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Lovely city-builder Cities: Skylines is free on Epic right nowYou have one week to grab a free copy

You have one week to grab a free copy

Image credit:Paradox Interactive

Image credit:Paradox Interactive

An illuminated city at night in a Cities: Skylines screenshot.

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The strategy layer of Skylines isn’t super-great but it’s a lovely game for building nice cities, watching them bustle away, and seeing what happens when you poke, prod, and get carried away with silly massive infrastructure projects. I have seen too many poo lagoons.

We’ve slathered Cities: Skylines in Bests across the years. We’ve called it one of thebest games of the 2010s, the bestbuilding games, the bestnon-violent games, the bestmanagement games… it’s good, y’see?

Hie theeto the Epic Games Storebefore 4pm (8am Pacific) on Thursday the 17th to grab a free copy of Cities: Skylines. Its regular price is £23, so that’s nice.

After that,next week’s Epic freebiewill beIn Sound Mind. Alice Bee played a demo of that first-person horror game a year before its 2021 launch, and said it"adds interesting twists to the ol' ‘insanity, hiding and mannequins’ formula". For free, absolutely I’ll look at how it turned out.

Publishers Paradox also announced this week thatCities: Skylines is coming to Stadia in the spring, news which might thrill as many as six people.

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