Steam Winter Sale 2025 at a Glance
The Steam Winter Sale 2025 is live, and there are thousands of discounts flying past your screen. Instead of scrolling endlessly, it helps to focus on games that are either at their lowest price ever, were big releases this year, or are proven classics that are absolutely worth it on PC.
This roundup pulls together some of the standout deals, especially for players who want great experiences without wasting time or money. Whether you love deep role playing games, sweaty shooters, chill city builders, or intense survival titles, there is probably at least one game here that should be in your library.
One of the biggest highlights is Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, which PC Gamer crowned as its 2025 Game of the Year. It is a systems heavy RPG that leans hard into realism. This winter it is half price, making it a perfect pick if you want something meaty to dive into over the holidays.
Alongside it are many of PC Gamer's 2025 GOTY nominees and winners across different genres at healthy discounts, from narrative adventures and survival roguelikes to horror and puzzle games. The sale is also stacked with massive cuts on older hits that still run great on modern rigs.
Top Picks and Lowest Ever Prices
The most eye catching category this year is games that have dropped to their lowest Steam price so far. These are ideal if you have had them sitting on your wishlist waiting for that magic number.
- Sons of the Forest drops to a new all time low with a huge discount. It throws you onto a remote island full of cannibals and survival systems. You can tune the difficulty to your liking and even experiment with playthroughs that remove enemy threats for a more relaxed building and exploration run.
- Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 matches its GOTY status with a serious half price cut. Expect detailed medieval combat, demanding systems, and lots of freedom in how you tackle quests.
- Resident Evil 4 Remake is heavily discounted and remains one of the best action horror experiences on PC, with tight gunplay and strong performance.
- Persona 5 Royal is deeply discounted and brings a huge story driven RPG to PC with stylish combat and social simulation elements.
- Divinity Original Sin 2 sees a massive price drop and is still one of the best party based RPGs ever released on PC, especially if you enjoy co op.
- Monster Hunter Rise is near its floor price and is a great pick for co op monster hunting, especially while Monster Hunter Wilds continues to wrestle with performance issues.
- Slay the Spire and Yoku's Island Express are both absurdly cheap, offering a ton of gameplay hours for just a few dollars.
If you are on a tight budget, there is a strong under ten dollar lineup. Peak offers a co op climbing adventure that almost made PC Gamer's GOTY list. Roadwarden gives you a text driven RPG style experience with an old school feel. The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt and its complete edition are available at deep discounts, which is still one of the best entry points if you want an open world RPG that will push your PC a bit but reward you with a huge story.
For only a few dollars, Control Ultimate Edition is another standout. It mixes third person action with weird supernatural worldbuilding inside a constantly shifting government facility, and it is known for being visually striking on capable GPUs.
New 2025 Releases and GOTY Tier Games
This Steam Winter Sale is also a good chance to jump into some of 2025's big PC releases and critical darlings while they are still relatively fresh.
Final Fantasy Tactics The Ivalice Chronicles finally makes its way to PC with a remaster that respects the original while modernizing the visuals and interface. It already has a launch discount, making it a tempting pickup if you enjoy tactical battles and deep party building.
PC Gamer also highlights several 2025 games that scored ninety percent or higher. These include:
- The Alters, a story driven adventure where you manage different versions of your character in a sci fi setting.
- Escape From Tarkov, a hardcore extraction shooter that has finally made its way to Steam, bringing tense raids and punishing but rewarding gunplay.
- Monster Train 2, which builds on the original deckbuilder formula and adds more strategic depth.
Beyond that, there is a long list of notable 2025 titles on sale across almost every genre. Whatever kind of PC gamer you are, you can probably find something that fits your taste and your hardware.
- Assassin's Creed Shadows for open world stealth action fans.
- Doom The Dark Ages if you want fast paced first person combat.
- Dune Awakening for MMO and survival fans who like big sandboxes.
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and The Outer Worlds 2 if you want large scale RPG adventures.
- Hades 2 for tight, replayable action roguelike combat.
- Little Nightmares 3 and Caput Mortum for atmospheric horror experiences.
Many of these games benefit from solid PC hardware, but most are also well optimized, making them good options even if you are running more modest setups.
Discounts on a Decade of PC Game of the Year Winners
If you are new to PC gaming or just building up a library on a new rig, the sale prices on PC Gamer's Game of the Year winners from the last decade are a cheat sheet for must play titles.
Starting from 2025's Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and going back through Balatro, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Valheim, Death Stranding Director's Cut, Disco Elysium, Into the Breach, Divinity Original Sin 2, Dishonored 2, and Metal Gear Solid 5 Definitive Experience, almost every year has a steep discount attached.
This collection alone can keep you busy for years. Between deep RPGs, tactical strategy, immersive sims, and open world adventures, they also form a great way to benchmark and enjoy your PC hardware while playing some of the best designed games available.
If you feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of deals on Steam, focusing on these highlighted categories makes it easier. Grab a couple of all time low price titles from your wishlist, pick one or two 2025 releases that match your favorite genre, and maybe add a discounted GOTY classic for your backlog. You will walk away from the Winter Sale with a strong lineup and money left over for your next hardware upgrade.
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