Endless Legend, a great 2014 strategy game, is free on Steam for one week

It’s time to do a bit of casual Friday colonizing (virtually). Amplitude Studios, the Parisian game studio known for strategy games, is giving away its acclaimed game Endless Legend for free on Steam. Starting on Thursday and running until May 23, interested players can download the entire game for free on Steam.

The deal is an absolute steal. Usually, the game costs $29.99 at full price. Now all you have to do is go to the Steam page to get it for free. Just proceed as if you were buying any other game on the platform. The Steam version is available to play on Windows PC and Mac OS.

Endless Legend is a top-down 4X game (explore, expand, exploit, exterminate) in which players defeat opponents by harvesting resources and building military units and additional support buildings. The game is complicated and a bit imbalanced — and intentionally so. The developers created the game so that each play-through would have variation. Each race’s basic unit has several stats and special powers that makes them unique, so that players wouldn’t face units with identical stats to their own.

Amplitude Studios originally published the game to Steam in 2014. At the time, Endless Legend helped bring a new layer of complexity to the turn-based strategy genre. So if you want to have a try at long-beloved strategy game, now is your chance.