Every Thursday at 10:00am CT, theEpic Games Storegives away a new pair of free games and confirms the free games that users can look forward to next week. And so it comes as no surprise that theEpic Games Storehas released a pair of new free games for users to download and has pulled the curtain back on the free games that will be joining the service beginning Thursday, July 15.
From now until July 15,Epic Games Store users can downloadBridge Constructor: The Walking DeadandIroncastcompletely free of charge, no membership necessary and no strings attached.Bridge Constructor: The Walking Deadis a puzzle game where players build bridges to help characters from AMC’sThe Walking DeadTV series survive the zombie apocalypse.Ironcast, meanwhile, is a turn-based strategy game where characters utilize the titular Ironcast mechs.
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Come July 15 at 10:00am CT,Bridge Constructor: The Walking DeadandIroncastwill be cycled out of the Epic Games Store and replaced withObductionandOffworld Trading Company.Obductionleaked for the Epic Games Storeprior to the official announcement, though EGS managed to keep the lid onOffworld Trading Company, so its inclusion should be a surprise to users.
For the uninitiated,Obductionis a first-person adventure game in the same vein as theclassic adventure gameMyst, and is in fact made byMyst’s creators.Obductionearned somewhat mixed reviews at the time of its release, with some critics praising the game’s atmosphere and puzzles, and others taking issue with some technical problems that it reportedly had. In any case, it being free on Epic Games Store means puzzle fans can check it out without having to make any kind of financial commitment, so they shouldn’t be deterred by the mixed reception; Epic Games Store users can decide for themselves if the game is worth their time.
Offworld Trading Company, meanwhile, is quite a different experience thanObduction.Offworld Trading Companyis a real-time strategy game set on Mars where players compete with other corporations. It earned mostly positive reviews when it first launched in 2016, and so it should make a solid addition to anyone’slibrary of digital Epic Games Store free games.
Assuming the Epic Games Store sticks to its usual pattern,ObductionandOffworld Trading Companywill be removed from the free games lineup on Thursday, July 22, to be replaced by a pair of new games. It’s possible that EGS will go back to releasingmystery free games on the Epic Games Store, but the more likely scenario is that fans will know a week in advance what the next free games will be.
