Summary
- Epic Games Store offers a variety of free games every week, with new titles available every Thursday at 10 AM CT.
- The current free games on the store, Soulstice and Model Builder, will be replaced by Godlike Burger, a sci-fi restaurant management game.
- Godlike Burger offers a unique twist by allowing players to serve alien customers by trapping and killing them, providing a cartoony yet dark gameplay experience.
As it aims to showcase a wide variety of games through every month in the year, the free titles offered on the Epic Games Store are bound to share some similarities between each other more often than not. In case they don't -- or only one title is available at no extra cost that week -- then they may use their opposites to give gamers a good choice to choose from, like the Epic Games Store free games available until October 5.
Indeed, variety is the spice of life, and that's a saying that the Epic Games Store giveaways represent rather well, as each week always offers something different, changing out at 10 AM CT every Thursday. At that time, last week's offers are swapped out for what was announced prior, and a new game is revealed alongside it; just as the current freebies, Soulstice and Model Builder, will be replaced with Godlike Burger. This science fiction adventure sees players running a restaurant, taking notes from the classics that came before it, along with some other roguelike video games to help its gameplay stay fresh and unpredictable.
Epic Games Store Free Game Godlike Burger Explained
Godlike Burger gives players an intergalactic venue deep in outer space, with their overall goal to make their little stall into a popular and well-known attraction that serves lots of customers. While cooking burgers and running the fast food restaurant, fans should attempt to earn as much money as they can to fund tools, upgrades, and perhaps jumps between planets. The game sports a similar vibe to other cartoony resource management titles like the Overcooked games, but due to the fact that Godlike Burger challenges players to adapt to serving alien customers, it may quickly become a gamer's goal to create the perfect all-inclusive out-of-this-world menu.
However, there's more to the cartoony cooking game than just being set in space. There's a secret ingredient involved that spices up the gameplay, and that's the fact that Godlike Burger serves its customers back to them. Players can trap their customers and kill them to stash their bodies to make patties out of them, which gives a whole new reason for the restaurant to change locations. The police may catch wind of the trend behind the recent disappearances and killings, serving as an opposing force to another recent Epic Games Store free game.
While this murderous twist makes Godlike Burger stand out among similar titles, it's far from the first piece of science fiction media to feature such a twist. In some thriller stories, it's often a twist that humans or other intelligent creatures are used to create food in secret, with one notable and iconic example being the film Soylent Green. Compared to the movie, which aimed to make social commentary on the effects of climate change, Godlike Burger aims to retain a certain level of cartoony whimsy while staring a secret maniac butcher.
As always with the Epic Games Store free game giveaways, all players need to do to obtain Godlike Burger once it's available is sign up or log into their account on the storefront. From there, the game will be theirs to play as much as they like. For the gamers who don't wish to slice up alien customers into burgers though, they'll have to wait and see what next week's offerings are once they go live to see if the next Epic Games Store free game is just right for them.