In Undying, time is your biggest enemy alongside the undead as you try to protect the most important thing in the world.
Like every week, there is a free game to grab from the Epic Games Store. This week, you can get a survival game that puts you in the worst nightmare of every parent. In Undying, you have to protect your child in the middle of the zombie apocalypse, but time is running out.
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 her suddenly disappeared husband.
The problem: Anling is bitten at the beginning of the game and becomes infected with 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 takes more and more independent action 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 things. 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, there is a deeply emotional story about what it means to love and also to let go. On Steam The game in the low-polygon look currently has 79 percent positive ratings 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 right from the start. 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 time to add the game to your Epic Games Store library for free. A new free title from the Steam competitor will be available next week.
