Over 4 million people claimed PC Building Simulator free from the Epic Game Store in just over 24 hours.

PC Building Simulator, which normally goes for £14.99, became Epic's weekly free game at 5pm on Thursday, 7th October.

Then, just after 8pm yesterday, 8th October, Epic tweeted to say PC Building Simulator had already been claimed by over 4 million players.

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Could you preside over an 18th Century French courtroom or zip around the vast reaches of space in reality? Probably not! Handily, then, the Humble Super Simulation Bundle is here to enable you to do all those things and more for just £11.

Humble's latest collection of cheap games is all about recreating real-world experiences without having to step away from your desktop. Some of these seem a lot more enticing than others, but if you're looking to try something new then you've got some great choices here. I think the only glaring omission is House Flipper, which would have really rounded out the bundle.

Still, both spacefaring adventure Elite Dangerous and desktop tinkerer PC Building Sim are the highlights here. The timing is pretty good for the latter, as picking it up could be a much cheaper way of constructing your dream rig featuring the new Nvidia 3000 series GPUs and running Crysis at a bajillion frames per second.

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After starting out as a tech demo, PC Building Simulator went on to sell over 750,000 copies on PC. Now, in a bold and somewhat ironic move, the game is making its way to consoles, allowing Xbox One, PS4 and Switch owners experience building their very own PCs too.

The game has a story mode (because of course it does) which has you taking over your uncle Tim's workshop after he "mysteriously skips town". Building, upgrading and repairing PCs with real licensed parts is the key to keeping the shop open.

PC Building Simulator features over 1000 real world parts from manufacturers like AMD, NVIDIA and ASUS, and has a Free Build mode where you can use all of these to create your perfect PC.

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