Squad is a very large-scale multiplayer shooter game that’s currently in Steam’s Early Access program. It aims to simulate realistic modern warfare in which both sides have fairly large sides and you need to be constantly vigilanet (with respawning obviously helping to make it seem like both armies are larger than they really are). The game is a spiritual successor to a widely-loved mod for Battlefield 2, Project Reality, and the indie studio behind it grew from the Project Reality team.

Now the game is going to have its first ever free weekend in a bid to attract the players numbers needed to make such large-scale battles work, because you can’t have a fight with 100 players if not that many people are around to join games after all. The game will remain like this until Sunday, November 13th at 1pm Pacific Time, or 9pm UK time. The game is also currently on sale at half its usual selling price and that will last even longer – until Monday 10am Pacific or 5pm UK time.

If you’re not familiar with Squad already, it features vehicle-based combat, combined arms gameplay, large-scale battle environments, voice audio proximity for talking and radio chatter and even base building so you can set up camp. If that sounds like something you could get into, check out Squad’s Steam page to try it out. Then if you like it, take advantage of the £14.99 UK or $19.99 US price to keep it for good.