Steam Summer Sale 2025: June 26th - July 10th

Grabbed a few more. Sorted wishlist by review score & grabbed Yellow Taxi (98%) and Devil Blade Reboot (99%). Then a few cheaper ones. Trover because I was so positively surprised by High on Life. I'm probably done now, but maybe I'll grab Erenshor. Heard some good stuff about the single player MMO.

 
Needed some good games for my new Steam Deck and now I'm an addict …

Bought Dredge, Death's Door, TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, Animal Well, Outer Wilds, Disco Elysium, Gris, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Little Nightmares 2, Black Mesa, Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Complete Edition, Blasphemous, and Shovel Knight Treasure Trove.

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Little Mac said:
Needed some good games for my new Steam Deck and now I have a problem …

Bought Dredge, Death's Door, TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, Animal Well, Outer Wilds, Disco Elysium, Gris, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Little Nightmares 2, Black Mesa, Witcher 3, and Shovel Knight Treasure Trove.

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There's some all timers there man, that's a list that'll keep ya busy and satisfied for quite some time.

In Gaben we trust.
 
Holammer said:
Grabbed a few more. Sorted wishlist by review score & grabbed Yellow Taxi (98%) and Devil Blade Reboot (99%). Then a few cheaper ones. Trover because I was so positively surprised by High on Life. I'm probably done now, but maybe I'll grab Erenshor. Heard some good stuff about the single player MMO.

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Yellow Taxi has been part of some game bundles so it's probably much cheaper on key reseller websites. Trover too, I believe.
 
I must say Steam has finally made sales decent again with the deep discounts. I forgot what I bought last sale but I got Crash and Robocop this time around. Debating whether to get Stein's Gate since I already played it way back.
 
So, before buying Forza Motorsport I decided I'd better play a big chunk of my Gamepass version alongside a chunk of my already paid for Ultimate Edition of Forza 7. Turn10 bro's, I don't feel so good.... What are we doing here?
 
I have fallen, my wallet absolutely destroyed. Got so many games that were on my wishlist for long long time, I'm pretty much set for like a year or more.

(I'm running all of them on a RTX 4070 laptop at 1440p, 60fps, mostly high-ultra, few RT features on, mostly OFF, always DLSS quality or DLAA if I have headroom) which is roughly RTX 4060 (desktop) < RTX 4070 (laptop) << RTX 4070, so your perfs will reflect what you have )
  • Robocop
    Quickly, looks great but UE5 stutterfest, gunplay is so so good, feels amazing.

  • Ghost Recon Wildlands (Ultimate)
    Incredible world, super fun (= tag cartel members & sync shot, never gets boring), ridiculous amount of content but repetitive, kinda badly optimized and has atrocious vehicle controls.

    I think the gunplay/gameplay and movement in general are okayish - if you're coming from Division 1/2, this is worse. Snowdrop engine on Div1/2 feels and looks insane. Those games are butter smooth. I would say Div 2 > Breakpoint > Div 1 > Wildlands in terms of general 3rd person gunplay, feel, movement and cover, sprinting etc. The gadgets and skills and a lot of guns, open-world compensate this. Also has sometimes irritating bugs, like I couldn't launch my drone after getting out of a heli and I really needed my drone to recon a cartel base to take down the leader, rescue. I had to settle for binoculars to track and go kinda guns blazing. Works but still, buggy. Game works offline so that's a plus.

  • Ghost Recon Breakpoint (Ultimate)
    Much much better gun-play, optimization (vulkan) and general feel. Super smooth. World while beautiful and lush, Wildland was more varied, vast and beautiful. ONLINE ONLY.

  • Far Cry 6 (GOTY)
    I mean yeah I get the cliche but the gameplay is fun, smoothest till date, easiest FC I have played and honestly it feels great exploring the vast world, liberating outposts and trying new guns.

  • Dying Light 2
    Exquisite gameplay, super fun movement and combat, extremely addicting and fun to dropkick zombies. Not really horror more of action thriller. Story is kinda irrelevant. Really cool game. RT is pointless and looks bad and tanks perf. Just play non RT.

