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Epic Games Store Winter Giveaways 2021 - Get a free game every day till Dec 31st
#21
Thanks Batman

Looks like an interesting game.

taken from:-
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/vampyr

CURSED BE THE CHOICE…
London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal. Will you embrace the monster within? Your actions will save or doom London.

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detailed review at gamingtrend
Info taken from review
https://gamingtrend.com/feature/reviews/...pc-review/

v2
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If you are stepping into Vampyr thinking it’s going to be a heavy action title, I need to temper your expectations. Vampyr is, at its core, an Action/RPG. You will spend a lot of time talking to patients and passers by, solving their problems in exchange for trinkets and experience. As you talk to a local resident, they may reveal that their landlord is fleecing them for rent. Finding that landlord, you could mesmerize them (if your Mesmer level is higher than their resistance level) and lure them to a dark corner to feed upon them, but that could have dire consequences his tenants. Or, it could result in them being charged no rent whatsoever. The best parts of Vampyr is that it’s often hard to predict the lasting effects, even if the surface outcomes are apparent.

One of the major gameplay loops in Vampyr is dealing with the medical maladies that plague the streets of London. During conversation, you can check on a person’s physical state and give them medicines you’ve prepared back at the hospital. This improves the quality of their blood, which will yield higher XP amounts, but it also improves their health, which will obviously help the state of that ward of the city. There are nine maladies, of which only three are known at the beginning of the game. These can range from a simple headache to anemia, sepsis, migraines, pneumonia, and worse. A simple crafting engine lets you break down things like cheap gin into a glass vial, a watch into springs, screws, and grease, and so forth. These components are used to craft the aforementioned remedies, upgrades for your weapons, and serums that can help you regenerate stamina, health, or cure toxins. Much of the recipes you’ll learn come from decisions you’ll make at crucial story junctures, so don’t obsess about guy with the migraines — you’ll fix him up (and possibly serve him up) later.

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Another detailed review at
https://www.pcgamer.com/vampyr-review/

Info taken from review
I love this simulation aspect of Vampyr: learning to live with the curse, blending in, choosing when to feed, who to spare. But it’s the bits inbetween that disappoint. For every fleshed-out NPC there’s an endless parade of vampire hunters and feral vampires to kill in dull, repetitive combat sequences. You carve through so many of these guys that it cheapens Reid’s struggles with violence elsewhere. And the combat feels weightless, twitchy, and unsatisfying, with the floaty, frustrating third-person camera frequently getting stuck in corners and on bits of scenery, obscuring the action.

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In its favour, there’s a decent variety of ways to fight, from using melee weapons and guns, to more exotic vampire-related powers such as hurling spears made of blood at people and viciously clawing them to shreds. But these parts of the game are rarely more than passable, and their existence is actually to its overall detriment, feeling like a tiresome distraction. I can’t help but think that Vampyr would have been much better if the story and simulation elements were left to stand on their own—which I think they easily could have.

There’s a lot of interesting, high concept stuff in Vampyr, and I love how Dontnod has used the tropes of vampire fiction to create a simulation of life as a vampire. London makes for an atmospheric setting, with buildings looming ominously through the fog and a dark, oppressive feel to the cobbled streets. But it feels like a game at odds with itself, veering wildly from compelling, dialogue-driven storytelling, to flat, uninspiring action, and back again. I never really fell in love with Reid either, a grim, relentlessly self-serious chap whose charisma seems to have been sucked out of him along with his humanity.
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#22
December 24th - Today's free game is Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/...-kingmaker

Don't forget to claim the 2 free DLCs:

Arcane Unleashed https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/...-unleashed

Bloody Mess https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/...loody-mess

Tomorrow's game is Prey. The helmet from the cover art is featured in the mystery teaser.

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#23
December 25th - Today's game is Prey.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/prey

It includes the Mooncrash DLC.

The mystery teaser for tomorrow's giveaway has a hand gesture, that is similar to the one in Control.
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#24
By the French leaker, epic game store will have control standard edition for free on 12/26 at 11am ET.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/control
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#25
December 26th - Today's free game is Control Standard Edition.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/control.

Tomorrow's free game may be Mages of Mystralia.

Leaked list :


27th. Mages of Mystralia
 
28th. Moving Out
 
29th. Salt & Sanctuary

 30th. Tomb Raider Trilogy
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#26
Thanks  Mike and Batman.

Added Control to my library. It looks an excellent game.

Taken from:-
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/control

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Taken from and detailed review at:-
https://www.pcgamer.com/control-review/

Control is an acrobatic third-person shooter set in an amorphous concrete dimension infested by the sanitized office culture of a 1960s-era government bureaucracy. Aside from a poo beast, you'll discover new powers and revisit areas of The Oldest House to find upgrades, secrets, and side missions, all while throwing bullets and random objects at bad guys in Remedy's best combat system yet.


