A Plague Tale Innocence is free for the taking on the Epic Games platform until the 12th of august(Thursday). It is a newer game with excellent graphics and it can be played through GeForce Now (GFN). It’s basically a stealth escort game, where you sneak through guiding your sibling by the hand and your only weapon is a sling.
The story is set in fantasy medieval France during the plague called “The Black Death ” and you play with a female character named Amisia. The intro of the game happens in a forest, and the nature is wonderfully done, later it becomes dark and has a horror atmosphere. The game has won multiple awards firstly because of the story.
The sling (that you upgrade in the game) has many functions, it can be used as a direct weapon by hitting with stones, or to make a noise if you strike metal or other objects to distract the attention of the enemies while you move forward.
Also if you get sulphur stones, you can light fires with the sling. The rats are the main enemy in the game except the soldiers of the inquisition that will attack you on sight. The rats avoid light, so you can use a light torch to repel them-of course there are lots of other mechanics. One of the more interesting ones is if the enemy soldiers carry a lantern as a source of light when there are rats around them, u can break the lantern with a stone from your sling and extinguish it and they get swarmed by rats that kill them. Also with alchemy the main character Amisia can make points of attraction for the rats to clear the way, or directly burn a group of rats in front of her.
There are lots of places where Amisia and her little brother Hugo solve different puzzles together. For example , Hugo can go through a hole in the wall to unlock a door from the other side or they operate mechanisms together.
The game is made for the Playstation 4 and it came out in 2019 so it’s a relatively new and high quality game which normally sells for about 40 euros but now you can take it for free.
