Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun
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What are you buying?
What are you buying?
Groceries, maybe I can swing something during the winter sale.
I’m finding this sale underwhelming, and my backlog is already huge. Might skip it this time.
Edit - okay, found some good stuff. A lot of the tables for Pinball FX were on deep sales, and with the Legacy packs I got them even cheaper (some I owned for PFX3 already, and some I bought legacy for both).
New Heretic+Hexen remaster
Some DLC for Across the Obelisk as my wife and I play that one together.
Still an underwhelming sale, but at least not a total bust.
They've been pretty underwhelming for a while now.
You used to get crazy deals on games only a few months old. Now it's just the same 50% off a five year old game before being ramped back up to full price between sales.
There's a few bargains of stuff you may have missed, but likely they've been an Epic freebie, or on PSPlus or in a Humble Bundle by now.
Its a mix of things.
- Part of it is that studios tend to price their games closer to what they are "worth". So you have far fewer "This is a 20 dollar game we are gonna try to sell for 50". They just put it at 20 to begin with (or get there pretty quick after launch). Which means that the same "get this for 10 bucks" is now 50% off instead of 80% off and so forth
- Part of it is that game dev has gotten more expensive at all scales and all selling Big Rigs 1 for 5 dollars will do is prevent people from buying Big Rigs 6 for 30
- Part of it is that... as you get older you are more likely to buy the games you want when they are "good enough" rather than waiting until EVERYTHING is at a max discount so you can spread the money you got from the banana stand over the summer as far as possible.
- Which ALSO means that you have a huge backlog and it is a lot easier to say "Do I really need this?"
I saw a game DLC I play that is ancient in game terms (Battletech) and they still want $15 per DLC.
That’s barely a sale imo.
Battletech rocks tho
I think it's more discounted on GOG
At one point I picked up six copies of Fallout: New Vegas at like three or four USD each. I kept the extras in my Steam inventory to trade or gift later. I traded some for TF2 items and gifted two or three to friends when Christmas hit.
Now no more 90% off of good games (okay rarely) and absolutely no keeping games in your inventory. It’s so different now.
Last winter sale was pretty good. I got the entire Borderlands collection, dlc included, for $36.
Yeah. I’ve missed out on Yakuza 0 for 5€, now it’s always 12€. I mean it’s probably worth it, but not when I already own a ton of games that I still want to play.
Yakuza 0 is with it but then you have to play Yakuza 1-6 and then you put the games down and get gifted Yakuza 7 so now you have to beat 4 through 6 and they just announced Kiwami 3 so you'll probably want to compare that to 3 remastered and next thing you know you've bought Yakuza Dead Souls and you're questioning your life.
Part of the sale issue for me, is that I sometimes already own these deep discount games. It makes it feel like there are less good deals.
Also some new games have what I consider to be really high base prices, so a 60% discount is still not near the impulse buy range.
Like, I'm sure Spider-Man is good but it's still $60 and 'only' on a 50% sale? You can get it for $15 at GameStop.
Basically me on the last few of these sales. Such a backlog I can no longer justify even the deep discounts.
I have no data on this, but it doesn't feel like the discounts are all that deep anymore
I thought this said “Autism Sale” and got excited.
All. The. Trains.
OpenTTD is always on sale ;)
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It can be two things.
Glad im not the only one
Same here.
Did the customary scroll through my 50-game wishlist for irresistible 80-90% discounts and basically came up empty. Most of the deep sales are games that will surely be on another deep sale before I finish my upcoming few planned games to play, nevermind my whole backlog. Normally I end up adding something to the pile out of the old "well this is too good to pass up" but for once my wallet might be safe.
Maybe I give in to temptation and pickup one of Virgo Versus The Zodiac(-70%), The Banner Saga(-80%) or Salt and Sanctuary(-75%).
I can vouch for salt and sanctuary if you like Souls-like.
It's a blast with coop
I'd probably have snapped it up already if I didn't recently buy GRIME on an all-time low deep sale and it sort of fulfills the same niche.
I had no idea about co-op actually but I don't have anyone to play with so it probably won't move the needle for me.
I will get to it eventually though, it looks great.
The thing about sales, are that if they happen every month is no longer a big event.
I feel like an old man yelling at a cloud here, but it really seems like everything is on sale all the time, but the sales aren't actually sales they're just the price a thing should be
I remember in the past these event sales being much, much better. I remember the discounts being higher, at least 50%. And 90% and 80% were a lot more common.
