FREE Games of the Day #4 April 27th, 2019

Paul Rudd · April 27, 2019

Game #1 Credit to @FIXXX for bringing to my attention that Gone Home is FREE to download over at Humble Bundle until May 3rd, 2019.

Steam link... Gone Home. It released to Steam ALMOST 6 YEARS AGO, August 15th, 2013 and has 11,137 Mostly Positive reviews.

Developed by Fullbright, it's a relaxing atmospheric story rich interactive exploration simulator with a great soundtrack. Interrogate every detail of a seemingly normal house to discover the story of the people who live there. Open any drawer and door. Pick up objects and examine them to discover clues. Uncover the events of one family's lives by investigating what they've left behind.

It's a personal story created by veterans of the Bioshock series and the story team behind Minerva's Den. It offers the rich, nuanced details of one family's struggles to deal with uncertainty, heartache, and change. It takes place in an immersive environment. You return to the 1990s by visiting a home where every detail has been carefully recreated, and the sounds of a rainstorm outside wrap you in the experience. There's no combat and no puzzles. It invites you to play at your own pace without getting attacked, stuck, or frustrated. This house wants you to explore it. It's a fully interactive investigation. You discover what's happened to the Greenbriars by examining a house full of the family's personal possessions, and the notes and letters they've left behind. You use your powers of observation to piece together a story that unfolds as you explore. There's also over 90 minutes of behind-the-scenes commentary by the developers, musicians, and voice talent.

Game #2 Himno is a FREE game released to Steam YESTERDAY, April 26th, 2019 and already has 73 Very Positive reviews and climbing FAST.

Developed by David Moralejo Sanchez, it's a relaxing peaceful atmospheric pixel graphic 2D platformer with a great soundtrack and an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. It was created a long time ago as a private project which the developer played to de-stress himself. Little by little he was getting in love, and that's why he decided to share it for free. Your actions in the world trigger emotional soundtracks and vibrant visuals. You wall-jump, slide, and dash onto moving platforms and lifts. You play at your own pace without pressure and watch bright things dance around you. It's a great game to play for a little while every now and then to discover some new maps.

Game #3 Time Break is a FREE game released to Steam TODAY, April 27th, 2019 and has 8 Mostly Positive reviews.

Developed by a student through the University of Utah Entertainment Arts and Engineering Program, it's a game set in an alternate reality where you are a police officer training to serve the public with your standard issue time slowing and rewind watch. Assess, resume time, and stop the crime. Keep the city safe from a deadly group against the manipulation of time. Every level will start in stopped time. This allows you to survey the environment. Take in what crime is happening and what you can use to stop it. Maybe it's throwing a trash can lid at a robber or exploding a can of spray paint with a lighter. Each level is filled with multiple solutions to solve each scenario. When you're ready, resume the flow of time and stop the crime using whatever you can in the environment. If you fail, the level automatically rewinds time back to the start of the crime. Try and try again until you successfully stop the crime and save the city.

Bonus Game #4 Kreedz Climbing is a FREE game released to Steam 22 MONTHS AGO, June 15th, 2017 and has 728 Mostly Positive reviews.

Developed by ObsessionSoft, it's the ultimate non-violent 3D platformer. It's a special kind of jump, run and race puzzle platformer in 3D. It's a very challenging movement based game that can be very addictive. Whether casually or in strong competition, there is always something to learn and do! The challenge is to beat the course in the fastest time possible(eventually). A checkpoint system allows you to return to a saved position if you fail, but you are truly a great "Ath1337" if you can beat the courses without them.

You learn(eventually) the core 7 disciplines in the tutorial, then find the rest in the various maps. You jump, surf, bunny-hop, bungee, powerjump, double-duck, long jump, raceway, b-hop raceway through deathtraps and flare targets. There are single discipline and multiple discipline courses and 120+ maps to choose from. There's natural, rural, suburban, city, space and surreal maps. Each map is totally unique and may even have multiple courses. One of the coolest things in the game is the mix. Some maps may have one course, others have many and the combinations of disciplines and special abilities are limitless. A single course may be one discipline, but may also require mastering many of them to beat.

There's both single player and multiplayer. There's a hide and seek mode where seekers chase the runners. There's special pick-ups for the runners to help them keep away from the extremely mobile seekers who have powerjump and a special seeker vision to their advantage. The chasing can get VERY wild!

You can create your own maps using Valve's own Hammer world editor. It has a very large amount of special functions and entities ready for you that are completely unique to the game. There are a million ways to make a map. If you are openly creative, mapping could be your thing because in the game you can create pretty much anything!

You earn medals to unlock items when you beat maps online or when alone. These medals allow you to buy items from the Special Item Shop. When your timer is not running, you can goof around in the map all you like, look for short cuts and special jumps and use these items to assist you.

You can complete things alone, with friends or with friends just hanging around. Co-op maps must be played with 2-4 players using boosting and same time puzzle actions. You can create your own server for your friends to play on with Create Server on the main menu.

You can draw on the walls in the game! Whatever comes to mind. With many colors and sizes, it's a lot of fun!

The community is hands down one of the nicest and most helpful game communities.

Reminder Game As mentioned on this series as a demo that would release to Steam, Lonely is now available on Steam for $1.99(I nailed the price tag).