Humble Bundle is doing it again, as they are giving away a free game to wonderful people of the internet who sign up to their mailing list. Last week they gave away Grid 2, which I’ve played a couple of hours of this week. However, this week they are giving away Tacoma, DRM-free for free.

Tacoma comes from developer, Fullbright, of Gone Home fame. A simple “Walking Simulator,” set in the mid-nineties about a woman in her early twenties coming home after a trip in Europe. Personally, I fell in love with this short little story by Fullbright when I played it last year.

Tacoma is a game I already own through an offer with Twitch Prime. However, I haven’t found the time to play this sci-fi “Walking Simulator,” which I intend to ratify this weekend. Set in the year 2088, you will explore the high-tech ship you are aboard with your crew, or so you thought. From the outside, there are human-like light ghosts similar to that of Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, but with more focus on defining each character by a specific color.

Humble Bundle is offering Tacoma DRM-free for a limited time only, so pick it up as soon as possible.

Steam is also offering a similar deal this weekend. Currently, you can download Cities: Skylines for free until Sunday afternoon. With a further deal running until Monday afternoon where you can buy the game to keep for $7.49 from the general $29.99, giving you a short demo period before buying one of the best city building games, ever.

Running in the shadow of EA and Maxis’ hugely successful series, Sims City, there were huge shoes to fill. I still to this day play a little bit of Sims City 3000 out of nostalgia, which I have both the standard and Expanded edition on disc. Yet somehow, through it all sits Paradox Interactive’s more intense city builder, Cities: Skylines.

If you are a fan of city building games or haven’t heard of one that interested you, I can’t recommend Cities: Skylines enough this weekend. You can try it free through Steam, or buy it now for 75% off.

There is also one more game that Steam is offering a free weekend with, XCOM 2. 2K’s hugely successful turn-based strategy of the long-running XCOM series. XCOM 2 is also the sequel to the not so popular, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, which was a third-person shooter take on the series set in a beautiful 1950’s Americana conspiracy as the FBI, CIA, and other agencies (XCOM) aim to protect the president and the United States.

Now under alien rule, you must command your team to send those little green ba– I mean, “friends of E.T” back to where they came from. You ignite the global stampede to take back human control of the Earth. Admittedly, when I tried to send Crypto and Pox back to Furon I was repeatedly unsuccessful with my attempts, can you do what I failed to?

Once again, Steam is offering XCOM 2 to play for free until Monday with a 75% discount until the same time. You can, once again, try before you buy or pick up the game for a very nice price and keep it.

As I also said in an article yesterday, you can pick up Oxenfree from the Epic Games store until April 4th. There are a large number of deals this weekend across a lot of storefronts, and I’m sure you’ll find something you’ll enjoy, no matter what games you play.

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Keiran Mcewen is a proficient musician, writer, and games journalist. With almost twenty years of gaming behind him, he holds an encyclopedia-like knowledge of over games, tv, music, and movies.

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