  • AC Valhalla (Complete)
    Similar to what I wrote about FC6. Extremely beautiful, the art team cooked so hard. Combat is quite nice. If you're coming from old AC games like AC2 trilogy and similar, yeah not really an AC game but a great action adventure game. Insane amount of content.

  • GTA 5 Enhanced ( had played this on PS4 long long ass back, I don't even have the game disc anymore lol)
    Looks and plays amazing, very very well optimized. Just use DLAA for a crispy, sharp image.

  • Hogwarts Legacy (again on PC as I don't have a PS5 anymore)
    Fun with an asterisk, a bit unoptimized even though this is UE4. Honestly if you're fan, this is must. If you're fan of Ubsioft titles, this also is a must. World is gorgeous and combat slaps.

  • Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate (going back as I had refunded when it launched + DLC I hear is amazing) REFUNDED, RUNS BADLY ON LAPTOP GPU, GET THIS ONLY IF YOU HAVE A RTX 4080+ LAPTOP GPU
    Nothing to say just get it, lol. Runs great now, haven't beaten the DLC yet so will write about it later.

  • Dead Island 2 Ultimate Edition
    Looks great, runs great, well optimized. Very, very satisfying combat, gore and I simply can't get enough of drop kicking zombies. Tired, hard day? Boot this bad boy and jump kick hordes of zombies, electrify them, burn them, mince them. Amazing "kill many zombies in different ways in sunshine LA" simulator if you ignore the cringe dialogue.

  • Slay the Spire REFUNDED, turns out I do not like card games, esp. the RNG.
    I am not the audience, I don't play "card games" but I'm slowly warming up to this. I think its the simple presentation and synergies you can pull. When everything clicks and you have a broken deck it gets fun. Key here is optimizing your defense and offense, you should have more defense that your enemies and hit more than their defenses. This is the base. Effects, curses, conditions just add layers on the base. I'm not fully sold on it yet but so far I'm kinda digging it.

  • Tactical Breach Wizards
    Near perfect strategy, each level exquisitely crafted. Thank god it's not a roguelike. Lot of QoL, forgiving, funny, clever level designs, challenging optional quests. A triumph of game design. Must buy, esp. the bundle that has another fantastic game in it - Into the breach.

  • Choo-Choo Charles
    Thomas is a demonic horror train and you have arrived in the island to hunt it with your own train that you'll steer and upgrade. Funny rather than scary but exhilarating moments. Quite short. Cheap price. Single dev. Super fun.

  • Watch Dogs Legion (Gold) ( has 1 + DLC & Legion + DLC)
    I liked 1 & 2 so let me just get a closure, it's ok. Fucking Ubisoft has put the end of Aiden's story in a DLC for this game so I have get the Gold version lol. Mediocre but still moments of innovation and fun like spikes on the ECG machine monitoring a haunted dead heart.

  • HITMAN, World of Assassination Deluxe
    Was put off by this franchise after Absolution (one of the worst games I have played, quit after a few hours).

    Tried the free demo, DUBAI mission, so so so much fun, actually insane how good this game is apart from the fucking online only requirement and that I still need to buy like a few dlc packs to get all content. Visuals, mission design, freedom, optimization, responsive movement, gunplay, crunchy sound design & replayability are fucking perfect. Incase anyone on the fence and have never bought any of the new Hitman - get the Hitman WoA Deluxe edition (NOT Hitman Deluxe) = this version has like 95% of the content (it doesn't have the celebrity arcade missions and cosmetics, you can get all three of them quite cheap in sales, I'll get those once I'm done (100%) with the main missions))
This is going to easily last me enough till next summer lol, NOT PURCHASING ANY GAME after this for at least a year lol.
 
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Little Mac said:
Needed some good games for my new Steam Deck and now I'm an addict …

Bought Dredge, Death's Door, TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, Animal Well, Outer Wilds, Disco Elysium, Gris, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Little Nightmares 2, Black Mesa, Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Complete Edition, Blasphemous, and Shovel Knight Treasure Trove.

