Merry Christmas, it’s time to jump into a mech and throw a city. For 72 hours, the GOG digital game store offers free Brigador for shepherds and it’s worth grabbing. Brigador is an isometric shooter about exploding through a future in a variety of mechs and other customizable vehicles, which becomes stealth if you want or deploy massive ammo, if not.
To get Brigador for free, go to GOG’s front page before 2:00 on the 25th (6am Pacific) and scroll down to the big gift banner (don’t be fooled by the lettering “Gift Brigador”). You have to agree to join the GOG mailing list to get the game, so I guess you could discuss whether or not it’s “free” in the strict sense, but what’s really free? The man cannot play Tux Racer alone.
“Make no mistake, Brigador is first and foremost a toy box – assemble your dream match or death tank, take it out for a twist in Bladerunnerville, throw everything away, fight bloodily,” Alec Meer said in the review Our Brigador from 2016 This was before a major review update and a string of others that added and modified bits.
The developers have announced a sequel in 2019, Brigador Killers. Like everything else, it failed to do so in 2020 as planned.
GOG added new games to their winter sales today. Along with a slew of Bethesda Softworks things like Dishonored and Fallout: New Vegas, you’ll find discounts on Cuphead, Streets of Rage 4 (one of our favorite games of the year), Dusk, Amid Evil and more.