I think that’s the actual crux of the matter. These weekly sales throughout the year always existed, it’s the events that don’t feature as big discounts as they used to
This is the deepest discount I've ever seen on Rimworld. Still not at the right price point for me but it's darn close.
You might want to put your wishlist in isthereanydeal.com - rimworld’s not at its lowest currently https://isthereanydeal.com/game/rimworld/info/
Isthereanydeal.com is such a good resource for knowing if a deal is actually a rare opportunity or it's a game that comes up for deep sale constantly.
It just replaces prices actually dropping.
Picked up Doom Eternal for like $4, which is not bad at all. Believe can get $4 of gameplay out of it even if its not as good as predecessor.
I don’t feel like it’s fair to compare the newer DOOM games to one another. They’re more like different games than sequels.
DOOM 2016 is an excellent reboot, fairly grounded.
DOOM Eternal is a movement shooter / platformer with a ton of verticality in the areas.
I haven’t played it yet, but I get the impression Dark Ages is even more grounded and geared towards wide open arenas. Almost gives me Serious Sam vibes.
I’ve had a ton of fun with Eternal and I’m sure you’ll get more than your $4 worth!
I really want to finish DOOM Eternal but it's exhausting game to play just one level. Plus what Bethesda did to Mick Gordon is just plain dirty and left a bad taste in my mouth.
DOOM Eternal is to 2016 as DOOM 2 was to 1.
New guns and an encounter design built around forcing you to be much more aggressive. 2 did it with the addition of the Archvile and Pain Elemental who were enemy spawners that would drain all your ammo if you just bunkered down near a corner. Eternal does it with the much greater emphasis on using special moves in combat to restore resource.
I haven't tried Dark Ages yet because of BDS and all that. But from what I have seen? Not super excited. Eternal is honestly one of my all time top 20 games because it just felt so good once you flowed. Taking that away and emphasizing blocking/reflecting is just... lame?
And one of the biggest tips to vibe with DOOM Eternal: Play at least the first mission on Ultraviolence. The normal difficulty curve is such that you can mostly ignore all the new features and combos until you hit a wall and suddenly need them. Whereas UV forces you to engage with them as they are introduced so that it all kind of just flows. Feel free to knock it back down if you are sane and don't feel like realizing you are physically exhausted after a single DLC level, but the game really benefits from jumping into the deep end to start.
Doom has maybe 49¢-worth of gameplay by modern standards (even at launch), but if you're happy then it wasn't a waste of money.
As someone still halfway through SilkSong, I am immune
I'm barely into act 2, and then Supergiant had the Gall to drop Hades 2 on me as well.
I've been playing a few rounds of H2 when I rage quit Silksong because of platforming shenanigans / Hard ass boss fights / getting bodied by nobodies while trying to reclaim my cocoon.
Gonna be a bit before I'm buying new games.
I just bought Shape of Dreams and Hades 2 just got released. I'm drowning right now.
I already have Balatro, why would I need another game?
Slay the spire?
This is my first time actually looking at the new Steam store UI and I have to say that I don't like it. They seem determined to fit less and less information on the screen and make it harder to find content. I didn't like their previous UI revamp either for the same reason, but this one is worse. That's fine Valve, my backlog is eternal, I won't buy more games if you make it hard.
Looks like they're optimizing the UI for handheld/console while forgetting that the majority of their userbase is still on desktop.
That could very well be the case. We don't have their stats, so maybe they do get a lot of store users on their phone where people make purchases and then later play on their PCs... but I am pressing F to doubt here.
I do the majority of Steam browsing on my deck, with much of the rest being following links in Lemmy, etc. on my phone. I also expect I'm not their typical user.
Hey, maybe you're more common than either of us suspected. I do all of my steam usage on my desktop with a large monitor. Their UI is trash for it IMO.
For shame! You press X to doubt. Pressing F is to pay respect.
The F was really just the fail I made along the way.
I'm feeling like a lot of y'all. My backlog is already immense, and i don't even need DLC for the games I have, which are mostly all huge and never ending anyway. Have we reached peak gaming? Are we now making games faster than anyone can play them?
It's so bad, OMG. For +30 games on my wishlist, not a single difference from the Summer sale, and about half of them were already on sale for the same price before the Autumn sale began.
Why even bother with seasonal sales at this point.
Nothing, too busy playing Hades II. Death to Chronos!
Dude yes, amazing game that never gets old, from a fan of the OG game as well
Moonlight guide us!
