Brütal Legend is free in honor of Ozzy Osbourne, but only for 666 minutes

There aren't many truly metal games—except for those that are accidentally very metal, like Dark Souls—but Brütal Legend is one of them. As Tyler pointed out yesterday, the late Ozzy Osbourne makes a cameo in the 2009 Double Fine action-adventure. Now the latter has made the game free on Itch.io to honour the prince of darkness, but you'll need to act fast, because the offer will only last for 666 minutes.

666 is, of course, the number of the beast, a fact I first learned from Iron Maiden. It's hardly the only lesson I've learned from metal. Type O Negative taught me Pi to its 13th digit and Cradle of Filth taught me how to describe unusual sexual acts in romantic style English.

Brütal Legend was met with a lukewarm reception back in 2009, which feels like an injustice in retrospect. It released slapbang in the middle of the 360-era brown shooter, and dared do something different. People seem to like it a lot more nowadays, and not just because Ozzy Osbourne is in it. When it finally hit PC in 2013, our reviewer described it as "rough as the back of an old rocker's throat, but gleeful whether you dream heavy metal nightmares or not".

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Shaun Prescott is the Australian editor of PC Gamer. With over ten years experience covering the games industry, his work has appeared on GamesRadar+, TechRadar, The Guardian, PLAY Magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald, and more. Specific interests include indie games, obscure Metroidvanias, speedrunning, experimental games and FPSs. He thinks Lulu by Metallica and Lou Reed is an all-time classic that will receive its due critical reappraisal one day.

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