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Remedy's taking a harder thwack at weird fiction than ever before, too. Despite a few weak characters and plot threads, the team succeeds. In Control, every conspiracy theory, ghost encounter, and alien abduction happened, just not quite for the reasons you'd expect. It's a collection of stories about seeing through the banality of everyday life, a story about language, mass media, and statecraft delivered with a dry sense of humor and no tether to reason. I still don't understand it. I don't need to. Bless this mess.


With a complete arsenal of abilities, I'm able to bounce around the big, multi-tiered arenas like Superman with a handgun permit. But before I found the dash and shield abilities, and before I finished enough missions to upgrade my health and energy reserves, I was too often pinned to a corner and easily overwhelmed. It doesn't take terribly long to get up to snuff, but early combat encounters are frustrating compared to what follows.

When you're fully powered-up, Remedy's love of flying objects comes to the fore. The Oldest House's tidy environments are like water. Every dash sends papers flying, coffee cups crashing. Jesse can toss any object in the environment with her brain, turning banal office spaces and retro futurist underground labs into disaster areas. Levitating pulls errant objects into Jesse's orbit, like lazy little moons: staplers, rubble, pencils, printers, corpses. Max Payne would be proud.

Control is a top-tier mess-making simulator. Jesse's telekinesis joins Half-Life 2's juiced gravity gun in the videogame physics toy hall of fame.
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#27
December 27th - Today's free game is Mages of Mystralia.


https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/...-mystralia
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#28
Thanks Batman

Added to my library.

Mages of Mystralia.

Image from:-
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/...-mystralia
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Excellent Detailed review and info taken from:-
https://www.gamerdating.com/article/mage...lia-review
Go read the full review!


Sassy spell books, grumpy mentors, and goblins galore. Welcome to Mystralia!

Mages of Mystralia is a bright, colourful single-player adventure, with an engaging story, memorable characters and tricky puzzles that challenge the player to think creatively. Join Zia, a novice mage in a world where magic is outlawed, as she sets out on an epic quest to learn more about her gift and save Mystralia from the forces of evil. 


Image from:-
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/...-mystralia
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Combining the talented team at Borealys Games with Ed Greenwood’s brilliant fantasy narrative, this game will definitely have you hooked from the very first spell!

Image from:-
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The world of Mystralia is full of bright colours with a wonderful art style. The cutscenes and loading screens are filled with brilliant illustrations, and the menus are well designed with attractive flourishes that are entirely in keeping with the fantasy feel of the game. However, when the game is first loaded, the player may need to adjust the brightness settings in order to more easily see Zia against the background. The lack of contrast in some areas can make it difficult to see which direction Zia is facing, which can make a huge difference to the accuracy of the puzzle solving and combat in the game.

Image from:-
https://www.gamerdating.com/article/mage...lia-review
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The sound quality of the voiceover for the opening cutscene is excellent and quickly draws you in to the mythology of Mystralia. Currently, there are some difficulties with the sound differentiation during the main game, however there is a patch coming soon to fix this.

Image from:-
https://www.gamerdating.com/article/mage...lia-review
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The game map is beautifully rendered and includes snippets of lore about each of the areas you can visit, however the text is quite small even in docked mode, which can make it difficult to read. The user interface makes it easy to find your current location and the use of exclamation marks lets you know exactly where you need to go next. This can be particularly useful if you’ve been on a side quest or puzzle hunting for a while as a tool to get you back on track with the main story.
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#29
December 28th - Today's free game is Moving Out.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/moving-out

The mystery teaser for tomorrow has a salt shaker, that pretty much confirms the 2D souls-like game, Salt and Sanctuary.
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#30
Thanks Batman

Added to library. Moving Out Looks like a fun game.

Detailed reviews at :-
https://www.ign.com/articles/moving-out-review
https://www.gamesradar.com/moving-out-review/


Info taken from:-
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/moving-out

About This Game
Moving Out is a ridiculous physics-based moving simulator that brings new meaning to "couch co-op"!

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Are you ready for an exciting career in furniture? As a newly certified Furniture Arrangement & Relocation Technician, you’ll take on moving jobs all across the busy town of Packmore. Smooth Moves may not be the biggest moving company, but there’s no task too dangerous or strange for this busy team of go-getters. Grow your business to brave new heights, recruit colourful customizable characters, and save your town from furniture peril!

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Co-op!
Enjoy the story mode solo as an independent contractor or team up with some friends. Up to four players can cozy up on the couch to argue over the best way to move a couch. Test your skills AND your friendship!


Physics!
Are pesky doors and windows standing in your furniture’s way? Just blast through them with physics! Lift, toss and smash your way to the fastest times!

Action!
Learn the ropes in a series of increasingly precarious and fantastical moving jobs. How a bed gets from point A to point B is never a straight line, so throw out the training manual and get creative!

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Adventure!
Every moving company starts small, but as your reputation ranks up, so do your destinations. Move through sleepy suburbs, frenzied farms, haunted houses, virtual reality and lands beyond!

Characters!
Recruit a unique cast of colorful characters, each packed with a passion for manual labor!

Assist Mode!
Are you a rookie? No problem! Adjust the game’s difficulty so anyone can play!
Don’t wait! Grab your friends and become a certified moving master in Moving Out!


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