Epic Games Store is giving away two fan favorite horror video games with retro styling for free, to celebrate Halloween. And yes, that does seem like an oddly specific category.
- Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into The Pit
- Release Date: August 8, 2024
- Game Type: horror, retro
- POV: 3rd person, 2D sidescroller
- Party: Single player
- DLC: none
Five Nights at Freddy’s is one of those franchises that just prints money, and its horror angle makes it perfect to celebrate Halloween. This one is quite a departure from the usual Five Nights at Freddy franchise, which is usually all first person and 3D graphics. This one uses a very retro vibe, with a pixelated art style. The gameplay is also therefore quite different but with the same crux: don’t get captured by the animatronic weirdos. Love that for you.
- Bendy and the Ink Machine
- Release Date: February 9, 2017
- Game Type: horror, puzzle
- POV: First person
- Party: Single player
- DLC: none
Even though it’s an older title, Bendy and the Ink Machine still makes for a thrilling game to play during the Halloween season. There are several episodes worth of stories to uncover, decipher, and be completely freaked out by. It has a retro vibe as well, but of a completely different era than Into The Pit. More like a Cuphead 1930s animation feel than late 80s video games. It is a very high pressure, high stress narrative puzzle game, which also includes combat, so it’s a fairly unique one and worth picking up.