Epic Games Launches Vacation Sale With Cities: Skylines Free For 24 Hours

Cities: Skylines is free for one day today. Epic Games kicked off their vacation sale by offering free play every day for 15 days, and city building sim Cities: Skylines is the first on the list. The game is available for free on the Epic Games store today, December 18, until 9:30 p.m. IST, after which players will have to pay for it. The Epic Games holiday sale started on December 17th and will offer a different free game every 24 hours. The only caveat is that players have no way of knowing what will happen the next day.

Cities: Skylines is the first of 15 free games that Epic plans to offer to its users through the Epic Games store. The game launched in 2015 and was recently made available on the Epic store. It received “overwhelmingly positive” reviews on Steam. It is a city simulation game where players have to create and maintain a real city, taking into account all the difficulties that come with it.

As a reminder, Cities: Skylines is available for free only until 9:30 p.m. IST today. When not for sale, the game is priced at Rs. 709 on the Epic store and Rs. 729 on Steam. To download the game from the Epic store, all you need is a free account which can be created here.

Each free game offered by Epic during the sales period will be available for 24 hours and then replaced with the next game. But not an everyday free game, the Epic Games Store vacation sale also has deals up to 75% off select titles. Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla (Review) is on sale for Rs. 2,489, a reduction of 17% from its retail price of Rs. 2,999. Immortals: Fenyx Rising (Review) has a 33% discount and goes for Rs. 2,009. Stars Wars Squadrons are 40% off and you can buy it for Rs. 1,499. Another new title, Watch Dogs: Legion (Review), is getting a 33% discount and is available for Rs. 2,009.

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