XCOM, Payday 2, and eight other games are free to play on Steam this weekend

Open access begins Thursday at 10:00am Pacific

I like Steam’s Free Weekend promotions in theory but I don’t know that I’ve ever participated in one. That’ll likely change tomorrow, beginning 10:00am Pacific, when 10 games become free to download and play on Steam until Sunday at 1:00pm Pacific. Here’s the list:

• Awesomenauts
• Blade Symphony
• Company of Heroes 2
• Don’t Starve
• Grid 2
• Injustice
• Killing Floor
• Payday 2
• Trine 2
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Some great games, right? I’d be curious to try out Injustice and Grid 2 as a casual player of fighting and racing games, respectively. If Awesomenauts and XCOM are out of your comfort zone, consider giving those two a try. You may just come to dig the heck out of ’em.