The Blair Witch and Ghostbusters video games are currently free on the Epic Store

Blair Witch

Inspired by the cinematic lore of Blair Witch, experience a new story-driven psychological horror game that studies your reactions to fear and stress.

Those looking for some spooky treats to spice up this imminent Halloween weekend would do well to point their mouse fingers in the direction of the Epic Store, where The Blair Witch and Ghostbusters video games are both currently free to download and keep.

That's two pleasingly ghoulish offerings, albeit at completely opposite ends of the spooky scale. The Blair Witch, for instance, is where you'll want to go for a more traditional horror fix, taking developer Bloober Team's distinctive brand of surreal, spatially impossible first-person horror and transplanting it deep into the Black Hills forest of Burkittsville, Maryland.

The ensuing adventure, which sees former police officer Ellis Lynch - and his dog Bullet - joining the hunt for a missing boy, is a fascinating, frequently effective, if rather uneven endeavour.

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