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Arcade Paradise and Maid of Sker Free On Epic Games Store, F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch And Olympics Go! Paris 2024 Costume Pack Next Week

by Rainier on July 18, 2024 @ 10:16 a.m. PDT

For the next week, the Epic Games Store is offering one title for free: Arcade Paradise and Maid of Sker.

Arcade Paradise

Welcome to Arcade Paradise, the 90’s-fuelled retro arcade adventure. You play as Ashley, and you’ve just been given the keys to the family laundromat. Rather than washing rags for a living, you decide to turn the laundromat into the ultimate arcade.

Take the laundromat business made up of dull chores from washing clothes to throwing out the trash, and turn it into a booming arcade with the coolest games in town raking in all the money!

Over 35 arcade games, each fully realized with its own gameplay, stories, missions and high scores to set! Inspired by 3 decades of gaming, from early vector games right up to the 32-bit era.

Insert a second coin and play against a friend in a number of co-operative & competitive arcade games up to 4 players locally.

Prove yourself across each game, set your high scores, make your favourite arcade game more popular and upload to the online leaderboards.

From the individual games to choosing what song to put on the jukebox inspired by some of the great records of the early 90s, the soundtrack captures the heart of a bygone era.

Doug Cockle (famous for his voice acting in Victor Vran and The Witcher series) plays the role of Ashley’s berating father. Being too busy in the Riviera to see King Wash for himself, you will receive many phone calls from Gerald sharing his wise words of advice and constant reminders to fix the toilet.

Once Arcade Paradise and Maid of Sker, the current free games on the Epic Games Store, have run their course, it will be up to it will be up to F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch and Olympics Go! Paris 2024 Costume Pack, which will be gratis starting July 25 until August 1, 2024.

F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch

Explore more than a dozen unique areas in a Metroidvania style map. The Fist, Drill, and Whip are three weapons with completely different fighting styles that offer seamless switching between high combo, high damage, and long range attacks.

Six years ago, the Machine Legion invaded and colonized the Torch City, which was originally inhabited by animals. Rayton, the former soldier in the resistance war, has been living in seclusion since then. After his friend is forcibly arrested, Rayton reclaims his mechanical fist and steps to his journey fighting back. And he never expects that he has been involved in a bigger scheme between the mafia, the rebellion, and the legion.

Exploring the Metroidvania game world with a dozen of areas with distinguishing vision themes and level designs. Earning the rewards by conquering the challenges of combats, puzzles and platformers in countless chambers, tunnels and shortcuts. Interconnected and automatically loading game map makes the detailed Torch City more convincing and beautiful.

Mastering the Fist, the Drill and the Whip, depending on the situation of the battlefield, switch your advantages between the long hits, the high damage and the wide range, taking every enemy standing in front of you down. Dozens of enemies wielding their unique weapons challenge you with exquisite cooperation tactics, and various bosses with totally different combat patterns provides you never repeated experience.

The combining of the dieselpunk aesthetics and the oriental-style architecture constructs the core visual style of Torch City, exposing the world with the intense conflict between the furry animals and the mechanical army from their appearance to the nature.

Powered by Unreal Engine 4 with physically based rendering and extremely detailed textures, presenting a gorgeous 3D visual performance and pushing the genre to a whole new level.

Olympics Go! Paris 2024

Experience the magic of the Olympic Games Paris 2024! Achieve athletic excellence in 12 sports mini-games while expanding various Olympic venues to grow your dream city. Rise to the top of the leaderboards and bring home the glory!

Exclusive Outfits pack

Pack of sport outfits bearing the official mascot from the Paris 2024 Olympics

Maid of Sker

Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from British folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!

Set in 1898 and inspired by the haunting Welsh tale of Elisabeth Williams, this is a story of a family empire driven by torture, slavery, piracy and a supernatural mystery that suffocates the grounds of the hotel.

Dreated and developed by Wales Interactive with a plot crafted by the writing talent and designers behind the likes of SOMA, Don’t Knock Twice and Battlefield 1.

Features

  • 3D sound-based AI system as the core survival mechanic.
  • Realistic visuals featuring 4k uncapped on PC (1080p 60fps minimum).
  • A chilling story inspired by Welsh folklore fusing psychological, gothic and British horror.
  • Re-imagining of famous Welsh hymns Calon Lân (A Pure Heart), Suo-Gân (Welsh Lullaby) and Ar Hyd Y Nos (All Through the Night) from the spine-chilling voice of Tia Kalmaru.
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