The Epic Store has partnered with game publisher Kalypso Media to give anyone a free copy of construction and management simulation game, aka ‘dictator sim’ Tropico 5 (PC version), from December 23 through to December 24, as part of the store’s daily Christmas holiday giveaway event.

The Tropico 5 Giveaway

The game, a very nice gift otherwise sold $20, can be downloaded for Windows directly from the new Epic store at https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/tropico-5/home, starting December 23 through to December 24. The game requires a Dual Core CPU (2.2+ GHz Dual Core CPU or better), as well as 2 GB RAM or higher, and from 10 GB disk space. The free version is available in English, French, Italian,German, Spanish, Russian.

About Tropico 5

Tropico 5 is a construction and management simulation game. Return to the remote island nation of Tropico in the next installment of the critically acclaimed and hugely popular ‘dictator sim’ series. Expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing an all-new set of challenges, including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, exploration and for the first time in Tropico history – cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER for up to 4 players.

About Epic Store

Epic’s new game store was recently created to offer an alternative to market leader, Steam, essentially by providing a larger cut of sale revenues to game developers and publishers, and by promising to make cross-platform play a lot easier to implement.

More details can be found directly at Epic’s store: epicgames.com/store