Steam Winter Sale 2016 Begins Today
Prepare for Saint Gaben to make your cup runneth over.
Steam Winter Sale 2016 starts today at 12:50 PM ET/9:50 AM PT and ends on January 2 at 1:10 PM ET/10:10 AM PT. The Autumn sale was only a month ago, but the Steam Winter Sale promises, even more, savings.
The dates for Steam's Autumn and Winter sales leaked about a month ago, but we're still not sure exactly which games are going on sale on which days. This is typically the yearly sale that has the best and most bargains, though, so if you've been waiting for a price drop on a particular title, chances are it'll receive one during the Steam Winter Sale.
Once the sale begins, we'll update this article with some of the best deals available. Only three more hours to go until we get a look at the tremendous savings.
Update 1:
This isn't a Steam deal, but on Amazon there's a sale on the Steam Link ($19.99/$49.99reg), Steam Controller ($34.99/$49.99reg), and Steam Controller Wireless Receiver ($9.09/$12.99reg).
Update 2:
The Steam Winter Sale has started, but unfortunately it seems Steam is having issues with handling the increased traffic load. If Steam is not loading for you just keep checking back every five minutes or so.
Partial Featured Deals List
(Source: Reddit /r/gamedeals Steam Sale Thread)
| Title | Disc. | $USD | Platform | Cards | PCGW |
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| PAYDAY 2 | 19.99 | W/L | Yes | Yes | |
| Tom Clancy’s The Division™ | 50% | 24.99 | N/A | W | Yes |
| Assetto Corsa | 29.99 | W | No | Yes | |
| Farming Simulator 17 | 15% | 29.74 | W/M | Yes | Yes |
| Insurgency | 80% | 1.99 | W/M/L | Yes | Yes |
| Grim Dawn | 24.99 | W | Yes | Yes | |
| Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition | 60% | 7.99 | W/M/L | No | Yes |
| The Long Dark | 19.99 | W/M/L | No | Yes | |
| Invisible, Inc. | 70% | 5.99 | W/M/L | Yes | Yes |
| Master of Orion | 50% | 14.99 | W/M/L | Yes | Yes |
| Project CARS | 67% | 9.89 | W | Yes | Yes |
| Stonehearth | 20% | 19.99 | W | Yes | Yes |
| The Banner Saga 2 | 25% | 14.99 | W/M | Yes | Yes |
| Orwell | 20% | 7.99 | W/M/L | Yes | Yes |
| Clustertruck | 40% | 8.99 | W/M/L | No | Yes |
| VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action | 15% | 12.74 | W/M/L | Yes | Yes |
| Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition | 75% | 7.49 | W | No | Yes |
| Verdun | 50% | 12.49 | W/M/L | Yes | Yes |
| Zombie Army Trilogy | 80% | 8.99 | W | Yes | Yes |
| Homefront®: The Revolution | 70% | 11.99 | W | Yes | Yes |
| City Car Driving | 27% | 18.24 | W | No | Yes |
| Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons | 85% | 2.24 | W | No | Yes |
Also, a shout out to Rampancy, one of Shacknews' own. His game House of the Dying Sun is on sale for 35% off/$12.99.
Update 3:
Franchise Deals!
(Source: Reddit /r/gamedeals Steam Sale Thread)
If you haven't played DOOM, do it now.
| Title | Disc. Range |
|---|---|
| Civilization | 10-92% |
| Total War | 25-75% |
| Just Cause | 75% |
| DOOM | 40-67% |
| GRID | 75-83% |
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replyJason Faulkner posted a new article, Steam Winter Sale 2016 Begins Today
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Have my wish list all ready
8-Bit Invaders!
ASTRONEER
Batman - The Telltale Series
Beholder
BROFORCE
Call of Duty: Black Ops III
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
Call of Duty: Ghosts
Citizens of Earth
Darkest Dungeon
Dishonored 2
Disney Infinity 2.0: Gold Edition
Disney Infinity 3.0: Gold Edition
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Elite: Dangerous
Folk Tale
GOD EATER 2 Rage Burst
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
Headlander
Her Majesty's SPIFFING
LEGO MARVEL's Avengers DLC - Marvel Ant-Man Pack
LEGO MARVEL's Avengers DLC - Marvel Captain America: Civil War Character Pack
LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens
MAFIA III
March of the Living
Pinball FX2 - Bethesda Pinball
Planet Coaster
Project Highrise
Rebel Galaxy
RimWorld
Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues
SUPERHOT
Tyranny
XCOM 2 - Resistance Warrior Pack
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The steam subreddit usually has the list of games that are on sale. I think the games subreddit also has a list.
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There's no hurry to look. With the new format, every game is the exact same price for the entire 10 days of the sale. It's not like you're going to miss a flash sale.
Also, if you've got a smart phone, just get the STEAM app, and browse the store on your personal cellular data. It doesn't use that much.-
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It hasn’t been that way for atleast a year now.
