FREE GAME: Marvel’s Midnight Suns

Thursdays may not spark the same excitement for me as
first-Tuesdays-of-the-month but it's hard not to feel joyful at an
opportunity to add yet-another game to the library. So, fill us with
joyfulness, Epic Games! Tell us what freebie we get today!

This week's consumerist pleasure is:

* Marvel’s Midnight Suns
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/marvels-midnight-suns
   Conceptually, Marvel Comics meets X-COM, except without
   the solid gameplay and a lot more monetizations. It's
   not a terrible game but the randomization and RNG make
   it a lot less fun than it could be, and it lacks the
   earth-shattering combats you'd expect from watching
   superhumans pummel one another (it's all very flashy, but
   in the end your guys don't have much more effect on the
   world than do XCOM troops, which feels very limited
   and un-comicbooky.  And, yeah, there's a lot of MTX. If
   you just want some brief spectacle and bombast, it's fine,
   but this isn't a game you want to spend a lot of time
   with. Shame; it really looks like it could have been
   a contender if more effort had been put into making it
   a game and not a profit center.


Seven days, as usual. Also: Ha, Epic! You keep trying to make next
week's game a mystery, but Internet sleuths always out you ahead of
time! I wrote this post 24 hours early!