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2024’s Steam Winter Sale has officially kicked off, and like previous events, this end-of-year promotion has a ton of discounted games on offer that’ll help grow your backlog. We’ve highlighted our picks for many of the best deals available below; we generally favored games that appeared on our various Best Of 2024 lists.
As expected, there are quite a few big discounts here, ranging from recent releases through to several other popular games. Overall, if you’re looking to grab a AAA release or a few indies for your PC or Steam Deck, you should be able to save quite a few bucks with this sale. The Steam Winter Sale runs from December 19 through January 2, 2025 at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET. In case you don’t find anything that catches your eye here, a few other sites are also holding sales events.
Anyone looking for classic games in particular will want to head to GOG, as you can get some of the best games of yesteryear for as little as $2. Meanwhile, Fanatical also has huge discounts on hundreds of PC games, including hit 2024 games like Helldivers 2 and Dragon’s Dogma 2. All orders of $15 or more include either a free game or coupon code.
If you’d also like to some help picking out a particular game, you can check out GameSpot’s Best of 2024 lists for a few pointers, like the best PC-exclusive games of the year. We also have our running lists of the best PC games and best Steam Deck games to play right now.
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