Steam’s annual winter sale is live. If you’ve been meaning to buy some games, either for yourself or as a gift for upcoming holidays, now’s the time to take a look around. There are thousands of games up for sale in the Steam Store (and you can vote for the 2020 Steam Awards while you’re there).

Steam Winter Sale began Tuesday, December 22 and will run until Tuesday, January 5 at 11:30pm IST / 10am PT. With that, here is a selection of the best deals in the Steam Winter Sale: Steam Winter. Steam’s annual winter sale is live. If you’ve been meaning to buy some games, either for yourself or as a gift for upcoming holidays, now’s the time to take a look around.

• Steam Winter Sale – Mid-December The dates for these sales may vary, of course, but this pattern has mostly been followed by Steam since 2016. Typically, each sale lasts between 1-2 weeks, with the Steam Summer and Steam Winter sales lasting the longest.
• Complete Guide to the Steam Winter Sale 2020/2021 (aka Christmas Holiday Sale)! Dates, best game deals plus the cards, badges, Steam Awards voting, Steamvill.
• Seasonal Steam Sales Steam docs. Seasonal sales are created and managed by Valve. When selecting titles to fill these front-page promotional slots, Valve tries to be as fair as possible and select titles that customers are most interested in and will result in the most happy customers. While there aren't strict rules, as a base guideline we tend to focus on the top 10-20% selling games on Steam that are.

While you’re browsing, the Epic Games store is also in the midst of its holiday sale. In addition to discounts of up to 75 percent, the sale provides endless $10 coupons — that is, you can apply one to a purchase (on “eligible games” priced at $14.99 and up), apply another to your next purchase, and so on. And the store will be giving away games for free until December 31st. As of this writing, the current freebie is Metro: 2033 Redux (usually $19.99).

Here are some of the best deals you can get from both stores. If you’re looking for more gaming discounts, we’ve rounded up the best deals of the week at Amazon, Best Buy, and other retailers right here.

Steam Winter Sale deals

Halo: The Master Chief Collection is on sale for $23.99, 40 percent off its original price of $39.99. This collection includes six classics including Halo: Reach, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2: Anniversary, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, and Halo 4.

Also discounted is Disco Elysium, a top-down roleplaying game where you play a grizzled detective. Polygon’s Laura Dale wrote that the game has “enough charm to make just about everything else on the market look boring.” The game is normally $39.99, but is down to $23.99 through January 5th.

Control Ultimate Edition is a whopping 50 percent off through January 5th. Normally $39.99, this package includes the main game and all previously released expansions, and is currently $19.99.

Below is a smattering of the other games you can get at a discount from Steam this month. Whether you’re looking for new award-winners like Hades or franchise blockbusters like Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, you should be able to find something that strikes your fancy. Remember, these sales are active through January 5th.

• Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is $15.99 (usually $19.99)
• Hades is $19.99 (usually $24.99)
• Stardew Valley is $9.99 (usually $14.99)
• Mass Effect: Andromeda Deluxe Edition and Mass Effect 3 N7 Digital Deluxe Edition are $9.89 (usually $29.99). Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect are $9.99 (usually $19.99).
• Middle-earth: Shadow of War is $9.99 (usually $49.99)
• Borderlands 3 is $19.79 (usually $59.99)
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is $23.99 (usually $59.99)
• All the Dark Souls games are on sale. Dark Souls III is $14.99 (usually $59.99)
• Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is $39.69 (usually $167.91)
• Doom Eternal is $19.79 (usually $59.99)
• The Deus Ex Collection is $10.60 (usually $88.94). Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is $4.49 (usually $29.99).

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Epic Games Store Holiday Sale

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is one of the popular games on sale in the Epic Games Store through January 7th at 11am ET. The Standard Edition is $49.79 (17 percent off), and the Gold Edition (which includes Season Pass) is $79.99 (20 percent off).

This year’s modernized remake of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 is another deal to snag. Among other changes, the title brings new visuals and updated characters to the skateboarding classics. Chad Muska’s and Rodney Mullen’s characters are now middle-aged, for example, but you can also play as younger skaters like Aori Nishimura and Tyshawn Jones.

Below are a few other games that are worth checking out before Epic’s deals expire, in addition to the freebies that will rotate through the month. If you were disappointed by Cyberpunk 2077 and would rather play a finished CD Projekt Red game, The Witcher 3 is heavily discounted this year.

• Jackbox Party Pack 7 is $22.49 (usually $29.99)
• Death Stranding is $29.99 (usually $59.99)
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition is $14.98 (usually $49.96)
• The Last Campfire is $11.99 (usually $14.99)

The end of the year is quickly approaching, and for PC gamers, that means the Steam Winter Sale is on the horizon. The Winter Sale is one of the two biggest sales of the year for Steam along with the Summer Sale, and it’s a big event for PC gamers who may have a break from school or work for the holidays. While Steam hasn’t outright confirmed the start date of the Winter Sale just yet, we do have a good idea of when it will kick off.

Specifically, SteamDB – which has gotten these things right many times in the past – says that the 2020 Steam Winter Sale will begin on December 22nd at 1PM EST/10AM PST. That, for those of you without a calendar handy, is tomorrow, so we’ve likely got just under 24 hours to go before the Steam Winter Sale kicks off.

Of course, that means you should probably avoid buying games today, because there’s a very good chance that the game you want be discounted tomorrow at this time. While not every game goes on sale during these big, annual sales like the Summer and Winter Sales, a large portion of Steam’s catalog does get discounted so it’s definitely a good idea to hold off on any purchases you want to make for a little while longer.

We can expect the Winter Sale to run for two weeks on the nose, as SteamDB says that it should wrap up on January 5th. The Steam Winter Sale is following rather hot on the heels of the Autumn Sale, which took place at the end of November, and the Halloween sale, which obviously took place at the end of October.

So, there you have it: if you were wondering when the Steam Winter Sale will begin, it looks like you can count on it beginning tomorrow. The Steam Winter Sale, of course, is just one of the end-of-the-year gaming sales happening right now, and in fact, some of Steam’s biggest competitors have already begun their own big sales.

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