Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Crashlands are free on Epic Store

Yes, it's Thursday, and yes, we're writing about free games on Epic Store, business as usual. Well, almost as usual, since now you will need two-factor authentication.

For this week, we have one of the most popular and most influential horror games of the last decade, Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Amnesia is a game that helped shape the Youtube landscape back in the early 2010s. It was a go-to game for the early days of "let's play" Youtubers, who find it to be a perfect title for their sessions and something their fans liked - watching them screaming in horror and jumping out of fear. 

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The game popularized the type of horror where you as a player are helpless and that was one of the biggest appeals of the game, besides the general creepiness of the atmosphere and the intriguing story. The fact that you can not answer the threat was the real horror, your only solution was to hide and wait for monsters to go away, that was the type of horror that made the experience that much more horrifying. Going around and trying to solve puzzles while knowing that something is watching and can get you at any moment is what made this game so truly scary and a cult classic amongst horror games.

If you haven't played the game before, we strongly recommend you to try it now when it's free on Epic Games.

The second free game this week is Crashlands, a story-driven Crafting ARPG. We play as Flux Dabes, a galactic trucker whose latest shipment gets derailed by a chin-strapped alien menace named Hewgodooko, leaving you stranded on an alien planet.  The game feature crafting system with over 500 craftable items, about which we learn as we explore the planet and find out new stuff.

There's also a base-building system, RPG-style character progression, skill-based combat, and you can even take creatures from the world and make them your sidekicks!

The real appeal of this game come in its huge world, spreading across three continents with beautiful locations waiting for you to explore them and find out their secrets.

Both of these games will be free until 7 May, and the free game for the next week is Death Coming (Not Stranding!)