F1 Manager 2024 is this week’s Epic Games Store free game

The team management simulation game F1 Manager 2024 is this week’s free offering in the Epic Games Store. This is also alongside a few freebies for Apex Legends: you can unlock Support Legend Loba for free, and get a free skin for her.

• F1 Manager 2024
  • Release Date: July 23, 2024
  • Game Type: Simulator, Management
  • POV: N/A
  • Party: Single player
  • DLC: Deluxe Upgrade Pack

Developed and published by Frontier Developments — the developer behind Planet Zoo and the more recent Planet Coasters — I’d expect this game to offer as in-depth management experience for Formula 1 racing as it does for those. But managing the team seems to be the entire gameplay experience offered here. It’s emphatically a management simulator, not a racing simulator. There are a lot of variables at play in management, from clashing personalities to tire brands to financial solvency, and you can try your hand at designing logos and tuning cars, but there’s no actual racing on the part of the player. You can watch the races, but it’s not like the Madden experience where you do the management of your team and then actually play out the football games.

If you’re a huge fan of F1, this will probably be a very entertaining pickup for you. In fact, this free offering already appears to be making the rounds on racing-centric social media, and racing fans seem super excited about it. However, if you don’t know that actually, it’s Sir Lewis Hamilton, it likely won’t hold your attention as long as Frontier’s other offerings if you’re looking for a management sim.