Playing Hades 2 on desktop, Hollow Knight on deck, and Anno 117 is coming out in a month... Not to mention the five other games I added to my backlog this year and haven't touched yet.
I will be skipping this sale, methinks.
Does Factorio ever go on sale? I think I’ve had it wishlisted for over a year now.
Not sure if trolling but no, factorior will never go on sale, and will only ever increase in price.
No, not trolling. I’d never heard that they had a policy against it until I looked it up just now.
Somehow I was under the impression that devs didn’t even get a say as to if or when Steam would put their games on sale. I thought I had heard that as a major gripe of devs who list games on Steam.
Now I’ll have to decide when I feel like it’s worth the remainder of my life and $35.
As someone with 902 hours on steam and about that much on the standalone client, I highly recommend you dont. It will consume the next month of your life. If you do buy it. Learn about blueprints and how to import them. Dont have to use others but one of the better teaching tools in the game for belt mechanics. If you like trains, use the mods, the train logistics mods make them so much better, but do take some study to make work.
If I'd known that I would've bought it years earlier.
Factorio never goes on sale, but Shapez and shapez 2 are on sale and they are in the same genre but more beginner friendly.
Shapez 2 was great. I got into last night. Lovely and relaxing. No stress, no resource management, no time limits, no enemies. Just cozy thinking about production and how to optimize. Right up my alley.
Ugh, I have too much to play in my backlog already. I'll probably pick up one game that I want to play eventually, maybe Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon.
I've been playing Outer Worlds, though, so I'm saving up for the 2nd one just in case it's good. Given Avowed's release, my hopes aren't high. However, the first game is so intensely 6/10 that if they can just improve a tad bit on the formula, I think I would like it a lot.
Just don't mix up Outer Worlds with Outer Wilds lol.
Or maybe do, since they're both good games.
Maybe none, maybe a couple; lately I have resisted sales since my backlog is so big. That being said, some of the more interesting ones on my wishlist are on sale this time around. I might pick one or two of these:
First person shooters:
- Trepang2 (F.E.A.R. homage) - 60% off, $12
- Prodeus (boomer shooter) - 40% off, $15
- Metal: Hellsinger (boomer shooter) - 75% off, $8
Indie/puzzle/chill:
- The Talos Principle 2 - 70% off, $9
- Everspace 2 - 70% off, $15
- Ultimate Chicken Horse (casual/party couch co-op) - 65% off, $5
- Spiritfarer: Farewell Edition - 90% off, $3
- Untitled Goose Game - 55% off, $9
- It Takes Two - 75% off, $10
- Kaze and the Wild Masks (2D platformer) - 80% off, $3
- The Forgotten City - 75% off, $6
- Dreamscaper (indie roguelike) - 80% off, $5
Also:
- Persona 4 Golden (JRPGs aren't really my thing, but I hear that this is literally one of the best games ever) - 50% off, $10
- God of War - 60% off, $20
- Desperados III (isometric tactics) - 90% off, $4
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps (2D platformer) - 75% off, $8
- Sifu - 60% off, $16
Careful about persona 4, game is super homophobic and overall not nice towards minorities. If that's a dealbreaker to you, Persona 3 or 5 are better experiences. Id argue p5 feels less like a jrpg too
Also there's a remake coming out soon which will flesh it out, as it is a quite outdated game
Yeah it was a product of the PS2 era
I played it and don't remember anything that isn't typical in JPRGs. I guess you have to be able to withstand a certain amount of cringe if you're a fan of Japanese games/anime.
No, I played quite a bit of jrpgs myself, and even my anime loving gf who usualy is okay with the usual cringe amount said that it's just overwhelming in p4.
For context we're trans and lesbians so it might just be that we're more aware and concerned by the horrible moments than you.
What if I want the gays AND jrpg?
In stars and time is a wonderful queer jrpg I love a lot. No cis het character in the main cast.
Persona 3 portable has a lesbian romance scene as female MC, or just if you consider the main character as genderqueer, which they kinda are in my headcannon tbh lol.
There's Super Lesbian Animal RPG which i've heard a lot of good from.
Seconding "In Stars and Time"
Atomic Heart and Cyberpunk 2077 are the only two on my list that are discounted enough.
Maybe, maybe not. I'm not close to running out of unplayed games.
CB 2077 is really good and probably worth it if you enjoy open world games like GTA, skyrim, or RDR.
Atomic Heart I have been having a hard time getting into, for all the commonly cited reasons. The game looks gorgeous and its a fun setting, but you actually spend a lot of time in boring grey hallways fighting the same robots, and the combat just isnt especially great. Performance has been real hit or miss as well (I'm on Linux through proton).
