{"id":4153,"date":"2025-04-07T09:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T09:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/4153\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T09:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T09:36:12","slug":"steam-gamers-urged-to-check-out-old-school-free-game-you-definitely-missed-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/4153\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam gamers urged to check out \u2018old school\u2019 free game you definitely missed &#8211; Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Steam gamers urged to check out \u2018old school\u2019 free game you definitely missed\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"article-header_featuredImage__Pe8qH resizable-image_lowRes__5OkaL\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/steam-game-image-collage.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Published 13:00 6 Apr 2025 GMT+1<\/p>\n<p>Who doesn&#8217;t love a freebie <\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">A free game recently added to Steam has proven a huge hit with fans who have taken the time to play it, even though it&#8217;s far from the biggest release of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">2025 has seen its share of massive games so far, with the likes of <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/assassins-creed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed Shadows<\/a> and <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/reviews\/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-review-445941-20250203\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kingdom Come 2: Deliverance<\/a>, so it&#8217;s easy to forget to turn our attention to the smaller games every now and then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Fortunately, some of the smaller and more interesting games added to Steam are often completely <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/free-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free<\/a> to download and play. Unfortunately, they&#8217;re not always so easy to find.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">That&#8217;s why I wanted to turn your attention to Goosthetic, a wonderful new game developed by students at the DigiPen Institute of Technology. It&#8217;s a bright, breezy, colourful 3D shooter that&#8217;s well worth a look.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;Arm yourself with sticky boots, a smart-pistol, and the titular &#8216;Goosthetic&#8217; grappling prosthetic to swing, slide, jump, boost, and shoot your way out of a twisted and abandoned scientific facility,&#8221; <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3573020\/Goosthetic\/#app_reviews_hash\">reads<\/a> the game&#8217;s official description. &#8220;Escape captivity and evade slime mutations in this fast-paced action-platformer FPS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Those who have taken a couple of hours to check it out have a lot of super positive things to say already.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">One <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/steam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steam<\/a> review enthuses: &#8220;This was really fun and had such an old school unique vibe to it that honestly if this was turned into a full release game there is a lot of fun potential here. For puzzles or boss fights even overall really loved it. You know it&#8217;s good when you are sad it&#8217;s over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;Cool movement, cool music, cool art, cool game. Fun to replay and try to beat the times,&#8221; adds another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">A third writes: &#8220;There&#8217;s love put into this game and you can absolutely tell. All the components work together so well and any rough edges are polished by the sheer amount of joy you&#8217;ll get playing the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Be sure to check this one out for yourself if you&#8217;re interested in seeing just what the next generation of talent is up to.<\/p>\n<p>Featured Image Credit: Valve<\/p>\n<p class=\"topics-list_topic__nSIGw\">Topics:\u00a0<a class=\"topics-list_tag__Ryb8j\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/free-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Games<\/a>, <a class=\"topics-list_tag__Ryb8j\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/steam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steam<\/a>, <a class=\"topics-list_tag__Ryb8j\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/indie-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indie Games<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published 13:00 6 Apr 2025 GMT+1 Who doesn&#8217;t love a freebie A free game recently added to Steam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2393,2395,2394,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-4153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-free-games","9":"tag-indie-games","10":"tag-steam","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114296008685214647","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}