Epic Games Store's Free Game for March 10 is One of PS Plus' Most Controversial

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As always, the freeEpic Games Store title for next Thursday was revealed when the new games rotated in on March 3. Users can now claim Black Widow: Recharged and Centipede: Recharged, which are both newer versions of classic arcade titles—sure to bring in plenty of nostalgia and general improvements as well. They’ll rotate out on Thursday, March 10, and be replaced with Cities: Skylines.

Cities: Skylines is a solid city management simulation game focused on urban planning, including elements like zoning, road placement, taxes, public services, public transportation, budget, health, employment, pollution, and more. For fans of the genre, it should be a pretty good pick up on Epic Games Store, but interestingly enough, it has a controversial history on another game service, PS Plus.

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It should be noted that Cities: Skylines wasn’t a controversial PS Plus game because of its quality or even, technically speaking, its genre, and it received good reviews at launch. But back in April 2020, a new rumor reared its head that Dark Souls Remastered andDying Light would be the free PS Plus games of May 2020. It had no substance or credibility, but fans went buck wild at the sheer potential of those games.

Then, come the announcement of the free PS Plus games of May 2020, Sony revealed the games to be Cities: Skylines andFarming Simulator 19—a far cry in terms of tone and content from what fans had been hoping for. This selection was almost universally panned, in part because the simulation genre is somewhat niche, and fans were getting TWO simulation games. But, the bigger problem lies in the fact that so much of the fanbase had expected two completely different games, and that wasn’t Sony’s fault.

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