Co-op rat-smasher Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is free to play this weekend on Steam

Developer Fatshark's excellent four-player co-operative rat-smasher Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is currently free to play on Steam, and will remain so until Monday, September 3rd.

Vermintide 2, for the uninitiated, plays out a little like Valve's classic Left 4 Dead series, albeit with particularly brutal combat, and a bunch of horrifyingly malevolent rat people to maim instead of zombies.

In Vermintide, teams of four players - choosing from one of five distinct heroes, each offering three possible "career" classes - must work together in a relentless assault of sword plunges, axe swings, whistling arrows, magic, and bullets, in order to fend off the Skaven hordes and live to see another day.

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