Heat up for the following Borderlands game with a standalone DLC, now free on Story

Borderlands is a series acknowledged for its explicit stamp of humor. But as sarcastic and goofy because the indispensable video games are, the DLC takes it up a notch, starting up with remark zombies and getting continuously more bizarre. Runt Tina’s Assault on Dragon Preserve, the last and most out-there DLC for 2012’s Borderlands 2, is now being offered as a standalone game. And, for the next few days, you may perchance presumably additionally lift it up with out cost on the Story Games Retailer.

Runt Tina’s Assault on Dragon Preserve stars the titular tween, a unfriendly-mouthed facet personality from Borderlands 2 (expertly voiced by Ashly Burch, who also plays protagonist Aloy in Horizon: Zero Ruin of day, amongst many others). Struggling to process the peril following the death of a buddy within the indispensable game, she invitations players to affix her in a session of Bunkers & Badasses, a pen-and-paper role-playing game that shall be familiar to any individual who’s ever rolled a D20.

The action then switches to the in-universe RPG, with players going thru a memoir memoir as urged by Tina. Gameplay is more or much less the corresponding to original Borderlands — jog spherical gigantic environments, shoot everything that strikes, carry along some co-op visitors ought to you may perchance presumably additionally — nonetheless it’s a protracted riff on memoir movies and video video games. The DLC’s story is filled with callbacks to the indispensable game, and there are some surprisingly touching moments because the characters reach to terms with just a few of its much less examined low choices. It isn’t mandatory to fetch played thru the Borderlands 2 story to revel in it, nonetheless it’s highly urged.

Runt Tina’s Assault on Dragon Preserve is the clear inspiration for the following fats-length Borderlands game, Runt Tina’s Wonderlands, coming in March of 2022. Whereas Dragon Preserve isn’t a prequel, the upcoming game is the truth is a fats-length riff on the the same opinion. To score of us furious for it, 2K is releasing Dragon Preserve as a standalone game on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. Players don’t want to fetch any outdated Borderlands video games to play it.

On consoles and Steam, the sport is $10, but ought to you dash on over to the Story Games Retailer on PC, you may perchance presumably additionally add it to your myth with out cost between now and November 16th.