Another month, seemingly another HUGE GAMES SALE! There was a time when online storefronts holding major discount events were a great time to fill your libraries with games you would probably never get around to playing.
To be fair, Steam’s Summer Sale is one of the big two events of the year, alongside its Winter iteration but everything feels so watered down with events every month, other stores such as Epic Games Store and the like, starting their own discount periods ahead of the Steam one and, it can’t just be me that’s noticed the pattern of it being largely the same big titles on offer every single time, every few months.
It’s gotten a bit like those stores that sell sofas, where every few weeks there is a sale, so why would you ever pay full price for the same thing? You can only be tempted by Cyberpunk 2077 so many times, and with lots of good deals constantly available, do sales even have a place anymore?
Take Grounded for example – great game, worthy of anyone’s time. It’s currently on sale for 50% off as part of a midweek deal, before the sale even starts. It’s not going to get any cheaper later today. Same with Horizon Forbidden West – that’s down 40% on a midweek deal.
Rinse, repeat
The pattern very much now is that the same blockbuster games will get the same heavy discount, newer games may get around 10% off, and some of those obscure indie titles that you had your eye on, that were cheap anyway, may get half price.
Will games like Civ VII see their first discounts this sale? I would be amazed, even though it has Mostly Negative Steam reviews currently. One game that is confirmed as getting a deeper discount than expected is Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, which has just got its huge 1.5 patch, so that’s definitely worth a pickup if you haven’t got it already. The base edition will be cut by 30% with the Enhanced Edition seeing a 15% drop from RRP.
We will have a deeper delve into what’s on offer tomorrow when the dust has settled.
Published: Jun 26, 2025 05:53 am