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Good games there. I loved Dredge
 
Little Mac said:
Needed some good games for my new Steam Deck and now I'm an addict …

Bought Dredge, Death's Door, TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, Animal Well, Outer Wilds, Disco Elysium, Gris, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Little Nightmares 2, Black Mesa, Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Complete Edition, Blasphemous, and Shovel Knight Treasure Trove.

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Good on you! Hope you enjoy all of them. Real good games in that little list of yours.
Disco Elysium is a tiny bit unfriendly on the Deck. Too small and walking around is a little iffy, I'd say. Great game, though!

The only game I don't have (yet), is Gris. And Black Mesa I got this sale too. Figured it was about time to revisit HL1 with better looks.
 
Tried WRC Generations. Been wanting a simcade rally game and was hoping something better than EA WRC was out there. WRC Generations is most certainly not it. Frame rate was over 100, but somehow the stuff in the background looked like it was chugging along at 30fps. Overall the graphics had a very weird look. Almost like The Sims in a weird way. Refunded it. I can get a can of Zyn with that $6.

Is EA WRC really it for controller based simcade rally needs? In my mind, RalliSport Challenge 2 is the greatest game with the qualities I'm looking for. Been getting the urge scratched with OG Dirt on PC. But the bloom is killing me. None of the sequels really do it right imo.
 
Rocinante618 said:
I have fallen, my wallet absolutely destroyed. Got so many games that were on my wishlist for long long time, I'm pretty much set for like a year or more.

(I'm running all of them on a RTX 4070 laptop at 1440p, 60fps, mostly high-ultra, few RT features on, mostly OFF, always DLSS quality or DLAA if I have headroom) which is roughly RTX 4060 (desktop) < RTX 4070 (laptop) << RTX 4070, so your perfs will reflect what you have )
  • Robocop
    Quickly, looks great but UE5 stutterfest, gunplay is so so good, feels amazing.

  • Ghost Recon Wildlands (Ultimate)
    Incredible world, super fun (= tag cartel members & sync shot, never gets boring), ridiculous amount of content but repetitive, kinda badly optimized and has atrocious vehicle controls.

    I think the gunplay/gameplay and movement in general are okayish - if you're coming from Division 1/2, this is worse. Snowdrop engine on Div1/2 feels and looks insane. Those games are butter smooth. I would say Div 2 > Breakpoint > Div 1 > Wildlands in terms of general 3rd person gunplay, feel, movement and cover, sprinting etc. The gadgets and skills and a lot of guns, open-world compensate this. Also has sometimes irritating bugs, like I couldn't launch my drone after getting out of a heli and I really needed my drone to recon a cartel base to take down the leader, rescue. I had to settle for binoculars to track and go kinda guns blazing. Works but still, buggy. Game works offline so that's a plus.

  • Ghost Recon Breakpoint (Ultimate)
    Much much better gun-play, optimization (vulkan) and general feel. Super smooth. World while beautiful and lush, Wildland was more varied, vast and beautiful. ONLINE ONLY.

  • Far Cry 6 (GOTY)
    I mean yeah I get the cliche but the gameplay is fun, smoothest till date, easiest FC I have played and honestly it feels great exploring the vast world, liberating outposts and trying new guns.

  • Dying Light 2
    Exquisite gameplay, super fun movement and combat, extremely addicting and fun to dropkick zombies. Not really horror more of action thriller. Story is kinda irrelevant. Really cool game. RT is pointless and looks bad and tanks perf. Just play non RT.

  • AC Valhalla (Complete)
    Similar to what I wrote about FC6. Extremely beautiful, the art team cooked so hard. Combat is quite nice. If you're coming from old AC games like AC2 trilogy and similar, yeah not really an AC game but a great action adventure game. Insane amount of content.

  • GTA 5 Enhanced ( had played this on PS4 long long ass back, I don't even have the game disc anymore lol)
    Looks and plays amazing, very very well optimized. Just use DLAA for a crispy, sharp image.

