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Grab a free copy of splendid sci-fi horror game Duskers from EpicYou have one week to claim Duskers for keepsies

You have one week to claim Duskers for keepsies

Exploring a spaceship through the command line interface in a Duskers screenshot.

You Should Be Playing… Duskers | Hidden Gems On PCNoa explained in 2018 why you should be playing Duskers, and now you can for freeWatch on YouTube

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It is very good, and quite horrible, to only see the horrors through a computer interface.

“It’s one thing to make a game look like this, hooking into everyone’s current lust for ‘retro-futurism’ or whatever it is we’re calling nostalgia now, but it’s another thing for the feel, atmosphere and mechanics of your game to perfectly match that style,” Brendy said in ourDuskers review. “This is something Duskers does unnaturally well. It is a claustrophobic, tense recreation of all the sci-fi horror you love. It’s a game of desperately trying to come up with solutions with almost no resources. Imagine someone has handed you a toolbox and told you to build a fridge, then you open said toolbox only to find some sellotape, a pair of nail clippers and a single permanent marker. How the fuck are you going to make a fridge out of that? You have no idea, but damned if you won’t come up with something. It’s a tense, worrisome survival horror aboutmaking do.”

You have until 4pm on Thursday the 2nd of March tograb Duskers free from the Epic Games Store. After that, thenext Epic freebiewill be tycoon game Rise Of Industry.

If you have already played Duskers, do check outThe Mechanic’s chat with its makerabout the important decision to use a command-line interface. We declared itone of our favourite games of 2016too.