You are the chosen one. The Steam Winter sale is about to start, so grit your teeth, eat a few thousand pounds of sugar cookies, and become your own Santa Claus.
In other words, it's "haha time to buy games that I. WILL. NEVER. PLAY," as a top Reddit comment reacting to the event's new trailer says. I understand the hesitation, but dumping out the contents of your wallet directly into the ocean is, I think, unfortunately the key to being truly jolly. If you'd like, you can debate it with the Valve Corporation – though it at least had the decency to discount a number of perfect games this year.
The Steam Winter sale 2025 goes live on December 18 at 10:00AM PST / 1:00PM ET, and it'll run through January 5. While its precise discounts aren't available yet, the sale's trailer does reveal a number of great games getting their price tags snipped.
Here's a list of them:
- Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
- Dynasty Warriors: Origins
- Borderlands 4
- Dune: Awakening
- Dying Light: The Beast
- The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered
- Rematch
- Slime Rancher 2
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
- Megabonk
- Digimon Story Time Stranger
- R.E.P.O.
- Assassin's Creed Shadows
- Marvel's Spider-Man 2
- RV There Yet?
- Escape From Duckov
- Dispatch
- Deltarune
- Elden Ring Nightreign
- Hades 2
- Drive Beyond Horizons
The stunning sequel Hades 2? Flashy new superhero drama Dispatch? The lovely RPG-roguelike-multiplayer thing Nightreign? Uh oh…
"we must fund Gabe's next super yacht," says a popular YouTube comment. I'm being hypnotized... my wallet... it yearns for the ocean...
Check out our contenders for GamesRadar+ GOTY: the 25 best games of 2025 to see what's worth splurging on.