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I honestly kind of miss the flash sales and other stuff that went with the Steam sales in days of yore. I mean, I totally get why they switched away from that stuff, and I get why others might like this new format more. But for me at least, the Steam sales with their flash sales and other short lived sales gave me a reason to check every day (or twice a day!) and be excited for what I might find. Now I just skim through right at the start of the sale and I'm done. Oh well.
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Ya, im pretty much the exact same way.
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No more Early Access titles for me. After the ARK developers released a paid and content complete DLC for the core game when the core PC game is nowhere near complete and still has massive performance issues(I've heard Xbox One still has these issues as well) and the debacle that is/was DayZ(where Dean Hall literally took the money and ran after Bohemia bought the IP from him), I have soured on Early Access. However, ASTRONEER is the very RARE exception for Early Access and anyone not grabbing that at $20 is missing some joyous gaming experiences! Eonix and his team ROCK! Freaking love the game! Anyone else think The Kerbal Space Program and Astroneer would make a hilarious crossover?
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Not every developer will do that. Sure its a risk. Even doublefine did it.
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not entirely true. There will be games that aren't on sale at all that will go on sale just for a couple of days. its just once they are on sale, it won't go lower during the sales period.
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Nope, it doesn't matter anymore. Prices are fixed for the entire duration of the sale. No more madness (and, consequently, the deals aren't as good anymore).
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So did I.
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Really hoping for some good deals on some VR titles. It's hard to pay full freight when I only play them for an hour or two, and then not play them again until they are updated..
Oh, and Doom. Yeah, I know. I haven't bought it yet. I don't play a lot of FPS games anymore, so I'm waiting for a good sale for that as well.-
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I got my copy of DOOM through them. No problems. Got Deathwing through them as well recently. Only issue I ever had was with their shortage of Battlefront keys that was remedied decently (got it a little late is all).
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Origin just put up their sale
https://www.origin.com/usa/en-us/store/browse?fq=price:on-sale&sort=rank%20desc-
Looks like nothing special to see there!
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Holy shit, Mirror's Edge: Catalyst is cheap as fuck. Worth it for $16 CAD?
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Hard to say. A lot of fans of the first game didn't like it but it seems solid.
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I always have to pause when i see an Ubisoft game on origin.
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How is Need for Speed?
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errr which one? Hot pursuit seems to be the best recent one.
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Checks to see if Mass Effect DLC is on sale...
Of course not!
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Alice of all people wrote about it yesterday:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/12/21/darkest-dungeon-radiant-short-mode/
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i agree with c-star, it gets a bit much
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Subnautica sure as hell is. Among my favorite of the survival/exploration/building genre. The atmosphere in that game is incredible.
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Yep both games are awesome.
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Subnautica specifically is amazing.
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Yep, I got bored pretty quick too.
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The game required some patience, it came out at a good time of year I think
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Overcooked?
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Portal 2
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Helldivers
http://store.steampowered.com/app/394510/
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Torchlight 2 is a nice relaxing Diablo a like that plays well in co-op.
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Thinking about picking up Slime Rancher, just as something silly and amusing to play.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/433340/?snr=1_7_7_204_150_3
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I asked this in the last thread, but here is my question again. My buddy and I want to relive the fun days of local multiplayer Street Fighter, is SFV a good idea and is there more to the local multiplayer than versus?
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Should I be getting the version including the season passes.
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It plays well? Not going to be missing major improvements in animations or something?
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Oh yeah - lots of characters, plays great, etc. Unfortunately it doesn't look like it's part of the sale right now, I guess they want to drive that SFV DLC. :\
http://store.steampowered.com/app/45760/
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You can get the bundle for SFV with all season1 characters and akuma and the unannounced season 2 characters for $48.
There's still no arcade mode, but for single player stuff you have:
* Story mode (pretty easy and only 1 round per fight but it's a cinematic story similar but not as well done as MK story mode)
* Character story mode (similar to above but for each character)
* Combo trials for each character
* Survival mode (interesting idea but too punishing to be fun since you can't continue)
* VS CPU
For local multiplayer there's pretty much only VS, or you can also do local training mode if you want to learn stuff as far as punishes etc, but that's it.
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woohoo, Assetto Corsa DLC on sale. Imma pick up all the dream packs and Porsche season pass.
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Steam Controller, yay or nay? Going to pick up a Steam Link, is it worth getting the bundle? I have a 360 pad and wireless adapter and PS4 controller that I currently use.
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I use mine for Elite Dangerous - the extra paddles on the bottom are helpful, I use them for side-to-side ship motion. For everything else, normal controllers are better. There are third part apps such as Controller Companion for games that do not natively support xbox controllers.
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I bought a Steam Controller and have touched it like 3 times ever. I still wind up using my 360 Controller for basically everything.
Steam Link I use constantly since I bought it. It took a little bit of time to configure it well and get used to what it could actually handle but once I figured all that out it's been great.
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Yeah, GRID is a solid racer, I enjoyed my time with it a couple years back.
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Just bought GTAV. Holy shit 70gb install? This better be good!
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