
Crossing my fingers that they’re right, though any Portal anything might feel off without Wolpaw’s writing Hearing rumors from a gamedev friend about some Portal *thing* being revealed at the game awards Thursday. We usually see one or two high-profile reveals, and there’s been a suggestion that one of those games would finally be a third game in a Valve franchise We recently examined how these promotions paid different developers.For a while now, there have been rumours that there would be a new Portal game announced at the upcoming Game Awards. The Spectrum Retreat is currently available to download for free now.Įpic Games has made at least one game free from its store page every week since 2019 and has had a big range of titles including Grand Theft Auto 5, Sonic Mania, and Alan Wake Remastered. It's another puzzle game, and has you exploring a hotel and figuring out several colour-coded puzzles. The official Steam page describes it as "Puzzlequest meets FTL in this Steampunk Victorian era roguelite".Īlthough you'll have to wait a week for those titles to become free, The Spectrum Retreat is also currently available on the store for free. While the gameplay seems to be a pretty straightforward puzzler, Ironcast has a good deal of replayability thanks to its procedurally generated boards and a permanent death system. Its core gameplay features a familiar-looking match-three system, although it's all wrapped up in a Victorian theme.

Ironcast is the second free game available next week and it's another puzzle title. Related: The Walking Dead Survivors Ad Blatantly Copies Resident Evil Artwork, And It's Hilarious Beyond accounting for zombies, there's also combat that features iconic characters, which adds another layer to the standard gameplay mechanics. The big difference with The Walking Dead version of Bridge Constructor is that zombies are scattered throughout each map that need to be considered alongside the bridge-building.
