Try out XCOM, Don’t Starve, and more in Steam’s largest Free Weekend yet

By Will Fulton October 16, 2014

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Steam is currently having its largest Free Weekend ever, offering ten games to all of its users for free from now through Sunday, October 19, and available for discounted purchase if they strike your fancy. The ten games are:

Related: Best gaming product of 2013: Steam

All of those are excellent games that cater to a wide range of tastes. We are particularly partial to Payday 2, a co-op heist game that channels films like Heat and The Town. XCOM is also one of the finest strategy games in recent memory. If the recent announcement about all of the DC Comics superheroes getting films made you excited, Injustice is the perfect way to make them beat the crap out of each other.

All you need is a Steam account and all of these games are yours to try out for the next few days.

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Will Fulton is a New York-based writer and theater-maker. In 2011 he co-founded mythic theater company AntiMatter Collective…

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