Summary
Steamhas revealed the dates for the themed promotions scheduled to take place in the second half of 2025, completing the list of discount periods coming to the storefront this calendar year. This newly shared information helps developers as well as players onSteamplan for the time ahead in an informed way.
Thanks to Steam offering eye-watering discounts on a wide range of titles regularly, it has over time habituated users to splurge money and grow their game library during its various sale events, different versions of which take place throughout the year. As a consequence, the highly popularValve-owned platformhas become as synonymous with game sales as it has become synonymous with PC gaming. Recently, it shared fresh information about the sales that are in place for the second half of 2025, after previously revealing discount events for the first half of the year back in July 2024.
Valveannouncedits full slate of themed sales fests coming to Steam in 2025, ranging from the major seasonal ones to the more frequent promotions that bring price drops fordifferent kinds of Steam titleseach time. While the first major promotional event of the year, Steam Spring Sale, is planned to take place from March 13 to March 20, the Steam Summer Sale is set to last from June 26 to July 10. The final two big sales, the Steam Autumn Fest and the Steam Winter Fest are respectively scheduled from September 29 to October 6 and from December 18 to July 22, 2025. Notably, among these key sales, the Autumn Fest version would be carried out on different dates compared to the preceding year, where it took place between November 27 and December 4.
Steam Sales 2025 Full Schedule
In recent months, Valve has made certain moves related to Steam that have helped win over the gaming community. These decisions have ranged from incorporating useful new features into the client to tweaking developer documentation in favor of an optimal user experience. In November 2024, it rolled out a built-in gameplay recording facility for the client, allowingSteam users to conveniently save their in-game momentswithout relying on any third-party app. Most recently, the team behind the digital storefront explicitly banned forced ads in one of its documents meant for game developers.
As Valve continues to improve the platform with added features and more player-first changes,Steam’s userbase also keeps hitting unprecedented strides. Over the past year, it has reached a record number of concurrent players on multiple occasions, having crossed 39.3 million concurrent users in January 2025.
Steam
Steam is a digital video game storefront and program developed by Valve that allows gamers to purchase, play, and mod their titles all through one convenient program.
