Anno 1800 kicks off a free week to mark the arrival of skyscrapers

Anno 1800 is really good: “A compelling, if someone idiosyncratic city-builder,” we called it in our 84% review. The AI players talk too much and their barks “are often totally inane,” but that’s only an issue because the rest of the game is so good: “A rich and sumptuous city-builder, easily the grandest and deepest Anno to date.”

If that’s not sufficiently convincing, you can now blow the balance of the week, and the Labor Day weekend, playing it yourself for free. Until 4 pm local time on September 6, the base game is fully free to play on Ubisoft Connect and the Epic Store, and any progress you earn will carry over to the full game if you decide to spring for it.