The annual Steam Summer Sale is live!

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Valve has opened the floodgates on the Steam Summer Sale, an annual event offering substantial savings across a cornucopia of genres. If you’re interested in playing it, odds are, it’s probably on sale.

If you’ve shopped a Steam Sale in recent memory, you’re probably already aware of the fact that Valve has abandoned its short-term deals. Instead, everything that’s discounted is available at the lowest price from day one so you can buy with confidence.

Highlights from this year’s sale include:

  • Shadow of Mordor for 80% off (yours for just $4)
  • Abzu at $5.99 (70% off the original list price of $19.99)
  • Dishonored 2 is $20 (50% off)
  • Rocket League for 40% off (regularly $19.99 but slashed to $11.99)
  • This War of Mine at an 80% discount (now just $3.99)
  • Hitman: The Complete First Season is $24 (66% off)
  • Serious Sam 3: BFE for just $4 (90% off)
  • Wolfenstein: The New Order is selling for $10 (50% off)
  • Rust for $9.99 (normally $19.99)
  • Transistor is a mere $3 (85% off)
  • Torment: Tides of Numenera at $22.50 (50% off)
  • 7 Ways to Die at 60 percent off (yours for $9.99)

If you’re reading this shortly after the sale’s launch and are having trouble connecting to Steam, you aren’t alone. With so many people flooding the store to check out what’s on sale, it may be a few hours before you can expect a reliable connection (I’ve timed out multiple times while writing this story).

The Steam Summer Sale 2017 runs through July 5.

Are there any games you’re eyeballing for purchase?

Feel free to share in the comments section below!

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Bethesda Softworks Classics Superbundle will do it for me. I only have 1 of these (The Elder Scrolls IV) in my library already. I'm looking forward to playing the Wolfenstein games.


Arx Fatalis
Commander Keen
Wolfenstein 3D
QUAKE Collection
Heretic + Hexen Collection
Fallout 3
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition Deluxe
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth
Fallout: New Vegas
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
BRINK
Hunted: The Demon’s Forge™
RAGE
Dishonored
Doom 3: BFG Edition
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Fallout Classic Collection
The Evil Within
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
 
If anyone's interested, I bought the following from my wishlist:

Portal 2 (1.99 USD), 90% off
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (2.99 USD), 85% off
Don't Starve (3.74 USD), 75% off
 
Tried to buy a game yesterday and no cigar. Servers were slammed I'm guessing.
 
Picked up:

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 - $1.99 (worth it to me despite mixed reviews)
Mirror's Edge - $4.99
Firewatch - $8.99
Mafia 2 - $7.50

Thanks to this article, I also just bought This War of Mine and Serious Sam 3: BFE. Steam store is running smoothly today.
 
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If anyone's interested, I bought the following from my wishlist:

Portal 2 (1.99 USD), 90% off
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (2.99 USD), 85% off
Don't Starve (3.74 USD), 75% off
Thanks for the tip! The Vanishing of Ethan Carter looks cool and so I just bought it- should be a nice break in between all the shooters I play.
 
The sale prices spurred me to finally purchase a couple of games from my wishlist, and I ended up spending waaaay too many hours playing one of them already: Windward. It has a nice procedural campaign that scales up as you progress. I just wish there were a way to speed up the game...
I also bought Runers, which lacks polish but is a fun roguelike.
 
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