You can play XCOM 2 for free until tomorrow afternoon

If you're short on games to play today, or just fancy something new, then here's an idea: try out XCOM 2 for free. The famously tough, tactical alien murder sim remains one of the best strategy games on PC, and developer Firaxis has made it free-to-play until tomorrow at 1pm PT/4pm ET, with 67% off for anybody that wants to carry on playing.

There are a million reasons why you should play it if you haven't already: Tom gave it a whopping 94% in his review, and we later named it the best strategy game from 2016. It's also spawned War of the Chosen, a fantastic, vast expansion with some of the best villains in PC gaming.

While the 67% discount—to $19.79/£11.54—isn't an all-time low price, it's equal with the cheapest it's ever been on Steam, and well worth it for the time you'll sink into it. If you've ever thought about playing it but never got round to it and you have a few hours free this evening, then give it a whirl. You won't regret it.

Try it out on Steam—the 67% discount is valid until May 10.

Samuel is a freelance journalist and editor who first wrote for PC Gamer nearly a decade ago. Since then he's had stints as a VR specialist, mouse reviewer, and previewer of promising indie games, and is now regularly writing about Fortnite. What he loves most is longer form, interview-led reporting, whether that's Ken Levine on the one phone call that saved his studio, Tim Schafer on a milkman joke that inspired Psychonauts' best level, or historians on what Anno 1800 gets wrong about colonialism. He's based in London.