Today’s best game deals: Metroid Dread $50.50, Monster Hunter Stories 2 $40, more

Reg. $60 $50.50
FREE Metroid Dread demo

In today’s best game deals, Walmart is now offering Metroid Dread in digital form for $50.59. Regularly $60 and still fetching $55 in physical form via Amazon, this is matching our previous mention and the lowest price we can find on the brilliant new addition to the long-running series. While you don’t need to know much about past games to enjoy this one, the iconic Samus Aran returns to dawn her suit and descend “upon planet ZDR to investigate a mysterious transmission sent to the Galactic Federation.” Featuring a host of new alien lifeforms and player abilities, Samus is stocked by the new “unrelenting E.M.M.I. robots” as she explores the dangerous new planet in the latest entry to the Metroid franchise. Head below for the rest of today’s best game deals including Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin, Zelda Breath of the Wild Expansion Pass, Destroy All Humans, Back 4 Blood, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and much more. 

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As Captain ashley S. Now AK, “the riftbreaker,” you enter a one-way Portal to galatea 37, A distant planet At the Far reaches of the Milky way. Your purpose is to build and develop a base that will allow travel to and from Earth for further colonization. Ashley’s mecha-suit, which she calls “Mr. Riggs,” can withstand the harshest environmental conditions and has a full range of equipment for base construction, resource extraction, specimen gathering, and of course – Combat. It is also capable of traveling through Rifts that connect space across vast distances.

  • Base building – your task is to construct a two-way Rift connected to Earth; this will be a very complex undertaking requiring as you build up an intricate Chain of mines, refineries, power plants, and research facilities to complete this mission
  • Exploration – galatea 37 is Full of rare minerals and substances that can be found scattered across the globe; various biomes with unknown fauna and flora as well as harsh weather conditions; construct local outposts to transport the resources
  • Defense – as you build and disrupt the natural order, the planet will see you as a threat; defend against thousands of hostile creatures by constructing walls, barriers, and Defense towers
  • Hack, slash, shoot – Mr. Riggs can be equipped with powerful weapons and abilities that will allow you to take on the largest of beasts; you will need to be ready to face lots of hostile alien creatures as you explore the planet
  • Gather samples and strange artifacts – felled beasts will drop valuable research specimens as well as rare resources which you Gather to research and craft new technologies, buildings, weapons, and equipment

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