Duskers is free this week on the Epic Games Store

Indie hit from 2016

Marco Wutz | Feb 23, 2023

Duskers is free this week on the Epic Games Store /

It’s time for another free game from the Epic Games Store: In Duskers you use various drones to explore a procedurally generated universe full of derelict starships and stations, scavenging what you can to upgrade your equipment. Your goal is to find out what exactly happened to the galaxy to make it so empty and devastated, but you’re not alone – dangerous creatures lurk everywhere and may end your run at any time.

Developer Misfits Attic released the game in 2016, landing one of the biggest indie hits of the entire year and earning praise from critics. You can claim it for free on the Epic Games Store until March 2, 2023, at 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET.

Duskers Screenshot. — Duskers has you exploring the reasons behind the universe's collapse / Misfits Attic

As is tradition, Epic Games has already revealed what game will be free next week – drum roll, please: it’s Rise of Industry by Dapper Penguin Studios, an economy simulation game that sees you become an early 20th century industrialist, who hopes to make the big bucks.

Exploit resources, build infrastructure, create logistics chains, and get those products where they can be sold at the highest price on procedurally generated maps. All the while you need to keep your rivals in check, since they’ll want a piece of your pie – or start a hostile takeover of your company.

Rise of Industry will become free once Duskers leaves the stage on March 2. That’s also when the free game following Rise of Industry will be revealed.

Published Feb 23, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg