Next week’s free Epic Games Store title has been revealed

Cities Skylines has been confirmed as next week’s free Epic Games Store title.

The city-building game will be available as a free download from Epic’s PC marketplace from March 10-17.

Cities Skylines will replace Black Widow: Recharged, Centipede: Recharged and the Dauntless Epic Slayer Kit, which are currently free to download until March 10.

The Epic Games Store gave away 89 free titles last year (down from 103 in 2020), with a combined worth of $2,120.

According to Epic, users claimed over 765 million free games in 2021. 76 free games broke their peak concurrent user records on PC, with an average of 13 times their all-time records, it claimed in January.

The Epic Game Store’s user base reached 194 million last year, up from 160 million a year earlier, the company said.

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