If you grabbed Alien: Isolation last December, you should still check it out over on Epic because this time they have included the DLC that wasn't included last year.

Ultimate Puzzles France

In Brief
Ultimate Puzzles France is a simple 16 square piece's jigsaw puzzle with no lugs. You can see a video of game play HERE

The Game
Ultimate Puzzles: France is another of those jigsaw puzzles from UniDen with square shaped puzzle pieces that have no lugs. There are only four images to solve with the game. We've had several of these types of puzzle games previously from the developer UniDen, i.e. America, Countries, Nature, Animals 2, China and Japan as well as a few other non jigsaw games such as Knight's Tetris, and Legend of the Fallen Castle 1 & 2.

Each of the four puzzles is made up of 16 square pieces. which are placed on a 4 x 4 grid i.e. 16 pieces. You can turn each piece by clicking on it to bring it to the right orientation; this does add to the game somewhat with respect to difficulty as it can take longer to get the right orientation. The pieces only turn clockwise. Once a puzzle piece has been placed in the correct position, it locks in place. If you try to place a piece on an element of the grid that it doesn't belong on, it will jump back to the periphery where other pieces are located.

These puzzles are relatively simple. An adult could easily complete the whole game in around 10 to 15 minutes at the very least (I completed one of the easier puzzles i.e. the one looking down the Av. des Champs-Élysées towards the Arc de Tromphe in 90 seconds). I think the developer is asking far too much over on Itch.io for just four jigsaw images at $5 per game. If all of the series were to be combined, it would seem a fairer price, but there are free jigsaw programs available online that in my opinion are much better than this; (okay it's free today)

Other free games worth adding to your game library
The latest Epic freebies include 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. It was previously given away on the 21st December last yea; however this latest giveaway also includes the DLC that wasn't given away the first time; so, if you grabbed the game last time, you still need to go to the site and grab the DLC which adds some extra missions and some skins. Also, this is an opportunity for those who missed it the first time to grab it now. I bought Alien: Isolation when it was first released on Steam back in October 2014 as I love the Alien movie franchise and have purchased all of the games related to the franchise. My favorite game in the series is Aliens versus Predator Classic 2000 that was originally released 21 years ago, and which always gave me the same adrenaline fuelled rush I got when I first watched the original franchise. It was later re released on Steam and is now only £3.99. The re imagined version Aliens vs. Predator released in 2010 looks better visually, but IMO does not have the same scary moments when Aliens suddenly pop up in front of you coming down dark corridors. Even today the original scares me and I get the same feelings I used to get as a child when hiding behind the sofa trying to watch Dr Who.

We also get Hand of Fate 2, 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).

From Tomorrow, 4pm UK time, the games changes to Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms with add-ons. All players who log into Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms through the Epic Games Store between Thursday 29/4/2021 at 11AM Eastern and Thursday 6/5/2021 at 11AM Eastern will receive the Epic Champions of Renown add-on worth over $100.

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.

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. :)

Notes on Security
I scanned a zipped copy of the installed game and it found zero hits from 59 antimalware engines. The downloaded executable 'may' include some very low level adware that only opens your browser to Falcowares home page once after the game has installed, but does not activate further with no malware injected into your computers system files. When your browser is opened to Falcowares home page it earns them some money, part of which is given to the developer of the game for allowing the game to be given away free. If these free game sites did not use this business model, we wouldn't see any free game sites like Falcoware, MPC, TooMky Games, Gametop FreeGamePick etc. You can see the results of the scan via the following link:


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