When is the Steam Winter 2024 sale?
Being a major one-stop digital storefront for many-a-PC gamer, Steam has dominated the market for around 20 years. It is a convenient place to purchase and play games online, and it’s easy to see why this is, but all the sales and discount events that occur throughout the year make it even more alluring.
While we’ve just had the Autumn Sale, Steam is by no means done for 2024. With the closing weeks of the year now upon us, we still have one more event to go: the Steam Winter sale. But when is it happening, exactly?
Well, you still have some time to prepare as, according to a post from Steam that lists all the events of 2024, the Winter Sale will begin on December 19 and end on January 2, 2025. There’s also a countdown clock on SteamDB, which shows that – at the time of writing – it’ll officially begin in just over 10 days and four hours, with it scheduled to kick off at 18:00.
Winter may be cold, but Steam could be in hot water
As always with these things, we can’t be sure what games will actually be discounted until closer to the date (or on the date itself). For the Winter Sale 2023, Steam saw such titles as Mortal Kombat 1, Dave the Diver, Red Dead Redemption 2, Elden Ring, and even Starfield get prices slashed temporarily, with some games having as much as 80% off.
Of course, it’s not all bells that are jingly. Steam’s owner and developer Valve is currently embroiled in an antitrust lawsuit. The suit was recently granted a “class action” status, with the file claiming that the 30% commission the company takes on games sold via its platform (compared to Epic Games Store’s 12%) is “anti-competitive.”
Having said that, we gamers needn’t worry ourselves too much about that right now. We’re getting closer to the Steam Winter Sale 2024 and, with that, the closing moments of what has been a pretty bleak year for the industry. Go out with a smile and more games in your library, I guess.
