Summary
- Epic Games Store offers a free game each week until 10 AM CT on Thursdays when a new game is added, giving players a chance to try new experiences at no cost.
- Recent free games Industria and Lisa: Definitive Edition explore surreal worlds, while Orcs Must Die 3 offers a colorful tower defense experience.
- Epic Games Store's variety in free game offerings keeps users guessing and coming back for more, with surprises to look forward to each week.
As another Thursday comes and goes, the Epic Games Store once again changes what fans can get for free as a perk for using the platform. Serving as an important tradition that makes Epic's digital storefront stand out, at least one game is offered for free until 10 AM CT the following Thursday. It serves as a great opportunity for players to pick up some interesting new experiences at no extra charge, be it something new or possibly a personal favorite, just by checking the Epic Games Store regularly.
While this free games promotion has been going on for roughly six years, give or take, not all weeks are treated equally. While some weeks may be significant in that they offer not one free title, but two, the week of May 2 on the Epic Games Store marks a return to the service offering just a singular freebie. However, if players act fast, they have a chance to still grab the two games added to the store on April 25 - Industria and Lisa: Definitive Edition - before May 2's Orcs Must Die 3 replaces them.
Epic Games Store's Three Free Games For April 25 Make Players Leave Behind the Worlds They Knew Before
Epic Games Store's three free games for April 25 are a great bargain, inviting players into strange worlds where things aren't as they seem.
Epic Games Store's Free Games for April 25 Explained
Industria and Lisa: Definitive Edition may be completely different on the surface, but they deal with surreal, melancholy worlds that challenge everything the protagonist knew before. Industria stars Nora, a girl who uses a device called the ATLAS to chase after her coworker Walter to end up in a run-down world where the same device is threatening the world, while Lisa: Definitive Edition gives players an RPG experience starring an adoptive father and daughter duo aiming to survive the unforgiving world of Olathe.
Lisa: Definitive Edition may be listed as one game, but it's actually a bundle featuring Lisa: The Painful and its sequel Lisa: The Joyful, meaning that if players act fast, they can technically get four games between April 25 and May 2.
Epic Games Store Free Game Orcs Must Die 3 Explained
As the third game in the Orcs Must Die series that started in 2011, Orcs Must Die 3 is a colorful and cartoony tower defense game where the player's goal is exactly as the title says. Using weapons, upgrades, and all manner of traps, fans will need to slice, throw, and mutilate a horde of different unique enemies in numerous ways in order to survive the game's levels that won't get exhausted when players finish the story. If players wish to simply pass the time with the main campaign, that will still take some time, as it has a 16 hour playthrough length on its own.
Orcs Must Die! 3
- Released
- July 14, 2020
WHERE TO PLAY
Orcs Must Die! 3 ushers orc-slaying mayhem to a previously unimaginable scale. Solo, or 2 player co-op, arm yourself with a massive arsenal of traps and weapons. Slice, burn, toss and zap hordes of repugnant orcs in this long-awaited successor to the award-winning series.
New to the series, War Scenarios pit players against the largest orc armies ever assembled. Mountable War Machines give players the essential firepower to heave, stab, carbonize, and disarticulate the abominable intruders.
Orcs Must Die! 3 is everything fans loved about the first two games and more. More orcs, more traps, more weapons, more upgrades and even better looking. It’s cranked up to at least eleven.
Play through a brand new story set more than 20 years after Orcs Must Die! 2, where the War Mage and Sorceress have rebuilt the order and trained new young apprentices.
All new War Scenarios deliver on the promise of massive scale first set out in Orcs Must Die! Confront overwhelming armies of orcs outside on the battlefields surrounding the castles. Thin out waves of orcs hundreds strong before they breach the walls and crash your rift.
- Developer(s)
- Robot Entertainment
- Publisher(s)
- Robot Entertainment
- Platform(s)
- PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Stadia
- Genre(s)
- Tower Defense
- How Long To Beat
- 10 Hours
- Metascore
- 77
What the Epic Games Store Free Games Line Up Until May 9 Offer Players
Until May 9 sees Orcs Must Die 3 get rotated out, the current line up of free games on the Epic Games Store could easily be called "all over the place." Lisa: Definitive Edition dubs itself a "life-ruining" experience, Industria features a short story that promises to be profound to its players, and Orcs Must Die 3 rounds up the pack with an art style similar to Crash Bandicoot with fantastical and fun violence. This is one of the things that makes the Epic Games Store free games promotion so fun in that fans are left guessing about what's next.
Outside the occasional leak, gamers have no idea what Epic Games has lined up for its free game page, which leads to times when the titles listed are completely different from one another, or coincidences where two games serve as a weekly treat for those who come back to the storefront for more. This makes it so all kinds of Epic Games Store users can find something that interests them for free with ease, thanks to the variety offered.
