Horror, Homages, Hangouts and Horseriding

Your Epic Week in Review

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Last week, the Epic Games Store’s news page was a smorgasbord of horror, homages, horseriding, and high school hangouts. Here’s your week in review.

Take a cast of talking guns, add a skateboard, mix in a human petting zoo, and add a dash of bootleg cosmetic surgery, and you’re not even close to the bizarre recipe for High On Life 2.

An AI takes control of a human body in Replaced, a game with the cinematics of Blade Runner and the combos of a Batman: Arkham game.

“We didn’t want to make a war game,” Creative Director Gérard Lehiany said about The Legend of Khiimori, which transports players to 13th-century Mongolia and substitutes history’s best horseriders for Genghis Khan.

What Resident Evil Requiem secrets lie hidden inside a steel briefcase, wrapped in yellow police tape?

Ancient alien secrets, thousands of planets, and a snarky, floating companion arrived in Residual, free this week on the Epic Games Store for mobile.

Stay out of sight and earshot, and be sure to unlock the best skills to become a stealth master in Styx: Blades of Greed.

On their last day of high school, three teenagers bond over the greatest music ever created in Mixtape.

A new and mysterious island, a pair of new characters, and a challenging, new post-game arena create the definitive dual-protagonist adventure in Ys X: Proud Nordics.

If you want to dominate Battlefield 6 Season 2, you need to know the best mechanics, builds, and attachments for the first-person shooter’s new weapons.

Resident Evil Requiem is not just horror, and it’s not just action. Producer Masato Kumazawa says it’s the best of both worlds.