Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Is Epic's Sixth Free Game For The Holidays

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Epic's next free game, which they are giving away for the holidays, is here, and it's another great one. For the next 24 hours, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is available to redeem for free and add to your library to keep.

Developed by Joji Igarashi, the lead producer on the Castlevania series from 1999 to 2011, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a spiritual successor to the series. You run around a castle and get magical abilities to advance further. Of course, you will get new weapons and armor, and we can level up to make ourselves stronger. It's a lot of fun, and truly a great fit for the Steam Deck.

Bloodstained is rated Playable by Valve due to needing to manually bring up the virtual keyboard, and it runs quite well. It can hit 90 FPS for most of the game, and using Proton GE as the compatibility layer should fix any pre-rendered cutscene issues. There may be 1 or 2 crashes, but it's ultimately very playable on the Deck.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night can be redeemed and added to your library for free to keep for 24 hours until December 24th.

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