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Valve announces all discount promotions until mid-2025

Valve runs a number of seasonal sales every year, allowing customers to get their hands on games at a reduced price. Now there is new information about the schedule for 2025. Gamers can look forward to a truly gigantic number of sales.

A whole year full of discounts

In a News Post On Steam, Valve has revealed the dates for all promotions and sales until July 2025. A total of 14 different events are listed for the first seven months of the year. If you count the outstanding Dates for this year Add to that, and you get a whopping 25 promotions on 214 out of 365 days. In principle, these events are almost the norm on Steam. Tip: If you want to check whether a reduced game during a sale is really a good deal, you can check the price history for each title on SteamDB But often a little patience is required. The site can be a little slow.

All dates on Steam until July 2025:

  • Arcade Fighting Games Festival: July 15-22, 2024
  • Tower Defense Games Festival: July 29 – August 5, 2024
  • Rhythm Games Festival: August 19 – 26, 2024
  • Space Exploration Festival: 2 – 9 September 2024
  • Festival of Transport: 16 – 23 September 2024
  • Festival of turn-based role-playing games: October 30 – 7, 2024
  • Steam Next Fest – October Edition: October 14-21, 2024
  • Halloween Sale: October 28 – November 4, 2024
  • Cooking Games Festival: 11 – 18 November 2024
  • Big autumn discount campaign: November 27 – December 4, 2024
  • Big winter discount campaign: December 19, 2024 – January 2, 2025
  • Real-time strategy games festival: 20 – 27 January 2025
  • Idle Games Festival: February 3rd – 10th, 2025
  • Local Multiplayer Festival: February 10-17, 2025
  • Steam Next Fest – February Edition: February 24 – March 3, 2025
  • Visual Novel Festival: March 3 – 10, 2025
  • Big spring discount campaign: 13 – 20 March 2025
  • Festival of Urban Development and Settlement Simulations: 24 – 31 March 2025
  • Sokoban Festival: April 21 – 28, 2025
  • Festival of War Games: April 28 – May 5, 2025
  • Creature Collector Festival: May 12-19, 2025
  • Festival of Zombies and Vampires: May 26 – June 2, 2025
  • Steam Next Fest – June Edition: June 9-16, 2025
  • Fishing Games Festival: 16 – 23 June 2025
  • Big summer discount campaign: June 26 – July 10, 2025

 

Players will certainly be happy about it nonetheless. Especially during the big seasonal discount campaigns, there are big titles for little money. However, the question remains whether or when you should buy a game at the normal price. What do you think of the countless discount campaigns? Is Steam doing everything right? Or do you think Valve is exaggerating?