I played Atomic Heart on Game Pass around the time it came out and... I cannot recommend it. The actual game was really rather dreary.
what are ya buyin??
Fixed that for you
Don't tempt me to spend even more money on games I will forget I bought 😅
I have a huge backlog, both in steam and physical, so no, thanks….
Nothing lol, I have bills to pay.
I have room in my budget to buy maybe one game per year, and it's never when a sale is on... *sigh*
I used my disposable income during the year to drop money in my steam wallet. That’s how I saved for the steam deck the first time around.
There’s most of the times always some sort of sale going on somewhere. Might want to put your wishlist linked in to isthereanydeal.com - it’s great! Oh and allkeyshop.com if it’s not… 😉
I bought "Cult of the Lamb". It's not a spectacular discount but good enough to go try it out.
We made our entire cult out of cats 😁. If we ever end up with a non-cat, they're first up to be sacrificed lol.
Would have picked it up, but for the number of dlc inflating the price
I just got the base version. If I like it enough I can wait for another sale for the DLCs
Unfortunately (or fortunately?) I'm a completionist. I'll either get everything or nothing. Which means games with lots of DLC are generally a no no for me.
I have…
Just Shapes & Beats
Nine Sols
Smushi Come Home
CATO: Buttered Cat
Is This Seat Taken?
GRANBLUE FANTASY: Relink
Ballionaire
Pepper Grinder
Like a Dragon: Ishin!
…in my cart, but considering I‘m unlikely to get around to any of them this year, I‘ll let them sit in the cart throughout the sale and see whether I’ll pull the trigger on anything.
I will be playing Silksong until the winter sale, but I can recommend this for the sale price that they're asking (0.75€ at the moment).
I knew I wasn't the only one.
Cool sweeper game tho
Picked up Rogue Trader, Death Road to Canada, and Doom Eternal for $20. Not bad.
Rogue Trader is excellent. Wife and I have put almost 400 hours into that one with co-op.
Oh waw we bounced off pretty hard on that one playing coop. After spending so much time in BG3, the “look at player 1 when they’re talking to someone” was a major downer. I think we spend one evening in that game. I can totally see it shine as single player, but coop - can’t recommend.
We just split duties there, and tbh our third run of the game was mostly custom characters just because the combat is so fun. For that run we sent Yrliet to the inquisition, spaced Idira, told Argenta she wasn’t needed - go stay on station, and punted Cassia off the ship at the first sign of trouble. Was actually a hilarious run, and ended up siding with <spoiler guy> at the end for the first time, who was as crazy as I thought but not actual evil and still emperor aligned.
We’ve also played a ton of Solasta, and looking forward to Solasta 2, but absolutely despised BG3. We want to go on adventures, not play a soft-core fuckin’ simulator that bends the crap out of 5e rules. BG3 just gets so boring come Act 3 and falls apart. Brain worms just don’t make for an interesting premise I guess.
I'm already playing Hades 2 and FF Tactics comes out tomorrow.
So that, I guess, then probably nothing. /shrug.
Steam sales lose their luster when they're so frequent.
I’m seeing a lot of games with what seems like a much steeper discount than usual. First thing I do when there’s a steam sale is look at my wishlist and sort by discount and there are a lot of games on sale for 90% off, many of which only a couple dollars.
Probably these: Doom Eternal (3.99€), Dust to End (2.99€), Night of the Dead (8.69€), Days Gone - Broken Road DLC (5€) and Sniper Elite 5 (5€)
I might pick up monster train and doom eternal. Yeah, I still haven't played doom eternal.
I really like Monster Train. Its my favorite after Slay the Spire.
Monster train 2 is even better!
It seems, like... nothing ?
Can't find anything worth playing so far.
Darktide 67%, X4 at 75% and Hades 75% off are all extremely tempting. I need to start seeding the idea of buying darktide to my friends. I dont even think its worth buying any of these when im so hopelessly addicted to Beyond All Reason.
Darktide is fun with friends, but it's still a good game without. My friends all burnt out on it after 30ish hours but I've almost hit 100 now and still having fun every now and again. Scratches a very particular itch
Probably nothing, as I'm already kinda busy juggling Silksong and Hades 2 with the occasional Starvaders and Splatoon 3 session. I might end up just getting Cuphead for later though, and would maybe have considered God of War or Spiderman if there weren't so many other great games to play.
