Brütal Legend goes free to grab as Double Fine pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, but you'll have be quick

Unless you were up barking astatine the moon

Image credit: Double Fine Productions

Right, present we go, this is gonna person to beryllium be quicker than the tempo of your mean Motorhead thrashathon. Brütal Legend, the dense metallic action-adventure Double Fine enactment retired connected console backmost successful 2009 (before coming to their senses and doing a PC larboard successful 2013), is escaped to drawback arsenic I constitute this, but won't beryllium for overmuch longer.

Following the decease of Black Sabbath frontman and wide look of the metallic Ozzy Osbourne earlier this week, the workplace person decided to springiness retired the crippled successful which helium talks to a roadie voiced by Jack Black for zilch. However, it's a woody that kicked disconnected successful the dormant of the nighttime UK time, and isn't acceptable to tally for overmuch longer.

Brütal Legend became escaped to assertion via PC storefront Itch.io close arsenic July 23rd flipped implicit into July 24rd (UK time-wise) this morning, with the woody moving for a precise apt 666 minutes. That equates to 11 hours oregon so, meaning that arsenic I constitute this, you've got conscionable nether an hr and a fractional near to assertion the crippled without paying a penny.

Well, unless you determine you privation to marque a tip/donation to the devs, arsenic Itch allows you to bash connected checkout. If you bash instrumentality up the deal, you get versions of the crippled for Windows and Ubuntu, positive some 64 and 32 spot Mac editions.

— Double Fine (@doublefine.com) 24 July 2025 astatine 00:00

Osbourne famously plays The Guardian of Metal successful Brutal Legend, an immortal keeper of secrets who besides sells limb upgrades to you, due to the fact that video game. The likes of Lemmy, Rob Halford, and Lita Ford are among the different legendary players of the guitar-ish euphony that Black-voiced roadie protagonist Eddie Riggs encounters arsenic helium battles his mode done some enactment slashing combat and existent clip strategy. Because, similar a batch of bands, Brütal Legend can't rather bring itself to wholeheartedly perpetrate to a azygous genre.

Our Alec wrote the pursuing astir it erstwhile it debuted connected PC:

Brütal Legend looks wonderful, and it feels wonderful, but it isn't rather wonderful, not really. It's ideas without an anchor and, I americium rather sure, were immoderate developer different than Double Fine attempting to stitch these floating fancies unneurotic this crippled would often beryllium intolerable. Fortunately it is Double Fine, and the game's wit, charm and immense personality, some successful penning and successful ocular style, bash crook retired to beryllium susceptible bindings for the escaped corporate of brainstorming within.

Now, quickly, drawback that metallic and get to shredding successful the sanction of Birmingham's finest conductor of kooky locomotives.