But in the laissez-faire, cutthroat markets of Mars, you also have to keep an eye peeled for underhanded dealings. In the laissez-faire, cutthroat markets of Mars, you also have to keep an eye peeled for underhanded dealings.Īll that tension comes from the above-board, free-market part of the game. Alternately, if you're watching the price soar past $500 per unit of electronics, and you're sitting on 400 units, you're about to make a killing, but if you wait too long to make your sale, someone else could dump their electronics and kill that price spike before you ever get a chance to capitalize on it.

If someone who mines most of the iron on Mars notices that you're building steel mills, they might stop selling that iron in order to force you to buy it at an increasingly ruinous price. While you can always look around the map to see what your rivals are building and doing, you never really know what people might have stockpiled, or when they might start flooding a market. This all contributes to a persistent sense of paranoia during a game. If that happens, you have to pay whatever those goods cost on the open market, where sometimes a little hydrogen and oxygen are the scarcest commodities in the universe. Since each player's colony and factories require basic inputs however, focusing on valuable finished-goods like electronics and glass means that you might end up running short of water, food, and power. As you might expect, these are the two games of the week on the Epic Games Store, and this time they are Obduction and Offworld Trading Company.The goal in OTC is to make sure you bring the most expensive goods to market when the price is high, before other players can make the same play.

Yesterday we told you about Syberia and Syberia 2, which are currently available on GOG, but you can get two more titles without paying a dime. This week, all gamers have the opportunity to expand their library of games, with no less than four titles, entirely free. To accomplish this, you have to solve a variety of puzzles of several kinds, all presented in the manner of an investigation where you have to gather clues. This is the basic premise of Obduction, and your goal is to get back home. But before he can say ‘wow’, he is transported to an unknown place, somewhere in the universe. In Obduction, you play as a character who witnesses a mysterious organic artifact fall to Earth while walking by a lake. The game’s story is quite enigmatic and will reveal itself to you as you progress. The former, Obduction, is a critically acclaimed independent sci-fi adventure game.

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