Super Meat Boy is yours to keep if you pick it up on the Epic Games store at its current discounted price of zero dollars. What a bargain. Team Meat’s classic hardcore 2D platformer will be free on Epic’s store until January 10, 2019.
This is the second game that has been available on the Epic Games store for free since it launched earlier this December. The first game was first-person underwatch survival game Subnautica, which is now no longer free, so if you missed it you’ll just have to pay the full price. Don’t worry, though, as the game is well worth the entry fee.
Subnautica and Super Meat Boy are part of what should be a long-running promotion on the Epic Game store which sees a game being offered for free on the platform every two weeks. So, when January 10 rolls around, Super Meat Boy will go back up to full price, and then another game will be available for free for the following two weeks. Pretty sweet deal, huh?
If you’re not familiar, Super Meat Boy is a 2D platform game about a man made of red flesh who sets out to get back his love Bandage Girl after she’s been kidnapped. A fetus in a robot suit who goes by the name Dr. Fetus is the villain here.
Nov 30, 2010 Super Meat Boy is a tough as nails platformer where you play as an animated cube of meat who's trying to save his girlfriend (who happens to be made of bandages) from an evil fetus in a jar wearing a tux. Our meaty hero will leap from walls, over seas of buzz saws, through crumbling caves and pools of old needles.
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If you like to test the dexterity of your thumbs through regular platformer challenges then Super Meat Boy will be right up your street. Be warned, through: there’s no easy mode like there is in Celeste for you to fall back on here. It’s hardcore or nothing.
It’s worth noting that this is a good chance to get familiar with Super Meat Boy if you aren’t already as a new game in the series called Super Meat Boy Forever is coming to the Epic Games store in April 2019.
Epic is giving away free copies of Super Meat Boy, eager to encourage more players to use its new storefront.
All you have to do is log in to the Epic Games Store and click the Super Meat Boy banner. You’ll be taken to the game’s store page, where it’s currently listed at $0.00. Just add it to your cart and check out, and Super Meat Boy will appear in your Epic Games library.
If you haven’t played Super Meat Boy, it’s a hardcore, fast-paced platformer that has you play as the titular Meat Boy, who is trying to save his girlfriend Bandage Girl from the clutches of the evil Dr. Fetus. Along the way, you’ll encounter deadly traps, huge bosses, and ruined factories full of salt, and as Meat Boy you’ll have to rely on quick reflexes and snappy jumping to meet each challenge.
Super Meat Boy originally launched in 2010, and it’s usually $14.99 on the Epic Store. It’s a game that holds up well, and it was created by Tommy Refenes and Edmund McMillen, who went on to make The Binding of Isaac after shipping Super Meat Boy.
Here’s the official Super Meat Boy trailer:
Epic is offering the game for free until January 10, so you’ve got some time to pick up your copy. Earlier this month, Epic had offered up free copies of the excellent Subnautica, and the store has lined up several exclusives (including Ashen and Hades) to help encourage players to make the jump from Steam or other online storefronts.