Warhammer: Vermintide 2 free to download and keep on Steam this weekend

If you haven’t picked up Warhammer: Vermintide 2Yet, it would make a great weekend. Fatshark’s cooperative, melee-focused take on PvE horde-slaughtering (think: Four Dead LeftThrough Monday, November 7, a free Steam download of ) will be available for both downloading and keeping.

Next, everyone with the game receives the Trail of Treachery update free of charge on Tuesday, November 8. Fatshark released a launch trailer for the update Thursday. “A Trail of Treachery” gives players a new map and a new adventure for the four-year old game.

It’s all part of the month-long promotion leading up to Nov. 30, release Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, which is that canon’s adaptation of the same concept: blaze away at the infected horde, with weapons, heroes, and settings drawn from the Warhammer 40,000 universe. A preview was available for us to try out. Darktide Last month, you can take a look at it yourself. Darktide’s beta kicks off — for pre-order customers, of course — on Nov. 17.

Warhammer: Vermintide 2The Xbox One was first released on Windows PC in February 2018. It joined the Xbox One family and PlayStation 4 later that same year. In December 2020, the Xbox Series X version was launched. It was a breakout hit, well beyond its predecessor, 2015’s Warhammer: The End Times — VermintideWe took another look Vermintide 2I discovered a game earlier in the year that is superior to Left 4 Dead and deserves a Polygon Recommends endorsement.