Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:56:20 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: FREE GAMES: "Toem" and "The Last Stand: Aftermath" Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:56:20 -0400 Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 34 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-2PQ57Vtoyb+R9182MDuoRK+sbHheLbSKS+oMGfZLYBYpIgpml5t6XClZK19Yc4oTaRpk09vBYvidvkr!RaU1ZCBQ/oafbI/BGEG2AI5aPr7CsYe/bNK8ANNUYaY3K2Pnhspq+cUSCCnnKM8T2JphNujN X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2359 Oops, I'm running late here. Better announce these games before Ant or rms or whomever sneak in and steal my precious Internet Points. Quick, Epic, what you got for us this week? * TOEM: A Photo Adventure https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/toem This one is an adventure game where you solve puzzles by 'taking pictures' of various scenes and objects. The gameplay is obviously not the main draw here; instead, it's the hand-drawn (or the illusion of being hand- drawn) visuals. It's not the sort of game I'd ever want to PAY for, but as a freebie I think it's worth a look just to enjoy the graphics. * The Last Stand: Aftermath https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-last-stand-aftermath This is more my usual style: it's a game with zombies and shooting. But beyond that, it doesn't have much going for it; "Aftermath" is the usual top-down survival- horror game. It's not a bad game - it's got nice visuals and it's a single-player experience- but it lacks novelty (and could use a little more polish). It's fine. Neither game this week are 'must haves' -they're a bit niche and fairly middle-of-the-road in quality and mechanics- but they're not bad games either. They're free, so what do you have to lose? See you next week, Epic!