It’s still early in the year, and while there were a few gems that hit the App Store last week, we’re always liable for a slow period around this time of year. As such, when an indie RPG sneaks out mid-week, and for free, we might as well check it out, eh? Mounting Force: The Awakening (Free) is a free, ad-supported real-time RPG, the debut title from Deprecated Software. I’m not going to mince words: this game is ugly. I don’t want to be mean, but it is. The production values are definitely lacking here, there’s visual judder all over the place (the bad kind of screenshake), and the script is riddled with typos.

But while the game is very rough, hopefully a first release that the developer either put out in the name of releasing a game for themselves, or just to get it out the door while they polished it, there’s actually promise here. The script is actually pretty good, it’s got a sardonic attitude to it which pokes fun at RPG conventions and is genuinely chuckleworthy at times. Oh, and the game boasts unlimited party sizes. Death to only having like three people in battle at once, what is this, Soviet Russia?! If you’re bored on a Tuesday with nothing better to do, might as well take this for a spin to at least chuckle at a RPG trope jokes?