Epic Games Store's Next Free Games for April 2022 Show New Isn't Always Better

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There’s an unspoken rule among many subscription services that newer is better. After all, Xbox Game Pass includes day one games, and that’s a BIG boost to the popularity of the service. That shouldn’t always be the case, though. As April 7’s free game selection from Epic Games Store shows, it’s not about the age of the game but how they’ve aged.

Epic Games Store users can claim City of Brass and Total War: Warhammer between now and April 7. They will then be replaced by Rogue Legacy and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, which will be available from April 7 until April 14. Rogue Legacy released in 2013, and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter released in 2014. Despite these games being roughly 9 and 8 years old, respectively, they are great additions to the service that anyone should pick up.

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Obviously, this is not to say that older games never appear on services like PS Plus, Games with Gold, Epic Games Store, and so on—but that there is a disproportionate reaction, generally speaking, when it’s an older title vs. something new. No doubt, had the Epic Games Store added some game like Tiny Tina's Wonderlands as a crude example, fans would be in an uproar. It’s relatively quiet for these two games, but it shouldn’t be.

Rogue Legacy received killer reviews at launch, currently sitting at an 84 top critic average and with 95% of critics recommending it on OpenCritic. Rogue Legacy is a platforming roguelike, which was already popular before bigger roguelike games likeHades, Returnal, Deathloop, and so on came along. In it, players must explore randomly procedurally dungeons, defeating four bosses and a final boss in said dungeon. So, it becomes more of a