Life is all about finding a healthy balance. Sometimes, that works out by flip-flopping between extremes, or at least that's what Epic is trying to say with this week's giveaway.
The two featured games in its weekly freebies are Isonzo, an incredibly traumatic and realistic World War I shooter, and Cozy Grove, an adorable chill game that is best described as Animal Crossing with spirits.
The juxtaposition is intense, but it makes perfect sense when you think about it. Once your mental health is in tatters after running headlong into a machine gun bunker in a snowy mountainside, you will need a therapeutic break in the wild.
Isonzo: An Alpine Nightmare
BlackMill Games has built up quite a reputation with the WW1 Game Series. Starting with Verdun way back in 2015, the franchise grew with Tannenberg (2017) and Isonzo (2022).
As the studio prepares to launch Gallipoli later this year, BlackMill decided to give new players a taste of what it's cooking.
Isonzo boasts a small but extremely loyal playerbase, with populated servers around the clock. The game depicts the brutal battles for the Isonzo Valley between the Kingdom of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, blending stunning Alpine...
