You are the chosen one. The Steam Winter sale is about to start, so grit your teeth, eat a few thousand pounds of sugar cookies, and become your own Santa Claus. In other words, it's "haha time to buy games that I. WILL. NEVER. PLAY," as a top Reddit comment reacting to the event's new trailer says. I understand the hesitation, but dumping out the contents of your wallet directly into the ocean is, I think, unfortunately the key to being truly jolly. If you'd like, you can debate it with the Valve Corporation – though it at least had the decency to discount a number of perfect games this year. The Steam Winter sale 2025 goes live on December 18 at 10:00AM PST / 1:00PM ET, and it'll run through January 5. While its precise discounts aren't available yet, the sale's trailer does reveal a number of great games getting their price tags snipped. Here's a list of them: Steam Sale dates 2025 and beyond: When is the next Steam sale? I've spent five hours exploring the Steam Autumn Sale with our Games Editor, and these are the 10 best games on discount I'd recommend picking up while you still can "For the first time ever," Valve reminds us, the Steam Autumn Sale is live 2 months early – like, right now Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon Dynasty Warriors: Origins Borderlands 4 Dune: Awakening Dying Light: The Beast The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered Rematch Slime Rancher 2 Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Megabonk Digimon Story Time Stranger R.E.P.O. Assassin's Creed Shadows Marvel's Spider-Man 2 RV There Yet? Escape From Duckov Dispatch Deltarune Elden Ring Nightreign Hades 2 Drive Beyond Horizons The stunning sequel Hades 2? Flashy new superhero drama Dispatch? The lovely RPG-roguelike-multiplayer thing Nightreign? Uh oh…