Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is free to play this weekend

Steam, with its trademark combination of devious and generous, is giving us the weekend to play Sid Meyer's game Civilization: Beyond Earth. The free trial ends Sunday afternoon, so if you want to check the game out, you had better act fast.

Civilization: Beyond Earth is one of the most highly-rated games of the year, with glowing reviews across the board. It is also the most recent in a long line of highly-respected games, the Civilization series has a long history of providing deep, strategy-rich civilization builder/simulators.

Beyond Earth takes your civilization into outer space - if you can get that far, of course!

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