Epic Games sale dates for 2026 and 2027

The next Epic Games Store sale starts on November 12, 2026. That’s Epic Savings, running until November 26, with Black Friday joining it on November 17. The big Holiday Sale opens on December 10 and ends next year, on January 7.

The 2026 dates are official: Epic lists them in its quarterly guides for developers. There are no such guides for 2027 yet, so the second table below is our own forecast. Sales usually start and end at 11 a.m. Eastern, which should put the Holiday Sale launch at 8 a.m. Pacific or 4 p.m. in the UK.

The big sales are in bold. Epic Savings events are the smaller promotions between them, and they lean toward games without a big name.

Epic Games sales in 2026

Dates	Event
December 11, 2025 – January 8, 2026	Holiday Sale 2025
January 22 – February 5	Epic Savings
February 9–23	Winter Sale
March 9–23	Epic Savings
March 30 – April 13	Spring Sale
April 23 – May 7	Epic Savings
May 14 – June 11	MEGA Sale
June 18 – July 2	Epic Savings
July 16–30	Summer Sale
August 6–20	Epic Savings
September 3–17	End of Summer Sale
September 24 – October 8	Epic Savings
October 19 – November 2	Halloween Sale
November 12–26	Epic Savings
November 17 – December 1	Black Friday (Premium Editions only)
December 10, 2026 – January 7, 2027	Holiday Sale 2026

Black Friday on Epic comes with a catch. It only covers Premium Editions: Deluxe, Gold and the like. For the regular version of a game in November, check Epic Savings or wait for December 10, since the Holiday Sale is built around base games and DLC.

By our count, some promotion is running on about 230 of the 365 days in 2026. A given game gets cheaper far less often, though. Epic’s rules require at least 30 days between discounts on the same product, so a game from Epic Savings may simply miss the next sale two weeks later. If the price already suits you, holding out for the next event is a gamble.

Epic’s calendar barely overlaps with Steam sales. Steam’s Summer Sale ended on July 9, and Epic’s began a week later. Steam’s Spring Sale ran March 19–26, Epic’s started on the 30th. Winter is different: Epic opens a week before Steam and closes three days after it. For a game sold in both stores, the gap works in your favor. GTA V, for one, was in the 2026 MEGA Sale, which has no Steam counterpart at all. What to expect next is in our piece on when GTA 5 goes on sale.

Epic Games sale forecast for 2027

We compared the 2025 and 2026 guides. Nearly every date moved back by exactly one day and kept its weekday: the MEGA Sale from May 15 to May 14, the Summer Sale from July 17 to July 16, the Holiday Sale from December 11 to December 10. We applied the same shift to 2027.

The shakiest row is the Spring Sale. It started on March 26 in 2025 and March 30 in 2026, and the only pattern we can see is that it opens 4–6 days after Steam’s Spring Sale ends. Steam finishes on March 25 in 2027, so March 29 looks plausible, but being off by a few days wouldn’t surprise us.

Estimated dates	Event
January 21 – February 4	Epic Savings
February 8–22	Winter Sale
March 8–22	Epic Savings
March 29 – April 12	Spring Sale
April 22 – May 6	Epic Savings
May 13 – June 10	MEGA Sale
June 17 – July 1	Epic Savings
July 15–29	Summer Sale
August 5–19	Epic Savings
September 2–16	End of Summer Sale
September 23 – October 7	Epic Savings
October 18 – November 1	Halloween Sale
November 11–25	Epic Savings
November 16–30	Black Friday (Premium Editions only)
December 9, 2027 – January 6, 2028	Holiday Sale 2027

Epic posts its first-quarter guide in late November or early December: the last two came out on December 2, 2024 and November 24, 2025. Once the new one is up, real dates will replace the January to April forecast.

Free games don’t follow this calendar, Epic gives them away every week. The Holiday Sale is the exception: it brought 17 of them in December 2025.