Epic Games made The Spectrum Retreat Free!
Epic Games continues to make their users happy with their weekly free games. This time, they decided to distribute a puzzle game, about which most players don’t not know much. In my opinion, Epic Games is saving big games for the their own Summer Sale. The games for the next week are as follows: Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead and Ironcast. Now let’s take a closer look at this week’s free game.
The Spectrum Retreat!
Dan Smith Studios – an independent company – developed the game in 2018. Ripstone Games has undertaken the distribution of The Spectrum Retreat. The Metacritic score of the game is sixty-eight. Its score is relatively low for a puzzle game. However, it still won the Young Game Designers award in the year it was released. The game, which has its own unique puzzle mechanics, blends them with the Superhot-like universe. The basic mechanics of the game are as follows: Focus on the colors of blocks. Switch different colored doors to jump or stand on them. Finally, the player has the opportunity to use these colors to teleport around the levels using specially placed panels.
During these puzzles, certain particles appear for the player’s use. After most of the levels are complete, the player must sleep, listen to Cooper—the “mysterious” person who guides us through the game—to piece together the story unfolding around them, and repeat the cycle. Its story is Portal-like, designed in such a way that the player cannot make sense of it at first, and throughout the game, if the player looks carefully at the objects and story elements around during the puzzles, he/she will have great surprises at the end of the game. In addition, I think it is a very nice detail that the game doesn’t include ready assets in Unity.
We explained the game in general terms. So who should buy The Spectrum Retreat, which is currently free, and who should stay away from it?
Who should buy?
- Those who like three-dimensional puzzles and puzzle games, or those who want to give this genre a chance.
- Those who are keen to analyze and theorize about mysterious, futuristic scenarios.
- Those who like to play games using their memory and intellect, not their keyboard and mouse skills.
- Finally, those who want to see the creativity of independent studios should definitely give this game a chance.
Who should stay away?
- Those who don’t like independent studio productions.
- Those who want to play long-term games, that is, those who like to devote hundreds of hours to a game.
- Those who like to reveal what the scenario is, not with a mystery, but with an immersive narration.
- Those looking for huge gameplay variations.
- Finally, those who want to use their acting skills, not their brains, should stay away from this game and even run away without looking back when they see this game anywhere.
System Requirements
Minimum System Requirements
- Requires 64-bit processor and operating system
- Operating System: Windows 10
- Processor: AMD FX 6300 @ 3.5 GHz or Intel Core i3 or higher processor
- Memory: 4GB of RAM
- Video Card: AMD Radeon RX 550 or Nvidia Geforce GTX 750 Ti or higher graphics card
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 8GB available space
Recommended System Requirements
- Requires 64-bit processor and operating system
- Operating System: Windows 10
- Processor: AMD FX-8350 or Intel Core i5 or higher processor
- Memory: 8GB of RAM
- Video Card: AMD Radeon RX 570 or Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 or higher graphics card
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 8GB available space
How to Download the Game!
- First, we reach the Epic Games Store by clicking here.
- Then, we log in to the store with our account, if we do not have an account, we create an account.
- After logging in to our account, we enter The Spectrum Retreat’s page here and buy it for free.
- Then, you can download it at any time by clicking on the icon of the game that has been added to our library after purchase.
“I don’t trust the Epic Games Store, I use Steam to play my games.” Even if you are one of those, you can access the game’s Steam page here and have the game with a sixty-five percent discount. See you in the next weeks in Epic Games’ new free game news.
