts until the 28th. It’s more expensive thanthe Steam discountin February but still a great price.
Today has also brought Insurmountable’s big version 2.0 update. It brings a new story, a new tutorial, side-missions with procedurally generated maps, and more. That update’s hitting the Steam and GOG versions too, obvs.
After these two, the next freebies will be first-person horrorAmnesia: Rebirthand top-down co-op monster-masher Riverbond. Thursday the 21st for those.
Looking for more free games? Read our round-up of thelatest free games on the Epic Games Store, as well as our list of thebest free PC gamesyou can play today. Want to take your free Epic games on the go? Then here’show to install the Epic Games launcher on your Steam Deck.
