Obsidian RPGs Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny are next week's free Epic Store games Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Obsidian RPGs Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny are next week's free Epic Store games And Cave Story+ is free now. News by Matt Wales Reporter Updated on 4 Dec 2020 18 comments There's a double-whammy of Obsidian-Entertainment-shaped RPG freebies coming to the Epic Games Store next week, so if you've been eager to sink your adventuring mitts into either Pillars of Eternity or Tyranny, you now know where to point your internet in the coming days. They're both good 'uns, of course, with Pillars of Eternity managing to secure itself a Eurogamer Recommended badge when it released back in 2015. It's a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate, deliberately designed to replicate the nostalgic old-school whiff of '90s RPGs - which is to say, exactly what the 73,000 people who stumped up four million dollars to support the project on Kickstarter were hoping for. There's overworld exploration and dungeon crawling to be done as one of the game's eleven classes - Barbarian, Chanter, Cipher, Druid, Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Priest, Ranger, Rogue, and Wizard - and the end result is an experience Eurogamer called "an RPG with [its] design firmly rooted in nostalgia, but one that absolutely doesn't rely on it to be enjoyable today." Watch on YouTube Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition trailer. "Instead," reviewer Richard Cobbett continued, "it's both a great reminder of why those games worked so well, and a brand new adventure well worth the hours upon hours (upon hours upon hours) that it takes to pick away at its secrets and its world". As for Tyranny, that also secured itself a Eurogamer Recommended when it released the following year. It's similarly nostalgic in presentation, but starts off with a slightly more characterful premise, casting players as a very definitely bad guy - more specifically, as the arbiter of law in an utterly bleak world devastated by a despot. Watch on YouTube Tyranny trailer. Eurogamer called the ensuing adventure "terrifying, captivating, and desperately sad, where you wade through a sea of death and torment clinging onto whatever scrap of humanity you can". Reviewer Rick Lane felt an excessive focus on combat let the side down, but its unflinching dedication as a "dark cousin" to Pillars of Eternity ultimately won out. "In the end," he wrote, "Tyranny has far more of import to say, and it'll make you listen whether you like it or not." Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny will be available to add to your Epic Games library for free from next Thursday, 10th December, for precisely one week. And before all that, acclaimed Metroidvania-style platformer-adventure Cave Story+ is your current weekly freebie. Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More News Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 59 Modder dives into Demon's Souls files following PS5 jailbreak, discovers fabled Ring of the Chieftain Who knows what's nexus? 3 Google announces cloud gaming Chromebooks less than a fortnight after Stadia shutdown GeForce Now preinstalled. 10 Latest Articles Preview Football Manager's new Console edition is the best you'll get without a PC Getting Touch-right. Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 59 Modder dives into Demon's Souls files following PS5 jailbreak, discovers fabled Ring of the Chieftain Who knows what's nexus? 3 Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store