Right, here we go, this is gonna have to be be quicker than the tempo of your average Motorhead thrashathon. Brütal Legend, the heavy metal action-adventure Double Fine put out on console back in 2009 (before coming to their senses and doing a PC port in 2013), is free to grab as I write this, but won’t be for much longer.
Following the death of Black Sabbath frontman and general face of the metal Ozzy Osbourne earlier this week, the studio have decided to give out the game in which he talks to a roadie voiced by Jack Black for zilch. However, it’s a deal that kicked off in the dead of the night UK time, and isn’t set to run for much longer.
Brütal Legend became free to claim via PC storefront Itch.io right as July 23rd flipped over into July 24rd (UK time-wise) this morning, with the deal running for a very apt 666 minutes. That equates to 11 hours or so, meaning that as I write this, you’ve got just under an hour and a half left to claim the game without paying a penny.
Well, unless you decide you want to make a tip/donation to the devs, as Itch allows you to do on checkout. If you do take up the deal, you get versions of the game for Windows and Ubuntu, plus both 64 and 32 bit Mac editions.
To honor Ozzy’s larger-than-life rock and roll legacy, we’re making Brütal Legend *FREE* on itch.io: doublefine.itch.io/brutal-legend
But this incredible deal will only last for 666 minutes, as the prophecy foretold. So get yourself clicking, before it disappears like a demon in the night…
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— Double Fine (@doublefine.com) 24 July 2025 at 00:00
Osbourne famously plays The Guardian of Metal in Brutal Legend, an immortal keeper of secrets who also sells weapon upgrades to you, because video game. The likes of Lemmy, Rob Halford, and Lita Ford are among the other legendary players of the guitar-ish music that Black-voiced roadie protagonist Eddie Riggs encounters as he battles his way through both action slashing combat and real time strategy. Because, like a lot of bands, Brütal Legend can’t quite bring itself to wholeheartedly commit to a single genre.
Our Alec wrote the following about it when it debuted on PC:
Brütal Legend looks wonderful, and it feels wonderful, but it isn’t quite wonderful, not really. It’s ideas without an anchor and, I am quite sure, were any developer other than Double Fine attempting to stitch these floating fancies together this game would frequently be intolerable. Fortunately it is Double Fine, and the game’s wit, charm and huge personality, both in writing and in visual style, do turn out to be capable bindings for the loose collective of brainstorming within.
Now, quickly, grab that metal and get to shredding in the name of Birmingham’s finest conductor of kooky locomotives.
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