(The blog has links back to past years if you are interested.) They did their usual “Best Of” post for 2021 that detailed what did well on the platform over the past year. But, in the end my current policy of “don’t buy it now if you’re not going to play it now” won out.īut Valve has some stuff for me to talk about. I did buy some of the DLC for Stellaris that was discounted, so I didn’t walk away completely empty handed.

I bought a few things during the summer sale, but when it came to winter I wasn’t able to warm up to anything sufficiently. So really, not a lot is changing: you’ll just now have a generic spring sale at the beginning of spring rather than a bustling Lunar New Year sale just weeks after the winter sale.As with last year, I ended no new games. Although the games that were discounted there weren’t necessarily always Asian-made games, as games such as Tom Clancy: Rainbow Six Siege and Red Dead Redemption II saw discounts on the last Lunar New Year sale. The Lunar New Year sale was first held in 2016 as a gesture from Steam to celebrate game developers and users hailing from Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and South Korea. The winter sale in 2021 took place from December 22nd to January 5th, 2022, while the Lunar New Year sale came by just three weeks later, on January 27th, and went through February 5th. The first Steam spring sale will take place from March 16th through March 23rd, 2023, after the autumn sale that’s scheduled to begin on November 22nd and the winter sale for December 22nd.Īs for the reason why Steam is opting to kill the Lunar New Year sale, Valve received feedback from users saying that the sale often landed too close to the winter sale. This means that Steam now has one seasonal sale for each season: autumn, spring, winter, and summer. In its place, we’ll have a spring sale now.

The Lunar New Year sale, though, is no more. In 2023, we’ll still have four major seasonal sales. From this point onward, though, those sales might be looking a little bit different, as Steam is changing its schedule around.

Steam’s seasonal sales are some of your best options to get PC games for cheap.

Steam spring sale 2019