The Epic Games Store Free Games For April 18 Are Two Different Blasts From the Past

The Epic Games Store Free Games For April 18 Are Two Different Blasts From the Past

• Epic Games Store offers weekly free games, with rotation every Thursday at 10 AM CT, such as The Outer Worlds and Doki Doki Literature Club Plus.
• Fans may occasionally get lucky with two free games, like The Big Con and Town of Salem 2 on April 18, catering to different player preferences.
• Town of Salem 2 brings back the classic social deduction game format with improved features, while The Big Con offers a ’90s-themed adventure.

The Epic Games Store is still going strong with its weekly free game promotion. Ever since 2019, the Epic Games Store has given away one or two free titles each week, with rotation of what’s available occuring every Thursday at 10 AM CT. Out of everything given away, quite a lot of interesting options have been available on the Epic Games Store for 2024 from The Outer Worlds, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus, and a few incidental double deals between weeks.

While it’s rather normal to expect only one freebie on the storefront per week, sometimes players will get lucky and have two games to grab at no extra cost, but that shouldn’t be what fans expect every time they check out the free games on the Epic Games Store. It appears that the week of April 18 is one where gamers can indeed pick up two titles for the price of none, and depending on what they’re used to, they may end up reliving their childhood or just taking a trip down memory lane. With the ’90s escapades of The Big Con and the sequel to popular bowser game Town of Salem being given away for free, many fans will be thrown back into the past with ease.

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Epic Games Store Free Game Town of Salem 2 Explained

In late 2014, a free-to-play browser game would bring back a classic social deduction game format to the digital age. This would be Town of Salem, a free-to-play game inspired by the in-person Mafia and Werewolf games that would go on to embass quite a large player-base over the course of its lengthy years being active, with over seven million users playing Town of Salem in 2019. This number has likely only grown over the years, but it’s likely about to slow down with the fact that there’s an improved version of the title just as widely available.

Town of Salem 2 was released on July 26, 2023, and it aims to be everything the original game was but better, with improved dynamic animations, over 50 roles for characters to play, and even cosmetic items to bring more variety to the game’s customization that can either be free or purchased through microtransactions. For those who are wanting to rediscover the decietful world of Town of Salem, the sequel is being added to the Epic Games Store’s many regular free games with a limited time cosmetic pack being offered for those who snag it within its first week.

Town of Salem 2

Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, macOSReleasedMay 26, 2023Developer(s)BlankMediaGamesPublisher(s)BlankMediaGamesGenre(s)Party Game, RPG, casual, Strategy, Indie GamesEngineunityESRBE10+ For Everyone 10+ Due To Fantasy Violence, Mild BloodHow Long To BeatN/AMetascoreN/A See at SteamSee at Epic Games Store

Epic Games Store Free Game The Big Con Explained

Ali is a typical teenager living in the heyday of the ’90s who’s working at her mother Linda’s video rental store, which is at risk of going under due to Linda owing over $90,000 dollars to loan sharks. Rather than twiddling her thumbs and staying home playing some ’90s video games classics, Ali teams up with a con artist to steal their way to saving Linda’s buisness. Wearing disguises, employing stealth tactics, among other things, are only a fraction of the strategies players will have to use to cheat their way into making up the debt throughout The Big Con.

The Big Con

Platform(s)Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, PS5, PS4, PC, Xbox OneReleasedAugust 31, 2021Developer(s)Mighty YellPublisher(s)Skybound GamesGenre(s)AdventureESRBT For Teen Due To Drug Reference, Use of Tobacco, LanguageHow Long To Beat5 HoursMetascore77 See at Epic Games Store

On top of the coming-of-age story that will unfold as players steal the cash needed to save something important to the player character, The Big Con is a loving tribute to the ’90s that aims to capture what it was like living in a decade so different compared to the modern day. For those who lived during those times, the game should take them back to the good old days (provided they enjoyed their time in the ’90s in the first place,) and those that didn’t should be able to learn what it was like from such a colorful, cartoony recreation – to a degree, of course. If players aren’t interested in these two games, there are plenty of other free games to be found on the Epic Games Store, both right now, and in the future.

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