Welcome to the inaugural Epic Games: Game Gone Free Weekly column where I, your cloud gaming version of Uncle Fester, will dissect, analyze, and deliver pretentious, albeit hubristic, quasi-intellectual quips about the weekly Epic Games: Game Gone Free release(s).
I’ll also be your personal information person thingy (I don’t know how I’ve made it this far in life…) and inform you whether the game is available on cloud gaming platforms like GeForce Now, Xbox Cloud, Amazon Luna+, Boosteroid, Shadow, and/or AirGPU.
My goal in life is to amass a digital library that would make the Library of Alexandria look like a secondhand bookstore built on a snow dune in northern Minnesota. Or a sand dune in San Francisco.
I don’t know, hot or cold, pick your poison.
What’s Free This Week?
The Spirit and The Mouse
(Available for free until 3rd of October 2024)
Where Can I Play?
As of the time of writing, The Spirit and The Mouse is only available on:
- Shadow
- AirGPU
What’s It All About, Alfie?
After a shocking thunderstorm brings them together, unlikely allies Lila the mouse and Lumion the Spirit guardian must work in tandem to restore balance to their quaint village. Thankfully, Lila has her big heart and electrifying new powers to aid her on this journey. Guide her through a heartwarming adventure across Sainte-et-Claire to befriend playful electric spirits called Kibblins and illuminate this village once more.
The Spirit and the Mouse is a kind-hearted adventure game that has you searching every nook and cranny of this world to complete objectives and collect items to aid you in your humble quest to assist those in need. Listen to the villagers’ woes, then find the Kibblins who are running amok in order to fix the village’s newfound electricity problems. By doing good and working together with these lively spirits, Lila can then put Lumion back in the sky where he belongs!
Explore the charming French village of Sainte-et-Claire and discover its secrets at your own pace from the perspective of a tiny mouse!
Use electricity-based powers to traverse the world around you, solve character-driven puzzles, and bring the villagers’ stories to life.
Help the troubled local villagers by going on quests and placating the mischievous Kibblins through charming mini-games.
Collect energy and happiness to unlock new abilities throughout the course of your adventure.
Free, Gratis, Kostenlos, Gratuït
You might wonder why I, a supposedly functioning adult, care so much about accumulating free games. Well, it’s simple: I’ve convinced myself that having a vast library of unplayed games is a personality trait. It’s either this or develop a real hobby, and we both know that’s not happening anytime soon.
At least I am attempting to contribute something to society, right? Right.
Epic, But
“Why,” you ask, your concern for my priorities evident, “do you analyze Epic’s free game strategy week after week?” Well, it’s simple: in the fast-paced world of cloud gaming, someone needs to be consistently distracted by shiny free things, and I’ve appointed myself as tribute.
Plus, writing about free games gives me a sense of purpose. It’s either this or finally learn how to cook something other than microwave ramen.
Final Thoughts
As I wrap up another week in my ongoing saga of “Justifying My Epic Game Collection,” I’m left with the usual questions. Will I ever actually play this game? Will cloud gaming technology advance faster than my backlog grows? And most importantly, will I ever grow out of this phase, or am I doomed to be the digital equivalent of a cat lady, but with games instead of cats?
Though the paradox makes my head spin, because I have like 100 cats.
Only time (and my ever-increasing neuroticism) will tell. But one thing’s certain – next week I’ll be back here, adding another game to my virtual trophy case, all in the name of being a “cultured” gamer.
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