It was one of our favourite games of 2020. It's ambitious, audacious, personal, and unique in a way big budget games so rarely are. It also, naturally, has a batshit supernatural science fiction story, with incomprehensible too-long cutscenes and entirely comprehensible horniness for Mads Mikkelsen. It's almost literally a 'walking sim', in that you must consider your footing on uneven terrain, the balance of the packages on your back, and use social construction tools to gradually colonise and construct roads, bridges and other shortcuts on the routes you'll take across terrain. It's a beautiful open world game in which you play Sam Bridges, who must deliver packages across a post-apocalyptic United States.

Freebies are regular on the Epic Games Store anyway, but they're often of a better calibre during sale events.ĭeath Stranding is certainly of a high calibre.

On that date, it'll be replaced by a different freebie - and one game will be offered for free for a week each Thursday for the duration of the now underway Epic Mega Sale.

As long as you do it before 4pm BST on May 25th, it's yours forever. You can head to its Epic Games Store page to add it to your account now.

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