The biggest spending event on the PC calendar is back. The Steam Summer Sale 2026 went live on June 25 at 10am Pacific and runs all the way through July 9, slashing prices across tens of thousands of games and handing every backlog on the platform a fresh excuse to grow even larger.
How deep do the discounts go?
Average discounts sit at roughly 45 percent this cycle, with the most common cuts landing at 50, 57 and 75 percent off. Older catalogue titles dip as low as 90 percent, so the deepest bargains are, as ever, found a few years back in the library rather than on this spring’s headliners.
Crucially, there are no rotating daily or flash deals. Every price is locked in for the full two-week run, so there is zero pressure to buy on day one — you can wishlist, deliberate, wait for a paycheck and still grab the same discount on July 8.
The headline deals
Several of the past year’s biggest releases are making meaningful price drops. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 are both seeing reductions north of 40 percent, while Dead Space slips under $10. This summer also brings the first real discounts for several 2026 releases, including the Gothic 1 Remake, Resident Evil Requiem and Crimson Desert — usually a sign a game has settled in for the long haul.
Do not forget the hardware
The timing is no accident. With Valve’s living-room push gathering pace, the Summer Sale doubles as the perfect moment to stock a Steam Deck with cheap games — and Steam’s Deck Verified filters make it easy to sort the deals down to titles that play perfectly on handheld. Whether you are filling a Deck or just feeding a desktop backlog, the rule is the same: wishlist first, then pounce before July 9.
