Rescue Operation:

In Brief:
Rescue Operations is a first person shooter created using the Unity engine. We've had lots of these from another developer (Jurij), though Laush's versions are a big improvement on those arena style shooters. Laush has previously given us lots of Jigsaw puzzles and other games such as Cossacks and Magic, Basket Ball Hoop, TEXT, plus a few other FPS games such as the Cemetery Warrior trilogy.

You can see a few videos of game play HERE, HERE & via the Steam store page HERE.

You can also see some reviews (positive) posted by the Steam community so far since it was released on Steam on the 21st April HERE

Introduction:
Rescue Operation is a first-person shooter. The game will follow the scenario of the game, and destroy the enemies in its path. Agent "Odyssey" reported that the enemy base is conducting terrible experiments on prisoners. It's time to get our agent out of this hell. The Alpha group brings out the agent, the Omega will get all the information about the results of the research.

Key features of the game:
- There is an interesting plot;
- Pleasant soundtrack;
- Addictive gameplay.

The Game:
Initially I had difficulty starting the game following the intro scene which takes about a minute to complete and is un-skippable. To start the game press the right arrow key to activate the play button, then you can either press enter or use the LMB to start the game.

The graphic is decent and the game play is okay. I've played better but this is only a cheap Unity game and the effort put in is actually quite good. you can keep track of your mission status by pressing the TAB key. this will give you updates on what to do next as well as show you a map of the area you are in.

Overall, this is a well made FPS game that usually costs less than £3. If you enjoy FPS games but don't have the latest AAA games, then this is a reasonable alternative. It's not ArmA, Call of Duty, etc, but it's okay for free or for the usual Steam price. The Steam community also give it a reasonably positive reception. Unlike other FPS games we've received over the last year, this one has a story and a progression, be it linear. Still definitely one to download and check out.

Notes on Security
I scanned a zipped copy of the installed game and it found one hit (cyclance) from 58 antimalware engines. This is almost certainly a false positive and may be accounted for by the low level adware that Falcoware games are usually identified with. 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/e78748c10e34cb70692ca2c8c22a719c5554f24cd9be2eaaa969a1c7277b7eeb/detection

Other Free Games:
The latest game from Epic Games is called Control a third person action adventure. There's also another game this week that was added Wednesday called Genshin Impact an open world anime RPG adventure. Both are available free until the 17th June.

Next weeks 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).

Please also check out Delenn's thread about the charity bundle over in the forums that costs $5 (or as much as you wish to donate over $5) and includes over a thousand games HERE; Dana also posted a link to the bundle a few days ago.

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. :)