Stellaris: Console Edition and Cities: Skylines are both available for Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members to play for free this weekend. If you're not an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate member yet, sign up and get your first month for just $1.

Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members can play both titles from Thursday, March 11 at 12:01 a.m. PST until Sunday, March 14 at 11:59 p.m. PST. To download on console, click on the Gold member area on the home dashboard on your Xbox One. You can find and install the games here.

Stellaris Console Edition

Developer: Paradox Interactive | Publisher: Paradox Interactive | Xbox Store: here

Featuring the same deep strategic gameplay, rich and diverse alien races and emergent storytelling, Stellaris: Console Edition puts the complexity of the galaxy at your thumbsticks. Explore a vast galaxy full of wonder! Featuring deep strategic gameplay, a rich and enormously diverse selection of alien races and emergent storytelling, Stellaris has engaging challenging gameplay that rewards interstellar exploration as you traverse, discover, interact and learn more about the multitude of species you will encounter during your travels.

Cities Skylines

Developer: Colossal Order | Publisher: Paradox Interactive | Xbox Store: here

Cities: Skylines pulls players out of the public transportation offices and grants them the power of true urban planning and development. From zoning to building, from utilities to beautification, and from taxation to outreach, players of Cities: Skylines will have total control in endless sandbox gameplay across massive maps – all with extensive built-in mod support.

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