The 2022 Steam Winter Sale is live
Voting for the 2022 Steam Awards is now live too.
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2022 is winding down and the bomb cyclone is spinning up, and that means the most wonderful time of the year is finally here: TheSteam Winter Saleis live!
The 2022 Steam Winter Sale features deep discounts on all kinds of games, the best of which we’ll be rounding up in a recommendation post that should be up soon. (The sale just started, you know. These things take time.)
But that’s not the only thing going on. There will also be deals on various bits of digital goodies in theSteam Points Shop, and the traditional free festive stickers—also digital, for the record—that will be up for grabs throughout the sale.
The end of the year on Steam also signals the start of voting in the annualSteam Awards. Voting is live now and will remain open until 9 am PT/12 pm ET on January 3.
Here are the 2022 nominees, spread across 11 mostly-familiar categories:
Game of the Year
VR Game of the Year
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Labor of Love
Better With Friends
Outstanding Visual Style
Most Innovative Gameplay
Best Game You Suck At
Best Soundtrack
Outstanding Story-Rich Game
Sit Back and Relax
Best Game on the Go
The 2022 Steam Winter Sale is live now and runs until 10 am PT/1 pm ET on January 5, 2023. It’s the big one, but as always, we strongly recommend that you shop around before you push the button:GOG,Epic, andHumbleare having very nice holiday sales of their own, so you might as well be sure you’re getting the best deal you can.
And if you saw something in the Winter Sale trailer up above that looks cool and want to know what it’s all about, here’s the full lowdown on every game that appeared, in order of appearance:
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