Active Mummy

In Brief
Active Mummy is a simple platformer with retro graphics. Collect all the crystals to open the portal to the next level. fall into the abyss and get 'mission failed. Use the W for jumping and the A & D for moving left or right, or alternatively use the left and right arrow keys to move left or right and the up arrow for jumping. You can use walls to run up and bars ceiling bars to traverse high area's. The first few levels are relatively easy once you've gauged the mechanics of the game. Later traps such as spikes and mines are introduced to make levels just that little bit harder. The character looks more like a space suited figure than a mummy.

The HUD includes a counter on the top left of the screen (when in full screen mode) for the number of times you had to start the game again (I won't say died as mummies are already dead) and the level number is located on the top right of the screen. Progress is saved when you close the game down unless you select to play a new game. Selecting a new game resets all counters.

You can see a video of game play HERE

Notes on Security
I scanned a zipped copy of the installed game and it received hits from 4 antimalware engines. i.e. 3 hits (Cyclance, Jiangmin & Kaspersky) from 60 antimalware engines. (The first time I've seen three hits). However when removing the 20M text document (which has no effect on the game working) and re submitting the zipped installed game I received 4 warnings with an extra one coming from ZoneAlarm by Checkpoint. You can see the results of the scan via the following link:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/727d59b06e676c4e4fae1febd05d56279ff3e763a42a59440ddeabca97bdb749/detection

However, this does not mean the game is infected with malware. With only 6.7% of the antimalware suites giving it a positive, the result is not statistically significant and is most likely a false positive.

The only suites of note from those four antimalware suites, i.e. Kaspersky and Zone Alarm are known for giving false positives; so, personally I would ignore the results; that said, if you are still not happy, or do not want to risk installing the game, then that's your prerogative. Please bear in mind that the game giveawayoftheday team have been giving games away regularly since 2006 (around 2000 games) and have never given away a game infected with malware. They also check all downloads that are to be downloaded from their servers before allowing them to be downloaded by the community, using several well known anti malware suites.

Falcoware would not allow any game to be downloaded if it was known to be infected with malware. If they did it could give them a negative reputation on all the game forums where free games are advertised, which could then seriously affect their income.

Other free games worth adding to your game library
The latest free games from Epic Games include three game this week; i.e. Deponia: The Complete Journey, a comedic point and click adventure game. Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth, a point and click visual novel with a medieval anime feel to it, and The First Tree, a atmospheric walking simulator., all of which you'll find HERE; the combined cost of these three games would set you back over £60/$84/€70. From tomorrow afternoon (4pm UK time - 22nd April) we will be getting two more games; the excellent Alien: Isolation, A first person psychological/survival horror game based on the Alien movie franchise and set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger & Hand of Fate 2, is an RPG roguelike deck builder card game; Master a living board game of infinitely re-playable quests - unlock new cards, build your adventure, then defeat your foes in brutal third person real-time combat! (combined cost of both games is over £50/$70/€58).

Please see Delenn's threads for other Steam and Non Steam freebies HERE and HERE respectively. There won't be new freebies added every week from these sections apart from the Epic games, but it is worth checking them regularly for details of any games going for free. Delenn usually posts details when a game is being offered free for a temporary period. These include games from Good Old Games (all DRM free), Ubisoft's uPlay client, Valves Steam client, EA Games Origin client and other indie developers. In fact Delenn has just posted details of a free Steam game (available free until later today i.e. 7pm UK time 2pm EST) called Utopos, a multiplayer online spaceship arena fighting game with a single player element. It's in early access at the moment and usually costs £7.19/$9.99.

You'll find hundreds of freeware games of all arcade and indie genres on Itch.io and Caimans Games as well as other sources. Please do check out the game discussion forums for older posts HERE (the sticky section is useful). Many of the earlier posts may be out of date with respect to the links I and others have provided to the free games; however, you only need to know the name of the game to find most of them via other sources. Many of those games from 2008 to around 2017 were posted as part of a project to supplement the lack of weekday games when the game giveaway went to weekend only games around Easter 2008 (mainly instigated due to the financial crisis of 2008) until November 2018 when Falcoware stepped into the weekday slot; however, from around 2015 onwards we did start to get the occasional Steam key for various games offered as limited giveaways, with a restriction on the number of keys available (anywhere from 25 to 2000+). These included over 60 decent AAA games and indie arcade games ; for example some of the better AAA games included , lucky Warhammer: Vermintide 1 & 2 plus DLC for version 2; Dreadlands, Mount & Blade: Warband, Immortal Unchained and Conan Exiles.

I've not posted details of any Indie Gala freebies since my older computer went on the Fritz back in October last year. Since then Indie Gala have added quite a few more free games, some of which are definitely worth downloading. You can find the latest freebies HERE and their showcase list, which includes all the freebies still current; (many of which have been included for a couple of years now) HERE.

It’s worth adding these links to your favorites and checking regularly for available freebies. Most are only free for a specific time. If you miss the deadline you’ll miss out. Once added to your account, they are yours to keep. :)