This weekend you can play Squad for free on Steam, and on Xbox both The Division 2 and PGA TOUR 2K25 are open, even without Game Pass. Squad is free until Monday, 28 September, at 17:00 UTC, which is 10:00 in Los Angeles and 18:00 in London. Below, for each game: what is open, until when, and whether you need a subscription.
Squad on Steam: the full game until 28 September
Squad is a 100-player tactical shooter, 50 against 50, with vehicles, base building and proximity voice chat inside your squad. You will not win it alone: it is built around teamwork. The whole game is open for the weekend, not a trial slice. Buy it before the event ends and you will not need to download anything again. Offworld has not said anything specific about progress carrying over.
- Price: 50% off during the event, $19.99 instead of $39.99.
- Reviews: 84% positive out of 83,818, and 78% over the last 30 days.
- Players: 15,703 were in the game on the afternoon of 25 September, according to Steam, so servers will not be empty.
- Hardware: at minimum a GTX 1060 6 GB or RX 580 6 GB, Core i5-8400 or Ryzen 5 3600, 8 GB of RAM and 65 GB of storage. The game has already moved to Unreal Engine 5.
Xbox: two games for everyone, two with Game Pass only
Free Play Days run from Thursday, 24 September, to Sunday, 27 September. Microsoft has opened The Division 2 and PGA TOUR 2K25 to every Xbox owner, no subscription needed. The Escapists 2 and Young Suns are for Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and Essential members only, and Young Suns also runs on PC. Microsoft does not give an exact end time.
| Game | Where | Subscription | Until |
|---|---|---|---|
| Squad | Steam | not needed | 28.09, 17:00 UTC |
| The Division 2 | Xbox | not needed | 27.09 |
| PGA TOUR 2K25 | Xbox | not needed | 27.09 |
| The Escapists 2 | Xbox | Game Pass | 27.09 |
| Young Suns | Xbox and PC | Game Pass | 27.09 |
On the Epic Games Store, Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles and Mechabellum are free to keep until 1 October, 15:00 UTC. Every past and upcoming Epic giveaway is collected in our reference list.
Sources
Squad on Steam: free access window, price, reviews. Player count from the Steam Web API on 25.09.2026. Xbox Wire: Free Play Days, 24.09.2026. Epic Games Store offers from the official giveaway feed. Screenshots from the official Steam galleries.
