With the latest Epic Games Store weekly free deals now available, Epic has turned its gaze to the distant future in seven days' time, confirming that the acclaimed cyberpunk parkour action adventure Ghostrunner will be its next free title starting Thursday, April 11 .
Ghostrunner, which launched to widespread acclaim in October 2020, cast players as protagonist Jack as they scale the dystopian Dharma Tower, humanity's last refuge after a cataclysmic event, in a quest to overthrow the tyrannical Keymaster and exact revenge. .
What follows is brutally difficult first-person parkour action, as players jump and leap across neon-stained levels, dispatching enemies in breathless, dancing katana attacks. Unless they're terrible at it like me, in which case they'll bumble around the place, forget which buttons they're supposed to press, and then quit in a huff.
“Ghostrunner is a game about acrobatic routines, how to devise them and perform them,” wrote Eurogamer's Robert Purchese in his Recommended review in 2020. “You're an incredibly agile character who can wall-run, slide, swing, and dash.” move and even slow down time. But you're also an incredibly fragile character who will die in one hit from anything. Ghostrunner's challenge, then, is a kind of grace: not getting hit while also getting close enough to hit and slash. others.”
So Ghostrunner is a good thing (plus its soundtrack is great) and will be free to download and keep via the Epic Games Store for a week starting Thursday, April 11. That means you still have plenty of time to download Epic's current freebies, which, if you missed the news last week, look an awful lot like it. The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition and 2014 Thief Reboot.
