Steam: Sales Schedule 2023 – When do Summer Sale & Winter Sale start?

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The Steam gaming platform regularly launches major special offer phases, some with heavy discounts. It is now known when the 14 campaigns will run.

Here you can find all dates of the big, planned sales from Steam. If you have a game in mind but don’t want to pay full price, patience can pay off.

There will be a special strategy sale at the end of August – many strategy games are cheaper during this period. However, the Winter Sale and the Summer Sale are considered to be the biggest offer phases. You can find all dates here:

  • Mystery Festival: 20.02. – 27.02.
  • Festival of Riddles: 24.04. – 01.05.
  • Spring promotion: 16.03. – 23.03.
  • Sports festival: 15.05. – 22.05.
  • Game preview: 19.06. – 26.06.
  • Summer promotion: 29.07. – 13.07.
  • Festival of Sneak Games: 24.07. – 31.07.
  • Festival for Visual Novels: 07.08. – 14.08.
  • Strategy Festival: 28.08. – 04.09.
  • SHMUP Festival: 25.09. – 02.10.
  • Game preview: 09.10. – 16.10.
  • Steam Scream Festival: 10/26 – 02.11.
  • Autumn promotion: 21.11. – 28.11.
  • Winter promotion: 21.12. – 04.01.
  • At the time of writing, the Mystery Festival is running. The focus here is on Mystery/Detective/Social Deduction.

    Steam’s participation requirements are even quite narrow – not every game can simply participate in a sale. Check out Steam’s German sales blog post to find the exact sale your desired games could be in – via steam.com.

    There is never a guarantee of a hit. But you increase your chances of getting a bargain drastically.

    How do you do this? Do you wait for sales for games on your wish list or do you always grab them right away when you have the wherewithal to spare? Write a comment on the topic.

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