Weekend PC download deals: Free Payday 2 and Red Faction Guerrilla weekends

Now that everybody's coming down from the PAX East high, PC gaming retailers are offering some of their best deals to get everyone jumping back on their machines. Steam, in particular, is bringing out even more of the big guns by offering the entire Ubisoft library for sale. Not only that, but they've got free weekends for Payday 2, Red Faction Guerrilla, and the X franchise. Of course, not everyone is sitting back and letting Steam take the weekend, as Green Man Gaming is offering up the Borderlands franchise, Amazon is offering up Grand Theft Auto, and GamersGate has the best of Paradox Interactive. All this and more below!

Here's our selection of this weekend's PC deals:

Amazon

• Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition [Steam] - $6.00 (80% off)
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas [Steam] - $3.00 (80% off)
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City [Steam] - $2.00 (80% off)
• Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City [Steam] - $4.00 (80% off)
• Grand Theft Auto III [Steam] - $2.00 (80% off)
• The Typing of the Dead: Overkill [Steam] - $4.99 (75% off)
• Child of Light [UPlay] - $5.09 (66% off)

Bundle Stars

Pay $4.99 for F1 Race Stars and its DLC packs. These activate on Steam.

Or pay $4.99 for Enemy Front, Space Rangers HD: A War Apart, Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar, 10 Years After, Reprisal Universe, Samudai, Boid, Blitzkrieg Anthology, Blitzkrieg 2 Anthology, and Redline. These activate on Steam.

Or Pay $2.99 for Crimsonland, Violett, Frederic: Resurrection of Music, Frederic: Evil Strikes Back, War in a Box: Paper Tanks, Urja, Antisquad, Hero of the Kingdom, inMomentum, and The Blue Flamingo. These activate on Steam.

• The Vanishing of Ethan Carter [Steam] - $11.99 (40% off)
• Painkiller Complete Pack [Steam] - $17.49 (75% off)
• Alan Wake Collector's Edition [Steam] - $8.75 (75% off)

Direct2Drive

• Train Simulator 2015 [Steam] - $7.49 (75% off)
• All Train Simulator 2015 DLC is also on sale here.

GamersGate

• Endless Legend [Steam] - $20.99 (40% off) (Emperor Pack also on sale here.)
• Alien Isolation [Steam] - $17.00 (66% off)
• Knights of Pen & Paper +1 Edition [Steam] - $5.00 (50% off)
• Leviathan: Warships [Steam] - $2.50 (75% off)
• Other games in GamersGate's Paradox Spring Week sale, including Sword of the Stars games and King Arthur games, can be found here.
• Towers of Altrac: Epic Defense Battles - $4.00 (60% off)
• Anomaly 2 [Steam] - $3.75 (75% off)
• Anomaly Defenders [Steam] - $2.50 (75% off)
• Other games in GamersGate's Anomaly sale can be found here.

GameStop

• Battlefield 4 [Origin] - $7.99 (60% off)
• Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare [Origin] - $11.99 (60% off)
• FIFA 15 [Origin] - $29.99 (50% off)
• Other games in GameStop's EA sale, including Mass Effect Trilogy and SimCity Complete Edition, can be found here.

Get Games

• The Crew [UPlay] - $40.19 (33% off)
• Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed [Steam] - $4.99 (75% off) (4-pack also on sale)
• Trials Fusion [UPlay] - $9.99 (50% off)
• Other games in Get Games' Racing Weekend sale, including Grid games and Trials games, can be found here.
• Anno 2070 Complete Edition [UPlay] - $12.49 (75% off) (Other Anno games also on sale here.)
• Assassin's Creed Rogue [UPlay] - $39.99 (20% off)
• Mortal Kombat X [Steam] (Pre-order) - $50.99 (15% off)
• Batman: Arkham Knight [Steam] (Pre-order) - $47.99 (20% off)

GOG.com

• SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition - $7.99 (60% off)
• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Planetary Pack - $2.39 (60% off)
• Populous - $2.39 (60% off)
• Other games in GOG.com's EA Sale, including Ultima and Wing Commander games, can be found here.
• Skulls of the Shogun: Bone-A-Fide Edition - $4.49 (50% off)
• Lichdom: Battlemage - $15.99 (60% off)

Green Man Gaming

Use the code JBTBG5-7GVTE8-W2YXRV to get 20% off your purchase. Some exclusions apply.

• Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel [Steam] - $29.99 (50% off)
• Borderlands 2 GOTY Edition - $9.99 (75% off)
• Other games in Green Man Gaming's Borderlands sale can be found here.
• Starbound [Steam Early Access] - $12.74 (15% off)
• TRI: Of Friendship and Madness [Steam] - $7.47 (50% off)
• Other games in Green Man Gaming's Best of EGX Rezzed sale, including Secrets of Raetikon and Cloudbuilt, can be found here.
• The Banner Saga [Steam] - $9.99 (50% off)
• Planetary Annihilation [Steam] - $10.19 (66% off)
• A Bird Story [Steam] - $2.99 (40% off)
• Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition [Steam] - $7.49 (75% off)
• Just Cause Pack [Steam] - $5.49 (75% off)
• Dustforce DX [Steam] - $1.99 (80% off)

Humble Bundle

• Alien Isolation [Steam] - $16.99 (66% off)
• Kerbal Space Program [Steam Early Access] - $17.99 (40% off)
• Red Faction Armageddon [Steam] - $4.99 (75% off)
• The Swapper [Steam] - $2.99 (80% off)
• Strike Suit Zero [Steam] - $4.99 (75% off)
• Check out the full list of games on sale this week on the Humble Store here.

Origin

• Syndicate - FREE!
• Battlefield 4 - $9.99 (50% off)
• Need for Speed Rivals: Complete Edition - $9.99 (50% off)
• Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare - $14.99 (50% off)
• Crysis Trilogy - $24.99 (50% off)
• Mass Effect Trilogy - $14.99 (50% off)
• SimCity: Complete Edition - $19.99 (50% off)
• Spore - $9.99 (50% off)
• Dead Space 3 - $9.99 (50% off)

Steam

As well as regular discounts, Steam has a couple of additional weekend deals.

• South Park: The Stick of Truth - $13.59 (66% off)
• Watch Dogs - $19.99 (50% off)
• Far Cry 4 - $35.99 (40% off)
• The Crew - $35.99 (40% off)
• Assassin's Creed Unity - $35.99 (40% off)
• Ubisoft Prime Package - $69.99 (65% off)
• Check out the full list of games on Steam's Ubisoft Weekend sale here.
• Payday 2 - $5.99 (80% off) (FREE WEEKEND through 3/15 at 1PM PDT.)
• Red Faction Guerrilla - $3.99 (80% off) (FREE WEEKEND through 3/15 at 1PM PDT.)
• The full X catalog is on sale this weekend and all are free to play this weekend until 3/15 at 1PM PDT. Find the full list of games here.
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - $7.49 (50% off)
• Shantae: Risky's Revenge Director's Cut - $2.49 (75% off)
• Trine 2: Complete Story - $2.99 (85% off)
• Tying of the Dead: Overkill - $4.99 (75% off)
• BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend - $20.09 (33% off)
• TRI: Of Friendship and Madness - $7.49 (50% off)
• Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut - $2.49 (90% off)

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?