Epic Games Store's Next Free Game Is Rogue Legacy

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Epic is currently giving away City of Brass and Total War: Warhammer on the Epic Games Store until April 6, but starting April 7, players will be able to download two highly-rated titles Rogue Legacy and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.

Along with The Binding of Isaac and Faster Than Light, Rogue Legacy is one of the many rogue-lites credited with popularizing the genre in the early 2010s. The game puts players in control of a randomly-named hero as they quest to defeat a boss at the end of a randomly-generated dungeon. Each hero also comes with a unique trait that is both random and somewhat humorous. For example, a color-blind hero will play the game in black and white, while a dyslexic hero will have trouble reading since all the words will be mixed up. A hero suffering from baldness will have neither hair on their head nor horns on their helmet, while a gay hero doesn’t have anything changing their overall gameplay because being homosexual is entirely unrelated to being a hero.

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After each run, the hero’s heir will take up some of the former hero’s gear and also starts with a random trait. The player can also use all accumulated gold to upgrade their castle so that the new hero starts with a bit of a leg up over their forebears.

Rogue Legacy first arrived on PC in 2013 where it made back its $15,000 development costs in just a single hour. After one week, the game sold 100,000 copies and made Toronto-based developer Cellar Door Games an indie success story. The two-person indie studio is now working on Rogue Legacy 2, which is currently in early access.

The other game Epic is giving away is The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter from developer The Astronauts. A former pack of