Free PC games from EGS, GOG, Humble, Steam, etc.

Steam Summer sale will be 23rd June to the 7th of July.

That is all.

I wonder if there are specific deals between publishers and Steam/etc. that dictate the maximum discount a game can receive, or if each discount is agreed upon separately.

There are games that never went below 35-40% off despite being super old at this point.

I paid exactly one euro for the Switch version. Worth it tho. The controls take some getting used to, but I think it aged fairly well... much better than many of its contemporaries for sure.

This new version gives you an optional rewind feature, but is otherwise the same as the original. And yes, luckily the filter can be disabled.

Wonder if this sequel will just disregard Fade To Black.

I mean Fade To Black was janky and awful so they probably should ignore it. Just curious.

I'll have to play the new one before i can pass judgement, I'd rather it was another 2D rotoscoped affair, but that's the times I guess.

While F2B is pretty crap now, I think it deserves a little slack given it was a very early attempt at 3d 3rd person gameplay. A lot of games were struggling with how to adapt to 3d controls at that point.

I mean it's pre-Tomb Raider, pre-Quake, pre-Mario 64. It came out around the same time as Dark Forces and Hexen.
And Bioforge... which was awesome at the time, but these days also comes across as a very clumsy attempt at 3rd person controls.

But yeah, it was a pain in the butt to control.

Yeah, there were also flight sim and racing games, and probably things like Virtua Fighter or Virtua Cop.
But it was definitely early days for full 3d 3rd person games.

1st person, but Robocop 3!

If you want to get super pedantic, the first full polygon shooter from a 3rd person perspective was I Robot from 1984 or so. If you want to narrow it down to something more prescriptive like a human figure walking around an environment, it’s probably Hunter from 1991, which was way ahead of its time in multiple areas.

There's about 30 free games on Amazon's Prime Gaming at the moment in the lead up to Prime Day. Some of them require you to redeem them on Legacy Games (no idea)

They made Body Harvest where you're fighting an alien invasion. Open maps and snatching vehicles make it feel a little like a precursor to GTA 3, but I don't know how much influence it actually had on that.

Gave it a go. Really fun.

Kids will be happy. They've been pestering me to get it for ages. 
It's also free on Switch, etc.. and I assume it has crossplay? 

I guess it just depends on how aggressive the monetization is. 

Car mechanic sim 2018 on EGS;

store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/car-mechanic-simulator-2018

Iratus Lord of the Dead next week! I missed the Darkest Dungeon chat in another thread but this is Darkest Dungeon Lite - they do a great job of taking away the attritional elements so you can zip through it. Well worth playing.

Virtuaverse free on GOG at the mo.