Bugsnax studio releases four 'smaller side projects' on Steam and they're all free
If you're in the mood for some free games, Young Horses has them: The developer of Octodad(opens in new tab) and Bugsnax(opens in new tab) has released a series of four «smaller side projects» on Steam, and it's giving them all away for nothing.
Naturally, the games in the Young Horses: Free Range collection aren't the biggest-budget or most highly-polished games of all time. But you also don't have to pay for them, and let's be honest, that goes a long way. As Young Horses said, «It's free, so there's only so disappointed you can be!»
With expectations appropriately managed, the little mini-games look potentially fun, or at least cute and silly enough to be briefly entertaining. They also make for an interesting look back at the indie studio's history, extending back to the days before it even existed.
Here's the rundown:
The ant colony you live in got knocked off the shelf and smashed open on the floor. Now the Queen is missing, and the ants are starving. Your mission: Scour the living room and find food!
«This game is a tech demo we made to help us get used to the Unreal 5 engine. It turned out well enough that we thought fans might enjoy playing it (but not so well that you might enjoy paying for it...)»
You are the Antbassador, a giant human finger with a top hat, who must enter a busy ant colony to make peace with the Queen. There's just one problem: You're huge and cloddish, and liable to squish your hosts. Too much of that and you'll cause an international incident!
«Back in 2014 while freshly finished with Dadliest Catch, a portion of the Young Horses team decided to participate in the Ludum Dare game jam #30. The theme for the jam was 'Connected Worlds', which we interpreted fairly loosely. Over the course
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