  • Hogwarts Legacy (again on PC as I don't have a PS5 anymore)
    Fun with an asterisk, a bit unoptimized even though this is UE4. Honestly if you're fan, this is must. If you're fan of Ubsioft titles, this also is a must. World is gorgeous and combat slaps.

  • Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate (going back as I had refunded when it launched + DLC I hear is amazing)
    Nothing to say just get it, lol. Runs great now, haven't beaten the DLC yet so will write about it later.

  • Dead Island 2 Ultimate Edition
    Looks great, runs great, well optimized. Very, very satisfying combat, gore and I simply can't get enough of drop kicking zombies. Tired, hard day? Boot this bad boy and jump kick hordes of zombies, electrify them, burn them, mince them. Amazing "kill many zombies in different ways in sunshine LA" simulator if you ignore the cringe dialogue.

  • Slay the Spire REFUNDED, turns out I do not like card games, esp. the RNG.
    I am not the audience, I don't play "card games" but I'm slowly warming up to this. I think its the simple presentation and synergies you can pull. When everything clicks and you have a broken deck it gets fun. Key here is optimizing your defense and offense, you should have more defense that your enemies and hit more than their defenses. This is the base. Effects, curses, conditions just add layers on the base. I'm not fully sold on it yet but so far I'm kinda digging it.

  • Watch Dogs Legion (Gold) ( has 1 + DLC & Legion + DLC)
    I liked 1 & 2 so let me just get a closure, it's ok. Fucking Ubisoft has put the end of Aiden's story in a DLC for this game so I have get the Gold version lol. Mediocre but still moments of innovation and fun like spikes on the ECG machine monitoring a haunted dead heart.

  • HITMAN, World of Assassination Deluxe
    Was put off by this franchise after Absolution (one of the worst games I have played, quit after a few hours).

    Tried the free demo, DUBAI mission, so so so much fun, actually insane how good this game is apart from the fucking online only requirement and that I still need to buy like a few dlc packs to get all content. Visuals, mission design, freedom, optimization, responsive movement, gunplay, crunchy sound design & replayability are fucking perfect. Incase anyone on the fence and have never bought any of the new Hitman - get the Hitman WoA Deluxe edition (NOT Hitman Deluxe) = this version has like 95% of the content (it doesn't have the celebrity arcade missions and cosmetics, you can get all three of them quite cheap in sales, I'll get those once I'm done (100%) with the main missions))
This is going to easily last me enough till next summer lol, NOT PURCHASING ANY GAME after this for at least a year lol.
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Man Wildlands has aged like fine wine. Underrated at release, it's only gotten better. Very active modding scene too. The FPS mod is pretty good, but it does have a couple unfixable quirks. Namely, it breaks stealth completely. But it makes it kinda the best open world tactical FPS ever made, even with the broken stealth. Not like there's a ton of contenders for that. Breakpoint is ruined by the robots.
 
simpatico said:
Man Wildlands has aged like fine wine. Underrated at release, it's only gotten better. Very active modding scene too. The FPS mod is pretty good, but it does have a couple unfixable quirks. Namely, it breaks stealth completely. But it makes it kinda the best open world tactical FPS ever made, even with the broken stealth. Not like there's a ton of contenders for that. Breakpoint is ruined by the robots.
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Both Ghost Recons are really good, there are simply no other games in this genre - huge, lush, open world, 3rd person fps, stealth or full rambo styled combat, solo or with friends.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint has also fantastic DLC - Deep State with Sam Fisher and it absolutely slaps. Amazing missions.
 
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Playing Ratchet and Clank on Linux, great game and amazing performance, I was about to refund it because it ran like shit on Windows but on Linux it's perfect even at better resolution than on Windows.

Weird thing: The FPS tank when I enable any upscaler in a jungle planet so I decided to leave it native, it's running great anyway.
 
