Borderlands 4 leads five free games on Steam this weekend

Borderlands 4 is receiving a major content drop this week, and Steam players have an easy reason to try the looter-shooter without spending anything. The game is one of five PC titles free to play on Steam this weekend, giving PC players a strong selection to check out before the offers expire.

The free promotions cover a mix of shooters, racing, strategy, and medieval multiplayer combat, so there is something for nearly every kind of player. With Borderlands 4 at the top of the list, this is a particularly good weekend to see what the excitement is about.

What's free to play on Steam this weekend

Borderlands 4 is available to play for free just as the game gets a major update and new content. Sept. 10 marks the launch of Story Pack 2, FL4K and the Last Resort, alongside Loveless the Hacker, the game's newest Vault Hunter. Loveless is essentially Borderlands 4's counterpart to Borderlands 2's Zer0, bringing stealth, sniping, melee attacks, status effects, and a murderous cyberworm companion to the game.

The other four games offer a very different assortment of genres and vibes. Surviving Mars: Relaunched is a slower-paced sci-fi city builder where players establish and manage a colony on the surface of Mars, while F1 25 is a racing sim built around the Formula 1 season.

The smaller games available are Crime Boss: Rockay City, an infamous first-person crime shooter about pulling off heists and taking over a fictional Miami-inspired city, and Mordhau, a brutal medieval multiplayer game built around massive melee battles.

All of these games can be played for free on Steam through Sept. 14.