Every Steam sale and event coming in 2023 has been revealed
We used to have to guess when Steam sales were happening, but now we can plan out the entire year.
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Remember when predicting (guessing) the big Steam sale dates was basically a national pastime? It seems so long ago, and frankly a little bit weird in hindsight. (It was also very stressful for those of us tasked with writing Steam sale announcement news.) Now, though, we can plan our whole year in advance, because Valve has revealed the dates for every Steam sale and festcoming in 2023.
Valvechanged its Steam sale structurein September 2022, cutting the Lunar New Year sale from its schedule in favor of a more evenly spaced seasonal schedule. The reasoning was simple: Lunar New Year sales typically dropped just a few weeks after the wallet-demolishing Winter sales, and it was just too much Steam sale in too little time.
But then Valve hit us with aChinese New Year saleinstead, a slightly scaled-down event that kept the deal train running. And it’s not letting up: Between the big seasonal events, the Steam Next Fests—three of them—and various themed fests popping up throughout the year, the remainder of 2023 isn’t going to go any easier on your bank balance.
Here’s what’s coming through the year—aside from the Mystery Fest, which is currently underway, the links don’t lead to sale pages but to Steamworks documentation for developers who want to take part:
At a glance, it looks like the longest “no Steam sale” stretch we’re going to get in 2023 is a month, between the end of the Spring sale on March 23 and the start of the Puzzle Fest on April 24. By contrast, the shortest break is just three days, from the end of the Next Fest on June 26 to the start of the Summer sale on June 29. For the most part, you’ll get at least a week or two between sales—not enough time to play the games you’ve purchased, but enough to earn another paycheque so you can afford to buy more.
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Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there he graduated to the glory days of Sierra Online adventures and Microprose sims, ran a local BBS, learned how to build PCs, and developed a longstanding love of RPGs, immersive sims, and shooters. He began writing videogame news in 2007 for The Escapist and somehow managed to avoid getting fired until 2014, when he joined the storied ranks of PC Gamer. He covers all aspects of the industry, from new game announcements and patch notes to legal disputes, Twitch beefs, esports, and Henry Cavill.Lotsof Henry Cavill.
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