Even if building a gaming PC is prohibitively expensive for most people in 2026, software continues to be cheap and abundant. Valve launched its Steam Summer sale last week and all the normal things happened: Red Dead Redemption 2 got a 75% discount for the 14th time since January 2025. The Witcher 3 got its fifth 95% discount since July 2024 (though it's been discounted 15 other times since then, at slightly lower percentages). After eight 65% discounts since June 2025, Cyberpunk 2077 finally got a new record (75% off).
Big publisher games—especially from the likes of Ubisoft, Sega, Sony, 2K and Bethesda—obviously dominate the front page, with major indie mainstays like Terraria, Satisfactory and Dead Cells sharing some of the limelight. Nowadays it's rare to be surprised by an especially steep discount during a seasonal sale: publishers normally increase the discount percentage incrementally as a game gets longer in the tooth. If you've got a wishlist, you probably gravitate towards browsing that.
Rather than splashing out on games that might be conventionally fun to play, this sale has prompted me to spend most of Sunday afternoon browsing Steam's ever-surprising abunda...
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