Steam Winter Sale 2024: Dates, Featured Games, and Price Highlights

The year is wrapping up, and Steam is rolling out its final and largest discount event before 2024 closes the books. The Winter Sale is on the way, bringing two weeks of price cuts across thousands of titles. Below you'll find the confirmed start and end dates, the games already announced by Steam, and a snapshot of what kind of deals usually appear during this season.

Key Dates and Start Time

The official Steam YouTube channel confirmed that the Winter Sale opens on December 19, 2024 and stays live through January 2, 2025. Discounts go live at 6pm UTC on launch day, which lines up with Steam's usual rollout schedule for seasonal events.

Expect the event to run a full two weeks, the standard length for Steam's marquee sales. After January 2 closes the books, the platform will mostly stay quiet on big seasonal events until the Spring Sale arrives in March.

Why Seasonal Sales Are the Big Ones

Steam runs smaller themed promotions year-round, but the four seasonal sales (Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn) are the ones worth budgeting for. They cover the widest catalog and tend to feature the most aggressive markdowns on AAA releases. If you've been waiting on a wishlist item for months, this is the window where prices are most likely to dip below your threshold.

Confirmed Featured Titles for 2024

Steam's announcement video previewed a handful of the games that will be discounted. The confirmed lineup includes:

• Metal Slug Tactics
• Assassin's Creed Mirage
• Core Keeper
• CarX Street
• Helldivers 2
• Manor Lords
• The Last of Us Part I
• Castle Crashers
• Planet Coaster 2
• TCG Card Shop Simulator
• Baldur's Gate 3
• Final Fantasy XVI
• Sonic x Shadow Generations

That list barely scratches the surface. Given the timing right after The Game Awards, expect a wave of spotlight discounts on nominees and winners as well.

2023 Winter Sale Prices for Context

If you want a realistic preview of how steep the cuts can get, last year's Winter Sale gives a solid baseline. Some of the standout prices from December 2023:

• The Hunter: Call of the Wild at $3.99
• Elden Ring at $35.99
• Star Wars: Jedi Survivor at $34.99
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt at $7.99
• Satisfactory at $16.49
• BattleBit: Remastered at $8.99
• Dead Space at $23.99
• Diablo IV at $41.99
• Red Dead Redemption 2 at $19.79
• Dwarf Fortress at $25.49
• Euro Truck Simulator 2 at $4.99
• Starship Troopers: Extermination at $22.49
• Bomb Rush Cyberfunk at $31.99
• The Front at $13.99
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at $7.99
• Monster Hunter World at $9.89

Filling a cart during these two weeks is genuinely easy. The harder part is closing the browser tab.

Quick Tips Before the Sale Goes Live

A few habits that pay off during seasonal sales:

• Tidy up your wishlist before December 19 so the discount notifications stay useful instead of overwhelming.
• Compare regional pricing using SteamDB if you want a quick view of historical lows.
• Skip the popular bundles tab on launch day. The deeper cuts on individual games usually appear by clicking into store pages directly.

The Winter Sale only runs for fourteen days, so the actual deal hunting starts the moment the clock hits 6pm UTC on December 19. Wishlist accordingly.