Ultimate Puzzles Nature 2

In Brief
Ultimate Puzzles Nature 2 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: Nature 2 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, France, 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 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
The latest game from Epic is now live and will be available until Thursday 13th May (4pm UK time), HERE . It's an open-world action adventure RPG set in a simulated world in which humans never reached the top of the food chain. Fight with or against a variety of species as you make your way to a new home for your human tribe. From the 13th it will be replaced with "The Lion’s Song" a narrative adventure game which you can find HERE.

There's also a Starter pack for World of Warships worth $25 being given away via Epic at the moment HERE and Nubarron: The adventure of an unlucky gnome is still totally free over on Steam until late Sunday 9th May.

Please see Delenns threads for Steam and Non Steam freebies HERE and HERE respectively. It’s worth adding these 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, it’s yours to keep.

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. :)