Far Cry 6 Free Weekend Arrives Thursday With Stranger Things Crossover

Far Cry 6 is offering a free weekend for gamers from Thursday, March 24th to Monday, March 28th, allowing new players to access the game for free on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S / X and Xbox One, over the weekend. This will include the new Stranger Things crossover mission – inspired by the popular Netflix series of the same name – assuming you have completed the necessary missions to access it. Players who do not have a copy of the game can also purchase the game and the Season Pass at discounted prices, Ubisoft announced.
Players can pre-download Far Cry 6 on PC, PS4 and PS5, giving them access to the full game later on Thursday – including all free downloadable content released so far, and The Vanishing, an upcoming Stranger Things crossover mission announced by the publisher.
Ubisoft also shared a graph showing the release time for different regions. The Far Cry 6 free weekend will be available to play in India from Thursday, March 24 at 23:30 IST / 11:00 PT on Ubisoft Connect and the Epic Games Store, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series S / X . The free weekend ends on Monday, March 28 at 23:30 IST / 11:00 PT, Ubisoft has revealed.
Tell your friends – the first Far Cry 6 Free Weekend is March 24-27 and it includes the brand new Stranger Things Crossover Mission!
Pre-download is now available. Please check this map to see when the Free Weekend starts in your time zone. # FarCry6 pic.twitter.com/W9DdPIoOdY
– Far Cry 6 (@FarCrygame) 22 March 2022
As mentioned earlier, gamers will also have access to The Vanishing, a new crossover mission featuring Netflix’s Stranger Things that adds stealth horror survival game to Far Cry 6. Players signing up for the game on Thursday will enter a ‘twisted’ version of Yara, which according to Ubisoft was inspired by the upside, complete with a hidden bunker and an abandoned laboratory. As Yarans begins to disappear, Dani must begin searching for Chorizo and locating the island’s inhabitants who have been driven away.
Once the Far Cry 6 free weekend ends, players who want to keep playing the popular title can buy the game for PC at a 50 percent discount at the Ubisoft Store and the Epic Games Store (Standard, Gold, Deluxe editions) as part of Spring sale. Players can pick up the Season Pass at a 35 percent discount at the Epic Games Store and use 35 percent and 25 percent discounts on the Vase: Insanity DLC and the Pagan: Control DLC, respectively. Google Stadium users can also purchase the game at a 50 percent discount on the Standard, Gold and Ultimate editions and a 35 percent discount on the Season Pass, from March 24 to March 31.
Meanwhile, PS4 and PS5 owners can pick up the standard and Gold editions of the game at a 50 percent discount, along with a 35 percent discount on the Season Pass as part of the PlayStation Store’s Deal of the Week from March 23 – 30 March. From March 24 to March 28, Xbox One and Xbox Series S / X players can purchase all editions of the game at a 50 percent discount on the Xbox Store, along with a 35 percent discount on the Season Pass, according to Ubisoft.
Far Cry 6’s free weekend begins Thursday night in India, and ends Monday night.