The Epic Games Store is rounding off April 2025 with a new round of free game giveaways. Available for a short time, Chuchel can be added to your Epic Games library alongside a slew of in-game items for Albion Online, a free-to-play sandbox MMORPG.
Alex Alderson, Published 04/24/2025 🇨🇳 🇫🇷 …
Windows Gaming Deal
The Epic Games Store has updated its free games offering on PC. To recap, the storefront has been discounting Botanicula since last Thursday alongside $100 worth of in-game items for Firestone Online Idle RPG. To end April 2025, it has now dropped Chuchel from its $9.99 MSRP, which averages 80/100 and 81/100 on OpenCritic and Metacritic, respectively.
A comedy adventure game, Chuchel comes from Amanita Design that also developed Botanicula. Available on iOS and Nintendo Switch too (curr. $299 on Amazon), Chuchel should run on pretty much any computer that supports Windows 10. Specifically, Amanita Design’s system requirements only mention 1 GB of RAM, an Intel HD 4000 GPU and an unspecified dual-core processor with up to 2.3 GHz clock speeds.
This week’s giveaway includes multiple free game items for Albion Online too, including 350 Community Tokens and 250 Learning Points. Please see the list below for more details. Today’s giveaway will start at 15:00 UTC and will last until May 1 at 14:59 UTC. Please see Epic Games’ store listings linked below for more details.
Albion Online free in-game items
10 Adept’s Focus Restoration Potions
10 Adept’s Tomes of Insight (worth a total of 100,000 Fame)
250 Learning Points
3 days Premium
350 Community Tokens
Knight Adventurer vanity bundle
Mistbison mount skin
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We’ve had very few PlayStation Plus leaks lately, but it appears we may know what at least one of next month’s PS Plus Essential titles is going to be.
PS Plus Essential titles are released on the first Tuesday of the month, with a reveal of the lineup the previous Wednesday, which means we won’t know for sure what’s coming next month until the last day of April. But this seems pretty likely given the timing.
As spotted by reddit user ShaneTVZ, it appears the Until Dawn remake could be one of May’s free titles. The reddit user posted this screenshot on the PlayStation Plus subreddit:
Until Dawn originally released way back in 2015. It remains one of my favorite horror games, taking the classic “group of attractive young people goes on vacation and gets killed one-by-one” movie trope and making it an interactive adventure where players have to make choices and outcomes can vary. It’s been years since I played, but if the 2024 remake is one of next month’s PS Plus offerings, I’ll happily dive back in.
The game has quite the cast. Hayden Panettiere, Peter Stormare, Rami Malek and lots of other talented actors offer their voice acting skills and likenesses, making this a genuinely cinematic experience.
The original game was developed by Supermassive Games, while the remake was handled by Ballistic Moon. The remake itself did not fare well with critics, though it has a “Mostly Positive” rating on Steam. The original game didn’t come to PC, so this was the first time PC players were able to take it for a spin. Most of the criticism from gamers is lackluster performance. Critics mostly said the remake felt more like a remaster and was largely unnecessary, adding little value to the original with only mildly improved graphics.
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Still, free is free and I’d happily dive back in now that I’ve had a decade to forget the story. The leak seems especially likely given that the Until Dawn movie just hit theaters and appears to be a hot mess. I’m not surprised it’s getting poor reviews. When the trailer first released, the only thing I could think was how little it actually looked like the game it was purportedly based off of, which is weird given how easily this game could translate to the big screen.
What the other two (or possibly three) PS Plus games headed to May’s lineup are remains a mystery. We’ll know more this Wednesday. And obviously, since this is not confirmed, take everything with a grain of salt.