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Most of the free and discounted game deals I mention in the last paragraph below end today or soon; for example, Ionball 2: Ionstorm and Welcome to Princeland both end later today, and many of the games on sale via Steam end today, though new titles will be added to their weekly sales.

Expelled

In Brief

A retro platform game about a jailed rabbit.

Installation Issues:

Expelled downloads to a 57 MB zip file that unzips to two files, (a setup executable and a read me). The game installs to the following path by default, but can be changed if you wish. The installed game is approximately 130 MB in size.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Expelled

Five shortcuts are installed to the desktop, four of which can be safely deleted . If you want the games shortcut to be installed to the desktop, make sure the appropriate checkbox is checked. Even if this is left unchecked you will still get the four internet shortcuts installed to the desktop; (i.e. Falco Space - Online Game!, FalconLine Online Games Website, FalcoGo WebGL Games! and Free Games Downloads!). Also, if you don't like icons installed to the quick launch task bar, make sure the appropriate checkbox is unchecked when the 'additional task's window appears (after the Select Start Menu Folder window).

Introduction:

Expelled - the adventure of a rabbit on dangerous planets, and all in order to use the only chance to get out of prison and return home to his wife and children. Will the rabbit solve all the problems and do not die with a single chance? Only by playing the game you will learn this. How did he get in prison? The story will unfold by playing this game. In game the Space Prison will sent rabbit on the various planets to destroy dangerous monsters. Planet after planet and so on. But what's hides behind wiping out population of all planets? Warden Hog gave rabbit a promise to free him after all missions, but will he keep his promise? Or he will just use him in his goal?

Reference accessed HERE. 25th February 2019

The Game:

There's some effort here but it just looks like something that should be free on a website, a test game, ludum dare?.. The graphics (apart for the main character where it looks like more effort has been put) resemble early 80s games, some tiles don't blend well, there's minimum animation, level design varies from boring to confusing, very basic sounds and one music loop that gets really annoying after a while and you cannot even mute it. There are very limited options and you cannot even switch to window-mode (although it starts in window and straight up goes to fullscreen). The production values of this game are much lower than the price would suggest so it's a roman thumbie downwards for me.

Reference accessed HERE. Originally posted bymorlan , Edited and reposted by Whiterabbit-uk 25th February2019

Controls:

⦁ A = Move Left
⦁ D = Move right
⦁ K = Jump
⦁ E or Enter = Action
⦁ Esc = Pause or return to game
⦁ R = Restart
⦁ Q = exit to main menu
⦁ Controller option available

Conclusion:

The controls are very basic and un-mappable which for a left handed person like myself was essential for this game. The controls are not very intuitive, feeling really sluggish. I died constantly trying to get past the first platform so gave up after 15 minutes of trying to proceed. A crouch control would have been useful. The games music took me back to the early 1990's when in-game music was a basic loop played on a stylaphone. It was extremely annoying, thankfully you can turn down or off the music via the options menu

Other Reviews and Videos of Expelled:

You can see comments about Expelled HERE and a couple of videos of game play HERE & HERE.

Suggestions:

After you've had an opportunity to play today's giveaway please take a few moments to give some positive or negative feedback; for example, what you liked or disliked about the game, or how it could be improved. If you don't like the genre at all, please explain why and if any, what improvements would change your mind? If you don't have time to post a comment today, please do so at your convenience, thank you. If you wish to post a review or comment about the game later, you can access the comments section by going to the game giveaways home page, then scroll to the bottom of the page where it says Archives and select the date the giveaway was live (giveaway days are in bold type). This will open the appropriate page for you to post your comment or review. Alternatively, you can google the name of the game and include Gamegiveawayoftheday in the search. This should give you a list of links to whenever this game was given away.

If you miss today's game giveaway you can always get the game via Steam for £0.79/$0.99 HERE.

Problems getting the game to work:

If you're having problems installing or activating or getting Expelled to work please visit the FAQ's Thread HERE and read through the communities comments because sometimes fixes have already been posted, for example, a common issue seen since the Themida wrapper was introduced three years ago is that some community members installation of the game are blocked by their security because Themida code has been known to hide malware, (usually an error message is flagged for example 'The executable is corrupted' even though in reality it is not); so as a precaution some anti malware programs will block and even delete the suspect installation files even though the files (i.e. the setup, read me and setup.gcd files are actually totally free from malware. This issue can be solved either by rebooting your computer in safe mode with networking or a quicker method is to temporarily turn off your security software to allow the installation. You could also try white-listing the setup.gcd file. In the almost 12 years this game giveaway site has been operating there has 'never' been a game given away that was infected with malware.

If for any reason you want to contact the giveaway team, for example, you have a game to offer the community, or are unable to download the latest game or other issues that the FAQ's thread or these comments don't cover or solve you can do so HERE

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the developer Whited43 and Falcoware the distributor for giving away Expelled nd also to the game giveaway team, as always, for securing other ways to get free games.

Useful Information not related to today's game giveaway:

Useful Information not related to today's game giveaway:

If Expelled doesn't interest you, but you still hanker for something new to play, you'll find details of some game deals whether they be sale items, indie bundles or games being given away for free HERE (I've not updated the thread in a while, but most of the links still take you to the latest deals).

The rest of the information that used to be posted in the game review can be found in the forums HERE. Finally, check out Delenns threads for details of other free games and offers HERE and elsewhere in the game discussion forums HERE, (usually on the first page of the game discussion forums). The free game over at epic games is Thimbleweed Park until March 7th. worth £14.99/$19.99/€19.99. You can also get the non Steam single player version of Welcome to Princeland for free temporarily via Indie Gala (you'll need a free account to claim the game) HERE; the SP/MP version is usually worth £3.99/$4.99/€3.99 and can be found on Steam HERE. Finally, there are some excellent bargains on sale via Steam HERE (over 2200); for example if like me you love breakout games, one I've been playing recently called Ionball 2: Ionstorm is on sale until 25th February 6pm (UST) for only £041/$49/€0.39