Cyberpunk RPG platformer Dex is free on GOG for a limited time

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It's the latest giveaway in GOG's current sale.

GOG.com is having a sale at the moment that is simply called The GOG Sale, with discounts on varied games like Noita (50% off), Invisible Inc. (75% off), A Plague Tale: Innocence (80% off), and, while we're on the subject of cyberpunk, Deus Ex GOTY Edition (86% off, making it a steal at 97 cents). GOG's also giving away Dex, a sidescroller in the vein of Flashback, for free.

Dex was released in 2015 after being crowdfunded on Kickstarter, where developers Dreadlocks Ltd said, "The levels and gameplay are non-linear and feature alternative solutions to each problem and obstacle. In other words, the game injects the poison (a problem, an enemy, an obstacle) and offers various antidotes (skills, abilities, equipment). The rest is up to you. In our vision, this is what makes an RPG a true Role Playing Game – the freedom to choose how to do things." Dreadlocks Ltd also called it "reminiscent of Castlevania or Metroid titles with a smattering of the Deus Ex and Splinter Cell series."

The setting is Harbor Prime, a city inspired by locations from Blade Runner and Neuromancer, where you can be an assassin, a gunfighter, or a hacker. The hacking system involves swapping to an avatar in cyberspace where you take on countermeasures and viruses to get access to devices you can overload, turrets you can deactivate, and data you can steal.

Here are a few more bargains you can grab from GOG's sale while you're there.

You've got until 6am PST, 11pm AEST, or 1am UTC on August 29 to claim a free copy of Dex on your GOG account. And here's all the other free games you can grab right now too.

Jody Macgregor
Jody Macgregor
Weekend/AU Editor

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC, why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, and how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.