Epic Games Store: The next mysterious free game is a Wolfenstein shooter

It’s Thursday night and Epic Games has introduced the next free game. It’s not just any game, but one of four “mysterious” free games that all fall into the “genuine top titles” category, according to Epic. So far that’s been Borderlands 3, the Bioshock Collection, and now Wolfenstein: New Order. One last game is still open.

Wolfenstein at Epic Games

With Wolfenstein: The New Order, the notorious series celebrated its comeback on May 20, 2014. The action game from Machine Games and Bethesda relied on the id-Tech 5 and nibbled graphics memory like no other game with all the details. The gritty shooter is set in an alternate history scenario in the 1960s, where the Nazis have won the war and brought the earth under their dire yoke.

So now there’s the shooter free at Epic Games. Anyone who has reasonably up-to-date hardware by today’s standards should smile wearily at the system requirements. It was completely different back then, because at the time of release there were massive problems with streaming, especially with Radeons. Back then, hardly any gamer was immune to frame drops, whether it was Radeon or Geforce.

The 18 shooter Wolfenstein: New Order got a sequel in 2017 with Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, also developed by the Swedish studio Machine Games. For Germany, the original version was adapted according to the legal situation – in 2018 the USK changed its procedure and immediately took into account social adequacy when computer games use forbidden symbols such as the swastika or certain runes. After a re-examination of the title, Wolfenstein 2 has been available as an uncut version in Germany since November 22, 2019. The spin-off Wolfenstein: Youngblood was released on July 26, 2019.