# Steam: Free Payday and free game weekend

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-free-payday-and-free-game-weekend/701570>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [October 17, 2014, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-free-payday-and-free-game-weekend/701570 "2014-10-17T05:56:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-free-payday-and-free-game-weekend/701570/1 "2014-10-17T05:56:33Z")

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For today only (at least for the next few hours) Payday: The Heist is free on Steam. You don’t need to download it. Simply clicking on “Install” will add it to your Steam library and you can then download at your leisure.

Steam is also holding a free weekend, with 10 games you can install and play for free over the weekend:

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

The games are also discounted over the weekend.