Sega Is Letting You Rent Some of Its PC Games

Game rental stores are pretty much gone, but renting downloadable games might be their replacement: Sega will soon let you download some of its PC games for short periods of time.

Today, the company announced a partnership with GameSessions, a service that lets you try out or rent PC games before you buy them. Its games will have free trials, which give players anywhere from 120 to 240 minutes to play the games. Then, during that free trial, you can also elect to rent the game for a certain period of time.

Currently, the rental option includes paying a few dollars to gain access to the game for a day. After your free trial or rental is over, you'll have the option to purchase the game, which will immediately put it in your Steam library and transfer your save over.

Sega games that are currently supported include Company of Heroes 2, Football Manager 2015, and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine.

This new partnership isn't necessarily targeting American audiences. In the press release, Sega stated that GameSessions will let it expand into Mexico and Brazil and cater to PC audiences in those places.

Currently, GameFly is the other main game rental service, although that company focuses on physical and streaming games, rather than downloadable rentals. There are few services that rent games via full download--other services, like GameFly or PlayStation Now, provide players the option to stream games for certain amounts of time.