Epic Games Store is giving away Together After Dark until April 5

Together After Dark is a four-player psychological horror survival game that officially launched on January 19, 2025. It spent about six months in Early Access starting in June 2024 before hitting its 1.0 release. The premise puts you and up to three friends in the shoes of teenagers trapped in a dark forest. You have to escape without being caught by unseen threats.

The developers opted for a found-footage visual style. This camera filter approach has been popular in horror games ever since Outlast popularized the camcorder aesthetic a decade ago. It obscures distant details and adds a layer of grain that helps hide lower-budget texture work. When you are running through trees in the pitch black, poor visibility is basically a requirement for building tension.

59 percent positive on Steam

The game normally costs $2.99 on Steam. I have a soft spot for budget co-op horror games. The inevitable physics glitches and networking hiccups are half the entertainment value when you are yelling at your friends over a headset. The Steam user base has given it a "Mixed" rating, with exactly 59 percent of its 249 user reviews sitting in the positive column. It sits in that crowded middle ground of indie horror titles trying to capture the chaotic energy of games like Lethal Company or Phasmophobia.

Epic lists ALMNHALI as the publisher

There is a weird discrepancy with this specific release. On Steam and other platforms, RedForge is credited as both the developer and the publisher. If you look at the Epic Games Store page right now, the developer and publisher fields both say "ALMNHALI" instead. Neither company has clarified why the branding changed for this specific storefront, or if it is simply a database error on Epic's backend.

Eight years of free PC games

Epic launched its PC storefront in December 2018 to compete directly with Valve. Their primary tactic for getting people to install another launcher has always been free software. Tim Sweeney's company has spent millions securing these weekly giveaways for over seven years. The strategy was originally designed to break Steam's near-monopoly on PC game distribution.

Valve still dominates the market. Epic has managed to build a massive user base anyway, simply by training people to log in every Thursday for free games. They hand out everything from massive blockbusters like Grand Theft Auto V and Death Stranding to tiny indie projects like this one.