It's that time of year again. The Steam Summer Sale is here, discounting plenty of PC games that you've had on your wishlist for years. Running from now until July 10th at 10am PT, you can grab tons of cheap games, install them on your Steam Deck, and forget you ever owned them, thus inflating your backlog tenfold. At least, if you can get past the Steam servers crashing from how many users are buying games. Some of the highlighted titles on the front page are Grounded, from Xbox Game Studios, Horizon Forbidden West, from Sony Interactive Entertainment, indie darling Balatro, and thousands more.

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[SecureBoot]

I you can't read thru it with understanding then there's nothing I can do. You do you, pirate stuff if something happens, I don't have to. That's another difference.

What goes this even mean? I understand what you're saying. You're just wrong though

 

[Deleted member 754542]

Can you idiots keep your comments relevant to the fucking sale instead of debating over ownership of digital games?

 

[NotUsingAnAltAccount]

What goes this even mean? I understand what you're saying. You're just wrong though

It's alright for you to be wrong, don't worry about it.

 

[retrospect]

It doesn't seem great this year. It seems the Steam Summer Sale is now seen as a time when players will but games, even if the discounts aren't great, because they've been holding off until now to buy and it's the start of the summer break. Fair enough. It not the mega sale it once was. It's still ok though. Decent discounts, even if better discounts were available earlier this year for many games. I picked up a few disappointing games already.

 

[captainpringles]

I love the time of year where I get to spend my mortgage payment on games that I'll probably never play.

 

[Robert Newbie]

Guys, I rented Half-Life 2 in 2004 and forgot to return it, when do you think Blockbuster is gonna call me and ask for it back? Might need to sell my car to pay the late fee.

I wouldn't want to be in your shoes. Not knowing when the inevitable will happen, I'd never sleep again.

 

[Taleweaver]

I think I'm developing a split personality.

On one hand, I bought a switch 2 and even bought some discounted eshop games (ahem...Mario kart world is nice, but it's not a solo game). Also got Mario world wonder 2nd hand from the internet.

On the other hand, I bought steam keys for about ten bucks on steam summer sale(1) and twenty more bucks for a fanatical bundle.

If it sounds greedy...just say it's like having two children.


(1) at side duscussion: feel free to replace it with "steam summer long-term rentout service". Have it your way.

 

[rudras]

I think I'm developing a split personality.

On one hand, I bought a switch 2 and even bought some discounted eshop games (ahem...Mario kart world is nice, but it's not a solo game). Also got Mario world wonder 2nd hand from the internet.

On the other hand, I bought steam keys for about ten bucks on steam summer sale(1) and twenty more bucks for a fanatical bundle.

If it sounds greedy...just say it's like having two children.


(1) at side duscussion: feel free to replace it with "steam summer long-term rentout service". Have it your way.

Lol I actually did the same thing I also bought some eshop game at low price like Blade of darkness, Death's door, both Guacamelee, all Tales of, World of FF and more...
By the way did you know that The Last Remnant Remastered has never been discounted....not even once on eshop since released ? Weird...
So I took this one and another rpg called Cosmic Fantasy Collection 2 because strangely the english version has never been shared online, you cannot find it anywhere unlike the first compilation... so both around 20 euros exceptionally are my only big purchase on eshop...

And I also secure some big physical titles (for me) like Suikoden, FF7/FF8Remaster, Tactics Ogre, Mario Rpg, Baten Kaitos, Unicorn Overlord...
Persona Tactica was at 9 euros (?) and Bayonetta 3 at 17 euro during summer sale also . The thing is not all of them are exclusive at all and I even already have some of them on steam but having them physically and in portable mode with some boosted performance (for some of them) kinda attract me I guess...

As for the free upgraded games, I already had Mario Odyssey, I just bought 3D World and both chibi zelda. And it was not a bad idea about echoes of wisdom, the game doesnt work with last updates using latest atmosphere....I know you can play it using "launch at original state" fonction with goldleaf by example but still...
Actually even Zelda Bow and Tok seem to be blocked now and stuck at load screen since Atmo 19.0.1 but anyway I just dont like this two game particullary so no buy for now on my side...but maybe others should secure this ones at some point on switch 2 just in case to avoid this recurrent compatibility problems...

So yeah Im also throwing some money right now like a potatoe but as long there is no big update from the console who can block us from buying low and upgrading freely by connecting to the eshop, it might not be a bad idea to put some game aside before having to definitly turn off Internet on console.

Side note: Of course I bought Suikoden physical compilation for Switch 1 version (even if stuck at 30 fps), not the useless plastic card for Switch 2!!!

 

[retrospect]

I’m the opposite, maybe it’s because I put too much trust into steam. Or maybe it’s because I already have a sizeable collection and it feels nice to have everything in one place

I used to choose GOG over Steam, but now I choose Steam. Benefits like Steam Family, Steam Input, and the pre-compiled shaders and simplicity of installing the games on SteamOS are too big to ignore. It’s an excellent platform.

 

[Something whatever]

This year sells are not so great

Post automatically merged: Jun 29, 2025

This year sells are not so great

 

[yankii]

"The Content and Services are licensed, not sold. Your license confers no title or ownership in the Content and Services. To make use of the Content and Services, you must have a Steam Account and you may be required to be running the Steam client and maintaining a connection to the Internet." - https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement

Hmm

 

[NotUsingAnAltAccount]

"The Content and Services are licensed, not sold. Your license confers no title or ownership in the Content and Services. To make use of the Content and Services, you must have a Steam Account and you may be required to be running the Steam client and maintaining a connection to the Internet." - https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement

Hmm

I'm so happy that at least one person actually read it.

P.S. Sentence before it is also important: "This license ends upon termination of (a) this Agreement or (b) a Subscription that includes the license."

 

[SecureBoot]

I'm so happy that at least one person actually read it.

P.S. Sentence before it is also important: "This license ends upon termination of (a) this Agreement or (b) a Subscription that includes the license."

We're not saying it's owning. We're just saying it's not renting