Death Coming is a non-linear puzzle game in which you are a sort of assistant middle-manager of death who must kill humans and harvest their souls in bizarre Final Destination-style "accidents," and is free all week on the Epic Games Store.

According to developer Next Studios, "Death Coming" offers a variety of themes and scenarios, with "hundreds of distinctive and dangerous" objects to play with. NPCs have different traits and behaviors as they live in the city, and you can effectively To kill them effectively and with flair, you need to figure it out: of course, your ingenious killing spree does not make you invincible. The agents of light will do everything in their power to ruin your plans and hard work.

The Epic Games Store is fairly thin on description, but the basic concept is pretty straightforward, and you can see more of it at nextstudios.com (though the English is a bit sloppy - Next Studios is based in Shanghai). May 14, 11am ET time), free of charge until May 14 at 11:00 a.m. ET! For that price, you can't go wrong.

Normally we would be here to tell you about next week's gift game, but Epic is being unusually tight-lipped: it's a mystery at the moment. We will know what it is in a week.

(See, I wasn't kidding. It's a mystery.)