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With the Epic Games Store’s latest weekly freebie offers now live, Epic has cast its eye to the far-flung future of seven days time, confirming acclaimed cyberpunk action-parkour adventure Ghostrunner will be its next free title from Thursday, 11th April.
Ghostrunner, which launched back in October 2020, cast players as Jack as they attempt to scale the dystopian Dharma Tower – humanity’s last shelter following a cataclysmic event – to topple the tyrannical Keymaster and take their revenge.
All that takes the form of some brutally difficult first-person parkour action, as players leap and bound their way across neon-smeared levels, eliminating enemies in bouts of breathlessly balletic katana swinging. Unless you’re terrible at it like me, in which case you’ll lumber clumsily around the place, forget which buttons you’re supposed to press then quit in a furious rage.
“Ghostrunner is a game about acrobatic routines, about devising them and performing them,” Eurogamer’s Robert Purchese wrote in his Recommended review back in 2020. “You’re an incredibly agile character who can wall-run, slide around, swing around, dash around and even slow time. But you’re also an incredibly fragile character who will die in one blow from anything. The challenge of Ghostrunner, therefore, is a kind of elegance: not getting hit while simultaneously getting close enough to hit and slice apart others.”
Ghostrunner is good stuff then (plus its soundtrack is superb) and it’ll be free to download and keep via the Epic Games Store for one week starting Thursday, 11th April. That means you’ve still got plenty of time to download Epic’s current freebies, which, if you missed the news last week, look an awful lot like The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition and 2014’s Thief reboot.
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