12/27/2022 at 10:15 a.m. by Jusuf Hatic – The next free game at Epic Games is coming up: With FIST: Forged in Shadow Torch, those interested will receive a Metroidvania offshoot in Dieselpunk style.
New day, new free game at Epic Games: On December 27th, the gaming platform is again offering a new free game until 5 p.m. With FIST: Forged in Shadow Torch, the player lands in Torch City – a city where only animals lived peacefully until an attack by the Machine Legion converted them into a colony. The protagonist, meanwhile, gets caught between the fronts again as a former part of the resistance war and fights his way through the world with the help of his mechanical fist, while he has to fight his way through the intrigues and secret plans of the legion, rebellion and also the city’s own mafia.
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Gameplay-wise, FIST: Forged in Shadow Torch takes its cues from Metroidvania platformers like Hollow Knight, allowing the player to battle through twisting levels with three unique weapons – a mechanical fist, a drill and a whip. Each of the weapons has its own advantages and disadvantages, adding further tactical depth to each fight. As is typical of the genre, the core of the game revolves around puzzles and clever platforming stages to unlock the next area.
In keeping with its role models, FIST: Forged in Shadow Torch is a 2D side-scroller, but it goes its own way in terms of the design of its world and characters: The game world realized in Unreal Engine 4 offers a colorful mixture of diesel-punk aesthetics, animal heroes and antagonistic robots – among other things, this curious but also lovingly implemented game design leads to a metascore of 81 points, which raises FIST: Forged in Shadow Torch to an insider tip among Metroidvania games.
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Quelle: Epic Games
