Mighty Vikings:

In Brief:
Mighty Vikings is a short 3D action platform puzzler with low poly graphics created using the Unity engine.

You can see a video of game play HERE & via the Steam store page HERE.

You can also see the reviews posted by the Steam community so far since it was released on Steam on the 17th Feb 2021 HERE

Introduction:
You take on the role of Captain Bjorn and go on an adventure and clear the lands of evil spirits.

For a long time, peace and quiet reigned in distant lands. Until one day, unknown creatures appeared who filled these lands with fear and horror. You need to find a ship to hit the road and arm yourself with the most powerful weapons to repel these creatures!
On the way, you have to go through many dangers, fight dragons and other creatures, and finally clear the land of evil and return home!

Explore a colourful world full of adventures and dangers in Mighty Vikings and find new friends and acquaintances.

Game features:
- Eliminate the threat alone. Play a small campaign in single player mode.
- Explore a new hostile world.
- Fight a variety of monsters and bosses.

Reference accessed HERE 22nd June 2021

Controls:
WASD or arrow keys = Movement
E = actions
C = crouch
Space = Jump
P = Pause (brings up pause menu)
Tab = Menu
Q = Current Mission

The Game:
On starting the game you first work through a short tutorial that introduces you to the various controls you will need to use to play the game (see the controls above). You are named Bjorn and are introduced to Bardi who after asking you to grab your equipment (an incongruous gun) takes you to a firing range. Once you've destroyed all the targets you are asked to talk to Orux for your next mission.

When you enter the game proper your mission is to kill waves of enemies that culminate in a boss fight. As you progress you'll pick up two more weapons that includes a blunderbuss and a crossbow that if you hold the fire button gives a more destructive blow. Each weapon recharges over a few seconds once you've emptied it's magazine (or bolt). You can see the mag counter presented as a bar graph in the bottom right of the screen.

Notes on Security
I scanned a zipped copy of the installed game and it found zero hits from 58 antimalware engines. The downloaded executable may include some low level adware that only opens your browser to Falcoware's home page after the game has installed and places four shortcuts onto your desktop (which can be safely deleted once the game has installed). The installation does not inject any malware into your system. When your browser is opened to Falcoware's home page when the game has been installed, it earns Falcoware games some money, part of which is given to the developer of the game for allowing the game to be given away free. You can see the results of the scan via the following link:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/da57aaa113f4bc6a3d6c73245e6c128911633dcef7cc12848d1a36cb548df50c/detection

Other Free Games:
The latest games from Epic Games include Hell is other Demons an action-platform shooter, with Rogue-lite elements and Overcooked! 2; Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons … it’s time to save the world (again!); both will be available next week Thursday 17th June at 4pm UK time/11am EST

Also from Epic, If you play online with friends there's a decent PvE/PvP free FPS game called Scavengers with a coop mode (I checked it out recently and it looks fantastic as well as plays well) and you can still get the clicker RPG Idle Champions as well as other multiplayer games. I've been posting redeemable codes for free chests that contain various buffs and other items for Idle Champions (time limited for 5 to 7 days from the day of posting) over in the forums HERE. They contain various items that boost your heroes abilities and health as well as affect your group of heroes in game, for example potions that boost health or DPS, contracts that can improve armour or weapons already used by the heroes or other contracts that add specific amounts of gold to your bank as well as items of jewellery, armour or weapons that buff your characters stats. I don't usually play clicker type games, but this one is well supported by the developer and has a massive following. I'll be posting codes for as long as I continue to play the game. I've posted some help sheets and links to a game wiki via the above link as well

Please see Delenn's threads for Steam and Non Steam freebies HERE and HERE respectively. Delenn has been updating these regularly for years now. It’s worth adding these links to your favourites 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, it’s yours to keep. Delenn has recently posted details of more Steam games that are temporarily free. One may be until it leaves early access??? - i.e. Tower Ball - Incremental Tower Défense plus a reflex game called Keyboard Killers are still free. Delenn posted details of a free origin came called Battlefield 4 which is available for free if you have an Amazon Prime account (If you like FPS games, it's a brilliant game to own. (not sure if it's still live).
To those who contributed to the Indie Bundle for Palestinian Aid over on Itch.io, they raised $899,963.91, which was a great achievement.

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 favourites 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. :)