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As another Thursday comes and goes, theEpic Games Storeonce again changes what fans can get for free as a perk for using the platform. Serving as an important tradition that makes Epic’s digital storefront stand out, at least one game is offered for free until 10 AM CT the following Thursday. It serves as a great opportunity for players to pick up some interesting new experiences at no extra charge, be it something new or possibly a personal favorite, just by checking theEpic Games Storeregularly.

While this free games promotion has been going on for roughly six years, give or take, not all weeks are treated equally. While some weeks may be significant in that they offer not one free title, but two, theweek of May 2 on the Epic Games Storemarks a return to the service offering just a singular freebie. However, if players act fast, they have a chance to still grab the two games added to the store on April 25 -IndustriaandLisa: Definitive Edition- before May 2’sOrcs Must Die 3replaces them.

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Epic Games Store’s Free Games for April 25 Explained

IndustriaandLisa: Definitive Editionmay be completely different on the surface, but they deal with surreal, melancholy worlds that challenge everything the protagonist knew before. Industria stars Nora, a girl who uses a device called the ATLAS to chase after her coworker Walter to end up in a run-down world where the same device is threatening the world,whileLisa: Definitive Editiongives players an RPG experience starring an adoptive father and daughter duo aiming to survive the unforgiving world of Olathe.

Lisa: Definitive Editionmay be listed as one game, but it’s actually a bundle featuringLisa: The Painfuland its sequelLisa: The Joyful, meaning that if players act fast, they can technically get four games between April 25 and May 2.

Epic Games Store Free Game Orcs Must Die 3 Explained

As the third game in theOrcs Must Dieseries that started in 2011,Orcs Must Die 3is a colorful and cartoonytower defense gamewhere the player’s goal is exactly as the title says. Using weapons, upgrades, and all manner of traps, fans will need to slice, throw, and mutilate ahorde of different unique enemiesin numerous ways to survive the game’s levels that won’t get exhausted when players finish the story. If players wish to simply pass the time with the main campaign, that will still take some time, as it has a 16 hour playthrough length on its own.

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Orcs Must Die! 3 ushers orc-slaying mayhem to a previously unimaginable scale. Solo, or 2 player co-op, arm yourself with a massive arsenal of traps and weapons. Slice, burn, toss and zap hordes of repugnant orcs in this long-awaited successor to the award-winning series.New to the series, War Scenarios pit players against the largest orc armies ever assembled. Mountable War Machines give players the essential firepower to heave, stab, carbonize, and disarticulate the abominable intruders.Orcs Must Die! 3 is everything fans loved about the first two games and more. More orcs, more traps, more weapons, more upgrades and even better looking. It’s cranked up to at least eleven.Play through a brand new story set more than 20 years after Orcs Must Die! 2, where the War Mage and Sorceress have rebuilt the order and trained new young apprentices.All new War Scenarios deliver on the promise of massive scale first set out in Orcs Must Die! Confront overwhelming armies of orcs outside on the battlefields surrounding the castles. Thin out waves of orcs hundreds strong before they breach the walls and crash your rift.

What the Epic Games Store Free Games Line Up Until May 9 Offer Players

Until May 9 seesOrcs Must Die 3get rotated out, the current line up of free games on the Epic Games Store could easily be called “all over the place.“Lisa: Definitive Editiondubs itself a “life-ruining” experience,Industriafeatures a short story that promises to be profound to its players, andOrcs Must Die 3rounds up the pack with an art style similar toCrash Bandicootwith fantastical and fun violence. This is one of the things thatmakes the Epic Games Store free games promotion so funin that fans are left guessing about what’s next.

Outside the occasional leak, gamers have no idea what Epic Games has lined up for its free game page, which leads to times when the titles listed are completely different from one another, or coincidences where two games serve as a weekly treat for those who come back to the storefront for more. This makes it so all kinds ofEpic Games Store userscan find something that interests them for free with ease, thanks to the variety offered.