Gamers rejoice! Valve has officially kicked off its Steam Winter Sale, running from December 18, 2025, to January 5, 2026. The company humorously noted that the sale spans two years, beginning in one calendar year and ending in the next. The event aims to combine massive discounts with some interactive features like completing your personalized Discovery Queue to earn three digital stickers, and checking the Steam Points Shop for new Winter Sale items. The Winter Sale includes a wide range of games, from recent indie releases to major studio titles, and Valve has released an event trailer showcasing some of the featured picks.

Additionally, during the promotional period, community voting for the 2025 Steam Awards is also open, with winners to be announced on January 3 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. So make sure to get your vote in so you make your voice heard. The storefront lists thousands of offers organized by genre, tag, release date, and developer, making it easier to find deals that match your interests. Usually, the holiday season is a good time for great offers, and Valve is making sure that gamers get some additional value at the end of the year. Waiting for a Steam Winter Sale is also a good opportunity for gamers to grab the title they have been waiting to play for a long time.

Valve has officially opened the nomination process for the Steam Awards 2025. The annual game awards ceremony will be held on January 3, 2026, but nominations will close on December 1, after which voting will commence to decide the winner. As with previous years, there are several categories to nominate games in, totaling 11 for this year: Game of the Year, VR Game of the Year, Labor of Love, Best Game on Steam Deck, Better with Friends, Outstanding Visual Style, Most Innovative Gameplay, Best Game You Suck At, Best Stoundtrack, Outstanding Story-Rich Game, and Sit Back and Relax.

The popular nominees for Game of the Year include some repeat visitors from The Game Awards, like Split Fiction and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, but there are also some interesting nominees, like Peak and RV There Yet? Dispatch also makes repeat appearances in the frequent nominees list, as do F1 26 and Marvel Rivals. Although there are some similarities between the recently revealed list of nominees for The Game Awards, the popular nominees featured on the Steam Awards page appear to be quite different to those that appeared in the other yearly game show.

What is your favorite kind of game? They're on sale. Second favorite? Those too. Mid? Yep. AND THOSE! The Steam Autumn Sale is on from now through December 4th at 10am PST, and it's a big one: thousands of games, of all sorts of genres and themes, are on sale. Plus, collect free stickers as you look through your Discovery Queue, and keep track of your progress on the item collection page. Oh! The Steam Autumn Sale is also the time to get your nominations in for our annual Steam Awards. Make your choices for best game in each of the 11 categories for 2024, and get those nominations in by the end of the Autumn Sale.

Oh OH! Select Steam Deck LCD units (512 GB and 64 GB) are joining the Autumn Sale where supplies remain:

• In the EU: 64 GB are 15% off
• In the U.S. and Canada: 512 GB are 25% off

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 has recently published their Best of 2020 awards which highlight the best selling, and most played games of 2020. The awards include six categories including Top Sellers, Top New Releases, Top Selling VR Games, Top Early Access Graduates, Most Played Games, and Top Controller Games. The 100 games in each list are ranked as Platinum (1st - 12th), Gold (13th - 24th), Silver (25th - 40th), and Bronze (41st - 100th) with each rank of games being randomly sorted.

Starting with the Top Sellers we have Grand Theft Auto V, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Cyberpunk 2077, Red Dead Redemption 2, DOOM Eternal, Monster Hunter: World, Dota 2, Among Us, Destiny 2, PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive all taking the top platinum rating.

The 15th Annual Steam Winter Sale is on now thru January 5th, offering big savings on thousands of titles, new seasonal items in an upgraded Points Shop, and the chance to vote for the final nominees in the 5th Annual Steam Awards.

In addition to offering massive savings on thousands of titles, the Steam Points Program is updated for the event with new seasonal items -- including animated stickers, avatars, and the Seasonal Profile -- plus additional upgrades and community awards to redeem for Steam Points. Meanwhile, Steam Chat now includes in-line chat reactions with emoticons and animated stickers.

The title reads most of this news post's content: the Steam Autumn sale is currently on, with green price tags abound around the virtual Steam store. The sale goes from today (November 22nd for our most distracted readers) through November 28th. You can also take this opportunity to participate in the Steam Awards, nominating your favorite games across 12 different categories. Help your favorite games and developers through to fame and recognition, and vote on the experiences that you yourself deem worthy.