For people who haven't played it, Ori and the Will or the Wisps is a great buy at 75% off. Probably my favorite metroidvania if you don't count Tunic as a metroidvania.
Got both Hellblade games for $26 last night. I didn't even know a sequel came out until yesterday.
It's a cool tech demo.
sadface
Wait it's bad?
I think he's talking about the second one, which I've heard mixed things about. I thought the first one was an excellent - albeit short - experience that knows what it tries to do and doesn't do anything else.
Ah I see. Hopefully I enjoy the sequel. I'm replaying the first one before I start the second
Just to give the other perspective, I think Hellblade II is a masterpiece so I hope you enjoy your time with the two games as well!
I think part of the reason for people's reactions like above are due to how it was scooped up by Microsoft and was thrust into the hype machine.
I think more often than not, people who played the first one knew what they were getting into for the sequel, and they really are Character Games first and foremost. There's a reason Senua's actress won Best Performance for her role in both games.
As an aside, I highly recommend watching the behind-the-scenes videos for the games if you take a liking to them.
Recommend 1000xRESIST if you want a story game.
i didn't get anything in summer sale so this time I might indulge
Only buying Ghost of Tsushima and just gifting Cyberpunk 2077 to a friend. It feels like every sale it's the same deals, at least to me.
Played the demo of Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream a while back so might buy it now it's 20% off. Not surprised it got "Overwhelmingly Positive". Bloody excellent game.
If it would have had Swedish voice acting I would have bought it.
I mean I was kinda tempted to get Planet Crafter, but then I thought about it for a bit and realized that I didn't really want it.
Edit: I ended up buying it and Goblin Cleanup because I got paid for a job after making this comment. I ended up playing for 7 hours straight because I just wanted to see the next tier/level of stuff
Just purchased Stationeers and that's likely it for me. I've been meaning to pick it up forever and it rarely goes on sale, so it felt like a safe choice!
Ahh that game is so great but I hate it and can never get far in it. It both scratches a itch that almost no other game can yet is so exhausting to play I can never keep at it for more than a couple hours.
Everyone in this thread: happy with what they have and got bills to pay
Me: ok cool I can actually stay under 400€ nvm the fact my backlog bigger than Beverly Hills
Never played the first Hades. Never played Cult of the Lamb. They're both on sale now, and they seem like pretty good Steam Deck games.
Hades plays very nice on steam deck
Two of my favorites games on the deck
Skip Hades and miss nothing.
It's a wildly-overrated game. Tedious, derivative and grindy.
Ignore that post. Some opinions aren’t worth voicing, this is one of them.
I'm well aware what Hades is. I guess that guy doesn't understand the Rogue-like model...
I'd like to buy Sea of Stars or Dungeons of Hinterberg. They've both been on my wishlist for a while. But I can't really justify the cost rn, and I already have a huge backlog to work through. So I'll probably skip this autumn sale as well.
Just to throw in a different genre, I'm currently enjoying Car-X Street, Forza racing, and need for speed heat.
Picked up Shinobi: Art Of Vengeance and loving it so far. Also Patrick's Parabox as I played the demo in a recent Nextfest and loved it. Also the 2025 Nurburgring for Automobilista 2 because I cannot resist the allure of The 'Ring.
Edit: Really digging Shinobi, but goddammit I wish I could dodge cancel.
I still want to play MGSV, but it's currently not on sale. My guess is because of the latest remaster.
If I had remembered this was coming, I might have waited a little bit to see if Maze Mice was gonna be on sale. Either way, nothing I'm desperately craving to buy, so I'll probably see if any of the games on my wishlist go on sale for a good deal
Edit:
Might wait and see what's on sale before making any purchases considering I spent a little more than I was expecting over the weekend.
Though I might splurge if Sonic Lost Worlds is on sale for a good price. Just for mods to make movement in that game actually bearable. Trying to run only to basically be slowed to a crawl by moving left or right is painful.
If you bought Maze Mice not too long before the sale started, you might be able to get the difference refunded to you by taking to Steam Support
It's not a huge deal. It also gives a little more to the dev, so in the end I don't mind.
Yeah, hurry and buy up, Gabe needs a new yacht!
That's reassuring! The first one has to be my fave game. I'm replaying the first one and my love for it has only intensified. I can't play for long rn, though. I've been anxious lately and can only handle so much of the spooky scary stuff lol.
I'm so excited to play the second. If it's as good as you say it is, a third game would be awesome if they put the same amount of effort into it