Grab Cities: Skylines for free on Epic right now Rock Paper Shotgun Support us Join our newsletter Visit our store Sign in / Create account If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Lovely city-builder Cities: Skylines is free on Epic right now You have one week to grab a free copy News by Alice O'Connor Associate Editor Published on March 10, 2022 12 comments The latest weekly giveaway on the Epic Games Store is a nice one, with Cities: Skylines free for keepsies if you grab it by next Thursday. First released in 2015, it's a city-building game that's quite nice to play around with, putting your utopian visions and public transport dreams into practice or simply seeing if you can do better than your local planners (council? more like clowncil, eh? right? eh? that's them told). Watch on YouTube 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 the best games of the 2010s, the best building games, the best non-violent games, the best management games... it's good, y'see? Hie thee to the Epic Games Store before 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 freebie will be In 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 that Cities: Skylines is coming to Stadia in the spring, news which might thrill as many as six people. Looking for more freebies? Check out our list of the best free PC games to play in 2022. More News Jack King-Spooner's next handcrafted game has a teaser demo out Judero brings chat and action in the Scottish Borders Alice O'Connor 17 hours ago 1 If you were hoping for any Overwatch 2 balance changes then you'll have to wait until season two The next season begins in December CJ Wheeler 18 hours ago 3 The Dead Space remake will chuck random Necromorphs at you as you wander the Ishimura In space, no one can hear you proper bricking it CJ Wheeler 18 hours ago 8 Valve register mysterious new Neon Prime trademark in the US It doesn’t seem to be for a particularly colourful Steam Deck CJ Wheeler 20 hours ago 11 Latest Articles What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Alice O'Connor an hour ago 22 Past Wordle answers Here's an archive of previous Wordle words Ollie Toms 2 hours ago 1 Wordle answer today (Saturday 15 October) Hints and the answer to today's Wordle word Rebecca Jones 9 hours ago Overwatch 2 hero tier list Which are the best heroes in Overwatch 2? Ollie Toms 16 hours ago Supporters Only You're probably better than me at One Many Nobody You go on without… uh, you? Sin Vega 17 hours ago Supporter podcast - The Nate Files episode 13: dry bones Bad science is also FUN science! Alice Bell 18 hours ago Japanese dating show Love Wagon has surprising parallels with Yakuza and Persona My new obsession Ed Thorn 2 days ago If you're hankering after Bayonetta 3, Valkyrie Elysium might be a good substitute It's not out on PC until next month, but the console demo has been a surprise charmer Katharine Castle 1 week ago 4 We've been talking, and we think that you should wear clothes Total coincidence, but we sell some clothes Buy RPS stuff here