Epic continues to frisbee out the free games, as backlogs around the globe grow so unwieldy they're liable to topple over and squish their owners flat. But should you be willing to risk your chances against Death itself, then, hey, why not add Observer and Alan Wake's American Nightmare to your library later today?

Both games, of course, paddle in the wading pool of blood that is the horror genre (appropriately enough, given the season), with Bloober Team's Observer taking the surreal sci-fi approach, while Alan Wake's American Nightmare offers up a Twilight-Zone-inspired slice of small-town terror. They're both good!

Observer time-travels players to 2084, and a dilapidated apartment building in a dystopian version of Krak w, Poland. Here, they take on the role of Daniel Lazarski (voiced by Rutger Hauer), a so-called Observer detective attempting to track down his estranged son.

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UPDATE 2.30PM: Speaking to Eurogamer, Alan Wake developer Remedy has teased the possibility of a multiplatform release for its previously Microsoft-owned hero.

"The only thing we want to clarify, now that Remedy owns the publishing rights, is that we could bring Alan Wake to different platforms if we so choose," a Remedy spokesperson told me this afternoon.

"We have nothing to announce for now. We are fully focused on Control releasing on 27th August."

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