As the holiday-season 15-day giveaway from Epic Games is fast approaching its climax, the company has dropped one of the all-time great games to be claimed for free. The latest addition to the giveaway brings Salt and Sanctuary, which is currently available on epic games for free.

Salt and Sanctuary features beautiful 2D hand-drawn visuals, as well as gameplay mechanics similar to the Souls series. The game at its core is an action hack and slash RPG with a well-written enticing storyline.

The game begins with the player stowed away in a ship that is also carrying a princess from an unnamed country who is to be married to an opposing country’s king in order to avert war. However, a group of marauders attack the ship, murdering its crew. If the player kills all the marauders and escapes to the deck, they are then set upon by a giant “Kraekan” (a corruption of Kraken) of the sea resembling Cthulhu. Whether or not they are able to defeat the marauders and the powerful kraeken, the ship is wrecked, sending them drifting to shore on a mysterious island.

The game is a joy as well as a challenge to play and guarantees enjoyment and a sense of accomplishment. The game is one of if not the best to come out of this Epic games giveaway so far and is free to claim for the next 24 hours. But if you miss the time window, you can’t claim the game again.

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