The Epic Games Store Free Games For November 16 Focus on Learning From the Past

The free games promotion for the Epic Games Store has served as a great way to get players talking about the storefront for many years, and will continue to offer interesting freebies for the foreseeable future. Changing out every Thursday at 10 AM CT, players know exactly when they can check Epic Games to see what titles are now available, and what will be available the week before. That's how players knew about the missing free Epic Games title for November 3 before it failed to show up the day of.

Despite the fact that players couldn't get F.I.S.T: Forged in Shadow Torch last week, they could still get Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion, a humorous hack-and-slash adventure about a little root vegetable that doesn't think about the consequences of ripping up government documents. Almost to go alongside Turnip Boy's strange presence in players' libraries, Golden Light is currently the Epic Games Store freebie, with Earthlock and Surviving the Aftermath set to follow behind it starting on November 16.

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Epic Games Store Free Game Earthlock Explained

Aiming to replicate late 90s RPGs such as Final Fantasy 7 and the Tales of series, Earthlock invites players onto the planet Umbra in an adventure that starts simple, but grows into something greater that tests the party's heroic might. Much like its inspirations, Earthlock promises to give fans a tactical turn-based RPG with detailed combat and interesting characters, with plenty of side features to keep players invested through its runtime. Leaning purposefully into old iconic RPG tropes, there's naturally a few secrets hidden away in ruins, forgotten locations, and artifacts that play an important key role in Earthlock's story.

Epic Games Store Free Game Surviving the Aftermath Explained

In Surviving the Aftermath, the world has already ended, and its up to players to make sure that whoever's left standing lives to see their time in this new world through. While Surviving the Aftermath typically goes on sale every so often, offering the city builder at the same time as the RPG Earthlock leaves players with many hours of playtime at no extra cost if fans get both titles. Surviving the Aftermath has been criticized for not following through on its story setting, but it offers truly addictive, complex, and fun city-building mechanics.

Surviving the Aftermath and Earthlock Both Share a Theme of What Came Before

There's a reoccurring theme between both games that ties them together, and that's the fact that the characters in both games learn from the world they've left behind in different ways. Even if Surviving the Aftermath may not use its post-apocalyptic world in its favor, it still deals with moving on from the old world and learning to make the best of the new one the survivors built. As Earthlock deals with the party learning the secrets to the artifact sharing the same name as the title, tying it to an old civilization that came centuries before, the two Epic Games Store free games come together with a message that learning from the past is important for the sake of the future.

Another important detail that these games have in common is that if players like the experience given to them for free, Surviving the Aftermath has plenty of DLC packs to extend the game's replayability, and Earthlock has a sequel in the works currently. As a result, picking both games up as part of the promotion could lead them to find a new favorite game to enjoy long after the freebies are switched out.

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