Popular side-scrolling multiplayer team combat game Awesomenauts is offering a free trial of sorts on Steam right now, giving players one week to try out the game and see if they catch the coordinated ass-kicking bug. For those of you haven’t given this one a spin before, the quick summary is: League of Legends, but 2D, only 2 lanes, and 3 versus 3. Also the community is a bit more pleasant – unless you do really, really bad.
I give this one a shot every now and then with friends, and it’s an extremely well-crafted game with a very active playerbase. If it turns out to be the sort of game you want to play, you can pick it up for 50% off. Those of you who already own it, keep in mind that skins are 50% off as well (save for the recently released Admiral Swiggins) – so it’s a great time to customize your Awesomenaut a little bit.
Victor Grunn has been a gamer since the days of single-button joysticks and the Atari 800XL. When not lamenting the loss of the Ultima series or setting people on fire in Team Fortress 2, he's an aspiring indie game developer and freelance writer.
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