Story of Fairy Place

Wow!, this was given away way back in August 25, 2007! HERE. It's a butterfly matching game, where you earn man, which when full enables you to repair the fairy's home.

I recognised it immediately as I really enjoyed playing it back then. I think I missed the actual giveaway as we would have been away on vacation towards the end of August, but I did buy the game later. It received a positive 86% from 723 votes and received 168 comments. This is back when we got quality games totally free from adverts etc every day and before the financial crisis of 2008 when arcade game prices dropped through the roof from an average of $19.99 to around £6 or less and is when the giveaways moved to weekends only. There were few free game sites back then and the games they hosted were often freeware already or very limited in choice. This site was extremely popular back then, as evidenced by the number of comments and votes cast. A sequel was given away later that year called .

As I mentioned yesterday, I'm really busy this weekend, so probably won't post a review I have added a few images from the first few levels and includes the story.

Don't forget to check out the giveaway forums. Delenn has posted the latest freebies, some via Steam, some via GOG ( War Wind and Hitman Absolution. You can find other free games via GOG HERE) and of course Epic Games weekly giveaway; this weeks Epic Game giveaway is the excellent survival game Ark Survival Evolved (usually costing £44.99/$49.99/€54.99 over on Steam) plus five DLC's for the game. Just pop over to the game discussion threads HERE and HERE for links to most of those games.

There's also a couple of new additions to the Indie Gala developers freebies HERE and HERE (Snow White Solitaire Charmed Kingdom and Spirit of Xanadu) and there's a free Steam key available over on the Humble Store for a 3D platformer game called Snake Pass HERE ; (usually costing £15.99/$19.99/€19.99).

Finally, Delenn posted details of an amazing deal earlier this week; it's a bundle containing 1,659 items called The Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality. The bundle is available via Itch.io and is estimated to be worth over $8000+ (yes, that's eight thousand plus dollars) if you purchased each project individually. (The bundle ends at 7am Tuesday UK time) The developers of these games have donated their games towards this bundle and you can get it for $5 or more (if you wish to donate more to the charity) HERE; since the bundle went live, they have already received over six million dollars and exceeded the original goal of five million. Seriously, there are some fantastic games in that bundle. Celeste alone costs $19.99, so just one game in that bundle would still be saving you 75% if you were only getting one game, but you are getting over sixteen hundred games and that number is rising daily. Not all the games are in the league of Celeste and others (e.g. Oxenfree, Overland, Art Sqool, Wide Ocean Big Jacket, Hexagon, A Short Hike, A Mortician’s Tale, Quadrilateral Cowboy, Gunhouse, The King’s Bird, Minit, A Night in the Woods and Fortune-499), and some may not even be classed as games, for example one of the first items I cam across once I'd paid my donation was a pack of 20 000+ game assets to be used with a game engine called Construct. Also, all are free standing, requiring no activation keys. You do require a free itch.io account to get the bundle. If you've never heard of itch-io before, they host up and coming indie developers. Even if you don't contribute to the charity, you'll find many games, especially beta versions free of charge, though developers do ask for a voluntary contribution towards development of more games.