Weekend Price Drops: Hit Yourself Edition

Assassins free.

I’ve written before of my affection for Square Enix’s beautifully realised Hitman GO, and now (lucky me) I have the opportunity to do so again: it’s the “Free Game of the Month” courtesy of IGN.

Some PT readers have reported that the slightly Byzantine process required to redeem your free copy – which I’m told entails a loyalty oath, a geography quiz, and a small (mostly painless) hot-iron brand of the IGN logo on a forearm — can be a bit tricky, but it’s probably worth it. Hitman GO is one of the year’s best puzzle games and is reassuring proof that AAA studios can make mobile games that aren’t icky free-to-play garbage.

To get your free iOS Universal copy of Hitman GO, roll up one sleeve and visit this URL. Supplies are apparently limited so don’t dawdle.

More discounts after the jump.

Here’s the trailer for Hitman GO — if the free IGN copies are all gone by the time you read this, believe me when I say it’s well worth the five-dollar regular asking price. Squeenix have dropped a fair amount of additional content on the game since launch. There’s some IAPs in this thing but they’re the innocuous “expansion pack” variety, and all of the content can be unlocked just by beating previous levels. Also on Android.

Riddick: The Merc Files is no classic (it got a ho-hum from me when I reviewed it a year ago) but if it’s been a while since you heard Vin Diesel say something other than “I am Groot“, the price on this isometric stealth action game has dropped down to a buck, and there’s a loving spoonful of Vin’s voice acting in there. This one’s on Android, too, but no discount over on that side.

Speaking of under-whelming games, Star Command is on sale for a dollar. This early Kickstarter success tantalised us with the promise of a full-on open world Star Trek experience, then delivered something several parsecs short of that. Read my review from last year for more details on that.

Developers Warballoon recently started talking about an expanded PC version of the game that gives the player something other than muddy RTS combat to do, though the announcement made exactly no splash on the PC gaming sites. Don’t cry Feature-promising Wolf, is the lesson there, I think. This isn’t a great game but if you want to pay a buck to see what the fuss was about, now’s your chance.

Munin (no, not Moomin) is the Norse mythological 2D puzzle/platformer Neumann wrote about here back in June. You play as Odin’s titular raven messenger who’s been transformed by Loki into a human, and you have to solve 77 challenges (eat your heart out, Herakles) to get your feathers back. Discounted to two bucks on iOS right now.

Finally, Infinity Blade III, the latest installment of the soon-to-conclude fantasy action series is on sale for three dollars, down from the usual seven right now.