Epic Games is currently celebrating the 20th anniversary of its seminal first-person shooter Unreal – and you can get it for free on Steam and GOG while the party lasts.
Epic’s celebratory freebie actually takes the form of Unreal Gold, which bundles together the original Unreal and its 1999 expansion Return to Na Pali.
Of course, Unreal played wonderfully too, with development and design duties on the first-person shooter jointly handled by Epic and Digital Extremes – the latter of which is probably best known these days for its impressive free-to-play shooter Warframe.
The original Unreal was quite a revelation at the time, particularly on the visual front – the gaming world hadn’t seen anything quite like Unreal’s striking landscapes, vibrant skyboxes, dazzling lighting, rich textures, and evocative medieval-sci-fi architecture before.