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It's Epic-Freebie-Thursday again. The games might not be that good,
but at least we get two of them!

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* The Ouroboros King
https://store.epicgames.com/p/the-ouroboros-king-e1d547
"What if we turned chess into a rogue-like?" asked nobody.
People have been trying to improve upon chess for centuries
and usually fail at it. This game's concepts may or may not
be worthy, but the implementation is reportedly quite poor.
Just stick with the original.


* Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freaks https://store.epicgames.com/p/warhammer-40k-speed-freeks-12879c
It's Warhammer 40K with cars. Take on the roll of the Orks
and drive Mad Max-esque vehicles in a rather uninspired
death-race. Not bad... but it doesn't stand out either.
Although maybe I only feel that way because I'm so burned
out on Warhammer anyway; it's a one-note franchise that
desperately needs refreshing.

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Add them to your library! You don't need to play them, but you need to
add them. Quick, The Number is getting hungry! You won't like The
Number when she is hungry! ;-)

See you next week for more!


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On 6/11/2026 8:16 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

It's Epic-Freebie-Thursday again. The games might not be that good,
but at least we get two of them!

* Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freaks https://store.epicgames.com/p/warhammer-40k-speed-freeks-12879c
It's Warhammer 40K with cars. Take on the roll of the Orks
and drive Mad Max-esque vehicles in a rather uninspired
death-race. Not bad... but it doesn't stand out either.
Although maybe I only feel that way because I'm so burned
out on Warhammer anyway; it's a one-note franchise that
desperately needs refreshing.

Hey it's free. It's not something I would've bought on my own for any
money, but I'll give it a try.
--
-Justisaur

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On Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:57:23 -0700, Justisaur <[email protected]>
said this thing:

On 6/11/2026 8:16 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

It's Epic-Freebie-Thursday again. The games might not be that good,
but at least we get two of them!
* Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freaks
https://store.epicgames.com/p/warhammer-40k-speed-freeks-12879c
It's Warhammer 40K with cars. Take on the roll of the Orks
and drive Mad Max-esque vehicles in a rather uninspired
death-race. Not bad... but it doesn't stand out either.
Although maybe I only feel that way because I'm so burned
out on Warhammer anyway; it's a one-note franchise that
desperately needs refreshing.

Hey it's free. It's not something I would've bought on my own for any >money, but I'll give it a try.

Yes. Yesssss! <rubs hands evilly> Take the free games. Add them to
your library. You are well on the path to Numerology. Join our wicked
cult and bask in overly large, unmanagable video-game libraries! It is
the only way!


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On 6/11/2026 10:43 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:57:23 -0700, Justisaur <[email protected]>
said this thing:

On 6/11/2026 8:16 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

It's Epic-Freebie-Thursday again. The games might not be that good,
but at least we get two of them!
* Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freaks
https://store.epicgames.com/p/warhammer-40k-speed-freeks-12879c
It's Warhammer 40K with cars. Take on the roll of the Orks
and drive Mad Max-esque vehicles in a rather uninspired
death-race. Not bad... but it doesn't stand out either.
Although maybe I only feel that way because I'm so burned
out on Warhammer anyway; it's a one-note franchise that
desperately needs refreshing.

Hey it's free. It's not something I would've bought on my own for any
money, but I'll give it a try.

Yes. Yesssss! <rubs hands evilly> Take the free games. Add them to
your library. You are well on the path to Numerology. Join our wicked
cult and bask in overly large, unmanagable video-game libraries! It is
the only way!

Well, I gave it a little try before DS3 RtL started. About 3 hours.
It's fun, you 'race' but with weapons and can gain as much or more
points to win by destroying other cars as winning the race. Overall it
felt like a much more limited mario cart. It's essentially online
multiplayer, yes you can play a solo game against bots, which was the
only way I could play. I tried to join an ongoing game, but there were
so few, only two in my region, and it just sat there for like 10 minutes waiting to join, until I gave up and had to kill the game to start over.
The game is very limited too, sure there's like 8 maps, and another
mode where you try to bomb an opposing giant slow moving vehicle to slow
it down, and you win the race by getting your teams, giant vehicle to
the end. But I saw most of the game in that time other than all the
upgrades.

I'll probably go back to it after DS3 RtL, but only for a short period.
--
-Justisaur

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