June 25 is a big day: After years of waiting, Grand Theft Auto 6 preorders are finally live! Well, y'know, for some people, anyway.
But it's a joyous day for us too (and, importantly, in a way that excludes them*) because today also marks the start of the 2026 Steam Summer Sale, the annual discount extravaganza that you're just not going to find on consoles.
(*Am I really cheesed about GTA 6 not coming to PC side-by-day with console? No. I find it a little baffling, given that PC gamers clearly are a "core" GTA audience despite what Strauss Zelnick may say, but cynical though it may be I think PC Gamer editor Ted Litchfield is correct in his assessment: Holding it back for a year or two is a very effective way of double-dipping. It's a strategy that's been successful for Rockstar and Take-Two in the past, so it's not terribly surprising that they're carrying on with it now. Anyway, back to the point: Steam sale!)
As always, although I'm pretty sure this is the first time Valve has ever used this specific term for it, the Steam Summer Sale includes "deep-ass discounts"—and hey, don't blame me, I'm just quoting the trailer here—on thousands of games across pretty much every genre you can think of.
To get the ball rolling, here are a few I like:
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition - $4.79/£4/€4.79 (92% off, and that, my friends, is a deep-ass discount indeed)
- Red Dead Redemption 2 - $15/£15/€15 (75% off, while you wait for GTA 6)
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide - $10/£8.24/£10 (75% off, did you hear about Chuck Tingle's new book?)
- Morels: The Hunt 2 - $5/£4.18/€4.27 (75% off, the original is even cheaper and there's also a new sci-fi sequel)
- Mewgenics - $22.49/£18.74/€21.74 (25% off, not the biggest discount but it's still fairly new and it's great)
- Creature Kitchen - $6.39/£5.25/€6.23 (20% off, another not-huge discount but it's pretty cheap to start with and it's also great)
- Herdling - $12.49/£10/€11.89 - (50% off, I liked Herdling a lot and my list, my rules—also there's a demo if you're curious but uncommitted)
- Ghostwire: Tokyo - $6/£5/€6 (90% off, I was late to the party on this one but it's a genuine low-key banger)
Instead of our usual "deals of all sizes" roundup, PC Gamer smart shopper extraordinaire Ted Litchfield has put together a list of 31 must-play games you can pick up for $5 or less. You can get all of them for around a hundo, but since the odds are pretty good you already own at least a few, you can expect to spend less than that. Great list, great deals.
And of course there are also stickers to earn and fresh loot in the Steam Points Shop that you can use to spice up your profile page or chat messages, so don't miss out on that. The 2026 Steam Summer Sale is set to run until July 9.
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