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Steam Winter Sale Kicks Off With Some Great Deals

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Steam has launched its Winter Sale 2023, which runs from December 21st to January 4th, offering some impressive deals on popular games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Diablo 4, Hoghwarts Legacy, Alan Wake 2, Assassin's Creed Mirage and others.

Although it does not offer free games, like it is the case with Epic Games Store Holiday Sale or GOG's Winter Sale, Steam might have the cheapest price on some games that you might have missed. There are plenty of titles on the list with discounts from 30, up to 75 percent, and it might be the perfect time to get some games that you might have missed.




Steam was also keen to announce the finalist for this year's Steam Awards, which you can vote for on the Steam Awards Page. There are several categories and you can cast your vote for each one.



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I might pick up trine 5, noita, and stardew valley.
 
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I dont see what is so great about these deals, these are the same deals we have been getting now for many past sales.

digital games man, soon there wont be discounts at all
 
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Are these overlooked? No clue, but these are games that I don't see enough people play, so go do that
 
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I Can't find Alan Wake 2 in the Steaqm Game store.
I think it is still EPIC exclusivity game.
 
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I Can't find Alan Wake 2 in the Steaqm Game store.
I think it is still EPIC exclusivity game.
It's an Epic exclusive game and will probably stay that way for a while. At least a year. But it's on sale at Epic for a pretty good price ($26 US).
 
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F1 2023 has a nice discount.
 

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I was hoping there would be a big discount for Cities Skylines 2 but only 5 bucks off. Supposedly the game has improved but is still missing a lot of content and the economy is still mostly broken.
 
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It's an Epic exclusive game and will probably stay that way for a while. At least a year. But it's on sale at Epic for a pretty good price ($26 US).

-Alan Wake 2 will be Epic exclusive forever. The game was published by Epic, it's not a standard exclusivity agreement, and so they're entitled to keep it available on their store only forever.

I'll just skip it in that case, as much as I'd like to play it. I'll pick up Quantum Break and Control instead in Steam.
 
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i just purchased the calisto protocol, nier automata, ghostwire tokyo, age of empires 4 and aliens dark descent
 
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i just purchased the calisto protocol, nier automata, ghostwire tokyo, age of empires 4 and aliens dark descent
Nier automata huh... prepare to have a mental breakdown over some fictional robots with a heavy dose of existentialism sprinkled in. It's one of those games that'll change you forever, well at least it did in my case.
 
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