Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. Why yes, I am enjoying rewatching The Thick of It, how can you tell? If you thought I was disinterested in Aven Colony, I find free-to-play games about as entertaining as a clown running across a minefield. In all seriousness, all we’re being shown right now ahead of time is a promo for Rogue Company with its season four Epic pack. As for next week, it is a dour prospect, but that’s enough about Doctor Who: Flux. Reminder, if you are in the UK, hug pets because tonight people will be celebrating terrorism by scaring animals with fireworks. It is nice, but without thrills.Īll this week, you can pick up Aven Colony on the Epic Games Store until the morning of the 11th of November.

If it seems like I’m avoiding talking about Aven Colony, that’s because it is going down the line of fantasy sci-fi of your typical aliens enhabiting a green M-Class kind of planet. Of course, a little while later down the line, we saw Haemimont Games’ Surviving Mars, which is a little more like space- Tropico. None of which is to say that Mothership Entertainment’s Aven Colony is not worth playing, but it might be a little more focused on hardcore fans of the concept. So yes, there was at least some competition, but I was too busy enjoying a small indie game called Kingdoms and Castles. Then again, I think we were all mugged by this year’s Black Widow. It probably didn’t help that three games made more headlines with Northgard, Black’Hood, and Empires of Undergrowth, the latter based entirely on an ant colony being mugged to death by the local black widow. Looking at the reviews, it never impressed people beyond adding a droplet to the ocean of Steam’s many releases. Of course, there may be a reason for not hearing much about it. Aven Colony was released back in 2017 on Steam after a short run in early access with a beta released on Itch.io. On to this week’s free game on the Epic Games Store, a colony/city-builder with sci-fi elements that I never knew about until last week. Thursday, Midnight Suns was delayed weeks after being announced, and Among Trees finally got a release date. Wednesday, dog-based business-sim To The Rescue is now on Steam, and Skyrim is becoming a board game after the success of the (quite enjoyable) Fallout board game.

Driller DrillLand is coming to modern consoles for the first time in the west. Monday, Prime Gaming was half decent again this month and for a few more days Humble has a casual-friendly fighting bundle, while Darkest Dungeon II sold 100K copies in a day.

Empires of the undergrowth review