This year’s Steam Winter Sale has arrived, but don’t let the biggest game sale of the year stress you out when you’re already frazzled enough by the rest of your holiday shopping. We’ve picked through the mountains of games on Steam to find the deals you should actually care about. Below, we’ve highlighted Winter Sale games that are hitting all-time low prices, that just released this year, or that we just like and would recommend at any price.
For even more recommendations, we compiled a list of great games that always get Steam sale discounts, and you can check out guides to the best RPGs, best FPS games, best strategy games, and best survival games for even more inspiration. To see when the next sale is expected, check out our Steam sale calendar.
Steam winter sale: Our 2025 GOTYs
Here are the current deals on everything else we featured in our 2025 Game of the Year awards.
Steam games at their lowest price yet
Steam winter sale: $10 and under
Steam winter sale: New 2025 games
Games we scored 90% and up:
Other popular 2025 games on sale:
Steam sale prices on our last 10 GOTY winners
- 2025: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 | $29.99 (-50%) | Steam
- 2024: Balatro | $12.74 (-15%) | Steam
- 2023: Baldur’s Gate 3 | $44.99 (-25%) | Steam
- 2022: Elden Ring | $38.99 (-35%) | Steam
- 2021: Valheim | $9.99 (-50%) | Steam
- 2020: Death Stranding: Director’s Cut | $3.99 (-60%) | Steam
- 2019: Disco Elysium | $3.99 (-90%) | Steam
- 2018: Into the Breach | $4.49 (-70%) | Steam
- 2017: Divinity: Original Sin 2 | $11.24 (-75%) | Steam
- 2016: Dishonored 2 | $5.99 (-80%) | Steam
- 2015: Metal Gear Solid 5: Definitive Experience | $29.99 | Steam
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