Iris and the Giant is a stylish, sometimes sad rogue-like card game about a young woman who confronts her inner demons and broken memories while climbing a metaphorical mountain to confront the furious giant at the top. I really liked the art style when I looked at it a few years ago, and although card games are not really my thing, I found it accessible and rewarding, even when I was up against difficulty levels.
If you’re curious, but maybe not completely convinced, you can now grab it all for yourself, for free, with permission from GOG’s Indie Spring Sale. Just scroll down the front page of GOG, find the giveaway banner, and claim the game – you should sign up for the mailing list if you have not already done so, but it seems like a fair deal to me.
GOG’s Indie Spring Sale is like most spring sales except, as you may have guessed, it’s about indie games. And there are some really good deals to get: Well-known hits like Disco Elysium: Final Cut (65% off), Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (75% off), Pig (70% off) and Sable (35% off)) are plentiful , but there are also lots of things that are just downright cheap. The sadly underrated Long Journey Home, for example, is $ 1, and Aer: Memories of Old is $ 1.50. Memoria, a unique “classic” point-and-click adventure, costs $ 2, Flower is $ 1, Florence is $ 2, and Rusty Lake Hotel (which I love) is $ 1.
It strikes me sometimes as strange that I can not buy a cup of coffee for 1 dollar, but I can pick up some really good video games for that price – weird, but also pretty cool. In any case, GOG’s Indie spring sale is on until April 18 – the Iris and the Giant gift ends a day before that, however, at. 9.00 ET on April 17th.