Railway Empire
Railway Empire is a tycoon simulation game that brings all the drama and excitement of running your own rail company, starting in 1830’s America as you expand your business from coast to coast across 100 years of booming industry.
In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition. You’ll also need to hire and manage your workforce if you want to ensure an efficient train service, whilst also develop over 300 technologies ranging from mechanical improvements to the trains themselves to workplace infrastructures and advanced amenities as you progress through five eras of technological innovations.
However, you can’t just build and research your way to the top – the competition never sleeps, and to keep your business on track you’ll have to survive against up to three rival tycoons. To get to the top you may have to resort to more cutthroat tactics as you attack and sabotage your opponents through raids and industrial espionage.
OnceRailway Empire and Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, the current free games on the Epic Games Store, have run their course, it will be up to Stick It to The Man!, which will be gratis starting September 17 until September 24, 2020.
Stick It to The Man! is a mind-reading game set in a paper and sticker universe, mixing platforming and adventure gaming.
The story is about this poor guy called Ray, who ends up in coma and wakes up with a 16-foot pink spaghetti arm sticking out of his head. The arm gives him the power to actually listen to anyone’s thoughts, which he hears as an inner monologue. But that’s not all — he can also put thoughts into people’s heads, change what they think about, and even pull objects out from peoples thoughts.
As you can imagine, this power is pretty useful. Soon enough, Ray finds himself being chased down by strange agents and a mysterious character called The Man.
Stick It to The Man! features a cast of over a 100 interesting characters (each character can be mind-read), such as a disco dancing mafia Don that isn’t shy of getting the competition “taken care of”, a balding Yeti with a love crush on her hairy guard, a psychiatric warden with a split personality disorder and even good old Santa makes a short visit. It’s like Christmas, but stranger!
The dialogue is written by Adventure Time writer Ryan North, over 10 hours of voice acting, and you’ll laugh playing the game… if not, well you might actually be dead. Ehhm..Sorry!
At any point in the game you can activate something we call mega-pulsating-brain-mode (we could also call it mind-reading mode, but that didn’t sound as cool). All characters on screen (even animals and the occasional ghost) will reveal their brains and you can then slap The Arm into their brain. This will enable you to listen to their most inner thoughts. You’ll get all the juicy details and whacky thoughts. What is the doctor really thinking when examining you? Is the old lady on the bus an alien? What or who did the crocodile eat for breakfast?
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is an adventure game, inspired by the folk tales and folk music of America, about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a wistfully imaginative game about traveling the land, sharing stories and surviving manifest destiny. Players wander through the United States - and through a century of history - encountering and exploring an eclectic variety of people, perspectives and personal tales along the way. This surreal journey into the heart of the country’s past features gorgeous illustration from Kellan Jett and Serenity Forge, blending dramatic 2D visuals with a 3D overworld map of the United States.
Good Shepherd Entertainment recently revealed the list of voice actors bringing life to Where the Water Tastes Like Wine’s many compelling stories, including renowned singer-songwriter, musician and actor Sting, Dave Fennoy (The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series), Cissy Jones (Firewatch), Kimberly Brooks (Mass Effect) and more.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is available on nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC, Mac and Linux (Steam).