In Undying, time is your greatest enemy besides the undead, while you try to protect the most important thing in the world: your child.
Update from February 6, 2025: Time marches on relentlessly as always, so the Epic alarm is ringing for us. It’s already Thursday again, which means you only have a few hours left for the current free offer. If you want to experience an exciting and painful story about a mother and the end of the world, grab the title today by 4:59 p.m.
Original message: Like every week, the Epic Games Store is giving away a free game that can be downloaded from the Epic Games Store. This week, you can get a survival game for free that puts you in the worst nightmare of every parent. In Undying, you have to protect your child in the midst of the zombie apocalypse, but time is running out for you.
Free on Epic: Undying
(Genre: Survival Adventure – Developer: Vanimals – Release: October 19, 2021)
(Zu Undying on the Epic Games Store )
In an alternate reality, Earth is hit by a zombie apocalypse in 1992. You play Anling, who is trying to survive with her 10-year-old son Cody and is searching for his father, who has suddenly disappeared.
The problem: Anling is bitten at the beginning of the game and contracts the virus that turns people into the undead. So Undying is also a race against the clock.
So you try to teach Cody everything you can that he’ll need to survive. The AI-controlled boy learns from the actions you take as Anling in the game.Cooking, crafting, and fightingHe learns by watching and gradually begins to intervene more and more independently in the game.
On your journey through the game world, you have to take care of food and clean water; there are also materials to discover that you can use to make tools, weapons, and all kinds of useful items. You will also encounter other survivors who either want to help or harm you. You decide how the encounter unfolds and what consequences result from it.
In Undying is a deeply emotional story about what it means to love and let go.On SteamThe low-polygon game currently has79 percent positive reviews The game’s successful mix of a heart-wrenching story and resource management is praised.
On the other hand, there is criticism of the difficulty level, which is quite demanding even at the beginning. In addition, the translation from the Chinese original is not entirely successful in some places. But at least there is a little cat that you can find and take care of.
You have until February 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM PST time to add the game to your Epic Games Store library for free. A new free title from the Steam competitor can be expected next week.
