Victoria 3 is playable for free this weekend, and on a 70% discount until Thursday

What are your plans for this weekend? Pint in the sunshine? Booking a summer holiday? Simulating the effects of the industrial revolution on the global economy of the nineteenth century? If it's the latter, that's tremendously specific. But I have good tidings for you anyway, as Paradox's grand strategy Victoria 3 is free to play until Monday.

Victoria 3 does for macroeconomics what Crusader Kings 3 did for dynastic fratricide. It's an enormously intricate global simulation where you take...