Beetlebug 2

In Brief

Beetlebug 2 is a maze like game where you have to find the exit to progress to the next level. To do this you have to destroy various walls to access blocked area's and kill any enemies that block your way. Many of you older gamers will recognize the game as a classic bomberman style arcade game.

You can see several videos of game play HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.

Introduction

Beetle Bug 2 is a story of our lion-hearted beetle's reappearance! Just like in the previous version of the game given away last week . Beetlebug is involved in a great number of adventures, heroic deeds and cleaning missions. It cleans the territory and makes the environment better without all those filthy aggressive monsters that bring chaos and pollution.

Explore the underground area with a limited number of grenades and collect gold and additional bonus items. The tasks for each level are given at the beginning of each level. So you'll know how many monsters are waiting for you. In order to overcome all the difficulties Beetlebug has learnt to fly and dig into the soil. It can move and slide stones and kill the enemies even without his poisonous and powerful weapons. So you only need to help the brave tiny insect to choose the right route and think how to eliminate enemies in the best way.

Beetle Bug 2 is an improved version of the first beetle bug game with more obstacles, improved controls and the tasks are funnier, the underground insects world is more colorful.

Introduction originally from MyPlayCity, but has been heavily edited and added too by Whiterabbit 18th April 2021.

The Game

When starting the game you'll see a pack selection screen where you can choose from four different packs. The original normal difficulty pack with 101 levels, two more special packs with 10 and 50 levels respectively and a fourth hard pack with 92 levels. when you select any pack you can then choose to start with any level from that pack and choose from three difficulty levels easy, normal and hard, which makes playing the hard levels even harder if you choose to play them on the hardest difficulty.

From the main menu you can select the option menu which enables you to change the volume of both the sound effects and music separately as well as clear previous recorded scores and toggle between full and windowed mode; for example, eliminate particular monsters that are presented as images of the monsters to be eliminated. While exploring each level you'll see information panels that give you important tips for example blue monsters only turn left or dig soil to move forwards, up or down. The top left hand corner of the screen shows the points you have earned so far, the amount of gold you've collected, the top right shows the number of monsters still left in the level and the bottom left shows the number of grenades you have collected from small bugs that look like orange into ladybirds but with spikes instead of spots.

Each level introduces you to the task ahead, with the number of monsters you will need to kill or avoid. Enter each level, clear it of monsters to enter the next level. You control Beetlebug using the up down left and right arrow keys. Eliminate enemies by dropping bombs and rocks on top of them. Some bugs will give you grenades which can also be used to destroy enemies. Score points by collecting treasure and small beetles. Each of the difficulty levels has a separate score board, but different level packs are combined. Move through each level clearing soil, drop rocks and bombs onto enemies and collect treasure. Avoid falling rocks as they can remove some of your health as can contact with any enemy. Once your health is reduced to zero you have to start the level from the beginning. Once you've eliminated all of the enemies detailed in the introduction to each level you can proceed to the next level.

The latest free games from Epic Games include three game this week; i.e. Deponia: The Complete Journey, Ken Follet's The Pillars of the Earth and The First Tree, all of which you'll find HERE.
Please see Delenn's threads for other Steam and Non Steam freebies HERE and HERE respectively. There won't be new freebies every week from these sections apart from the Epic games, but it is worth keeping your eyes open regularly for details. Delenn usually posts details when a game is being offered free for a temporary period. These include games from Good Old Games, Ubisoft's uPlay client, Valves Steam client, EA Games Origin client and other indie developers. You'll find hundreds of freeware games of all arcade and indie genres on Itch.io and Caimans Games as well as other sources. 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 stopped giving games away around Easter 2008 (due to the financial crisis) until November 2019 when Falcoware stepped into the weekday slot, with the occasional limited free AAA and decent indie arcade games game from Steam starting back in 2017; (e.g. Warhammer Vermintide 1 & 2 plus DLC for version 2, Dreadlands, DLC for World of Tanks and Warships, The Last Roman Village, ADM: Angels, Demons & Men, ADM 2: When Worlds Collide, U-BOOT 1945, Mount & Blade: Warband, Immortal Unchained, Onion Force, 1993: Space Machine, Runaway VR, Jump Step Step, Megamagic: Wizards of the Neon Age, Tree of Life, Star Vikings Forever, Rogalia, Alien Hallway 2, Cargo Cult: Shoot'n'Loot VR, Bold New World, several Forge of Gods dlc packs e.g. Team of Justice Pack, The Apotheosis Project, TangramsVR, Mighty Party dlc, UnnyWorld - Founder's Pack, SteamWorld Dig, Minion Masters, Dreamals: Dream Quest, Destroyer: Invasion, MIND SHIFT, Madrobot X, MIND BLOX, MIND TWINS - The Twisted Co-op Platformer, Next Up Hero, Runaway VR, ZBlitz with 1000 Gems, Conan Exiles as well as others).

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 lot 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. :)