Rocinante618 said:
Both Ghost Recons are really good, there are simply no other games in this genre - huge, lush, open world, 3rd person fps, stealth or full rambo styled combat, solo or with friends.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint has also fantastic DLC - Deep State with Sam Fisher and it absolutely slaps. Amazing missions.
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Yeah that did sound harsh on Breakpoint. I like it much much more than the mainstream impression of it. When I say "ruined", I just mean compared to Wildlands. If I want to go back and replay some open world GR, it's Wildlands. But Breakpoint is a lot better than it was at launch and I reckon there are tons of people who would really like it if they tried it. I think the reviews gave it a bad rap.
 
simpatico said:
Yeah that did sound harsh on Breakpoint. I like it much much more than the mainstream impression of it. When I say "ruined", I just mean compared to Wildlands. If I want to go back and replay some open world GR, it's Wildlands. But Breakpoint is a lot better than it was at launch and I reckon there are tons of people who would really like it if they tried it. I think the reviews gave it a bad rap.
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Breakpoint is way better optimized and gunplay/movement and combat are much superior to Wildlands. I recommend both with all DLCs/editions. Totally worth and right now quite cheap at 80% off for both the games for esp. for the ultimate/gold editions.
 
Got Crash Bandicoot trilogy so my son can stop being a weeb and actually play something good. Little one cost me 30€ spent on Forza he now doesn't want to play. At least this one was 4€.

Tempted to get CP2077 Ultimate and play it 100% on the SD, I have a solo 10 day trip end of the month.
 

I'd been craving a cinematic story and completely forgot about this sequel

My heart skipped a beat when I saw it, it's exactly what I've been looking for.

Here's hoping it delivers, because I absolutely loved the first game

That Thor introduction was something else omgggf
 
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Breakpoint is way better optimized and gunplay/movement and combat are much superior to Wildlands. I recommend both with all DLCs/editions. Totally worth and right now quite cheap at 80% off for both the games for esp. for the ultimate/gold editions.
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My only thing with breakpoint are the health bars. I forget if they cleared it up, but that ruined it for me without Spartan mod. I want my rifle to be the same from start to finish. Headshots work the whole time. Don't want a leveled enemy taking 14 headshots.
 
Celcius said:
Sigh, that feeling when you already own everything that you want

Edit: I've never played Morrowind. Is it better to wait for a remake at this point or does the original hold up?
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Morrowind won't be getting a remake anytime soon and the projects like Skywind etc will play a lot differently. I think it's well worth a try - run it with "OpenMW" for modern resolutions and custom draw distance etc, very helpful in making it feel a little more modern. If you end up liking the game, could be one of the best games you've ever played, so I'd say that gamble is worth a few hours of your time. I just replayed it recently, I think it holds up in many ways and in some more interesting than modern offerings, but I also play quite a few older games and tolerance may vary.
 
This is a steam related question, nothing to do with the sale. Figure I will sneak in here for this.

Usually when I look at my library in steam, it shows all the latest news or updates for any games in my library. Did they remove that feature or did I screw something up? That "latest news" stopped showing up. I can't figure out how to get it back if I inadvertently changed it.
 
If anyone somehow doesn't have OG Dying Light, that new update really put in work. Game totally holds up. Especially in the modern day temporal soup era. It's super crisp and now has great draw distances. Really fun game too. Maybe the best SP zombie game. Probably costs less than a gordita.
 
Yerd said:
This is a steam related question, nothing to do with the sale. Figure I will sneak in here for this.

Usually when I look at my library in steam, it shows all the latest news or updates for any games in my library. Did they remove that feature or did I screw something up? That "latest news" stopped showing up. I can't figure out how to get it back if I inadvertently changed it.
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I've had this randomly disappear from my client before, and restarting the client made it come back. So, it's probably a bug.

I wish there was a good way to get rid of it for good though.
 
Grabbed a few more. Cyberpunk 2077 has the lowest price yet on Steam and I have enough computer for it now. Played through the first 30 minutes and locked it to 60 with 4x FG. It's beautiful.
Super Kiwi 64 (96% user score) & a bunch of arcade style games.






 
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