Steam’s first-ever Black Friday sale makes a surprise appearance to fill the gap left by the Steam Autumn Sale
The 2025 Steam Autumn Sale popped a couple months earlier than usual for the simple reason that in every previous year, it fell too damn close to the Steam Winter Sale. The two big seasonal sales were separated, literally, by just a couple weeks: The 2024 Autumn Sale wrapped up on December 4, and the Winter Sale kicked off on December 15. That’s just too much sale all mush into one month.
But if you thought that the shifted Autumn Sale meant no discounts on Steam in late November, boy, were you ever wrong. Because for the first time ever, Valve has capitulated to the gods of e-commerce and is holding its very own Black Friday Sale.
Which is not to say there aren’t some sweet deals on offer, because there are. One obvious choice is Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, which is 60% off its regular price—that’s $24/£22/€24, the lowest it’s ever been on Steam.
Battlefield 6 is also on sale, for $59.49/£51/€59.49, which is just 15% off the regular price but still notable given that it’s one of the biggest games of 2025 and has only been out for a little more than a month. Continuing in the vein of popular new games, Dying Light: The Beast is 20% off—that’s $48/£40/€48—and Arc Raiders, one of the best games you can buy for $40, well, it’s still one of the best games you can buy for $40. Sorry. Great deal even at regular price though.
At the opposite end of the pricing spectrum, which is where I like to play, I am going to once again recommend First Encounter Assault Recon, the game we all know as FEAR, on sale for just $2/£1.39/€1.79, which includes the base game and the Extraction Point and Perseus Mandate DLCs, both of which I would urge you to ignore.
You can also snag a deal on the base model Steam Deck: The 256GB LCD unit is 20% off during the Black Friday sale, dropping it to $319/£279, which hardware writer Jeremy Laird said in September makes it “a stellar deal for entry-level portable PC gaming.”
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