Steam sale dates for 2026 and 2027
Steam sale calendar for 2026 and 2027: Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn sales, Steam Next Fest and themed fests.
These are official Steam dates that Valve publishes for developers in advance. Everything starts and ends at 10 a.m. Pacific time. For the Winter Sale that means December 17 at 1 p.m. Eastern or 6 p.m. in the UK.
The four big seasonal sales, where almost every game gets a discount, are in bold. Steam Next Fest is about demos of upcoming games and has hardly any discounts. Everything else is a themed fest: for a week, games from one genre get cheaper, and not all of them.
Steam sales and fests in 2026
| Dates | Event |
|---|---|
| December 18, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | Winter Sale 2025 |
| January 12–19 | Detective Fest |
| January 26 – February 2 | Board Game Fest |
| February 5–9 | Typing Fest |
| February 9–16 | PvP Fest |
| February 19–23 | Horse Fest |
| February 23 – March 2 | Steam Next Fest |
| March 9–16 | Tower Defense Fest |
| March 19–26 | Spring Sale |
| March 30 – April 6 | Home fest (house and cozy games) |
| April 9–13 | Hidden Object Fest |
| April 20–27 | Medieval Fest |
| May 4–11 | Deckbuilder Fest |
| May 18–25 | Ocean Fest |
| June 8–15 | Bullet Fest |
| June 15–22 | Steam Next Fest |
| June 25 – July 9 | Summer Sale |
| July 13–16 | Social Deduction Fest |
| July 20–27 | Train Fest |
| August 3–10 | Cyberpunk Fest |
| August 17–20 | Pins & Pegs Fest |
| August 31 – September 7 | PvE Survival Crafting Fest |
| September 10–14 | Programming Fest |
| September 14–21 | Party-Based RPG Fest |
| October 1–8 | Autumn Sale |
| October 12–19 | Cooking Fest |
| October 19–26 | Steam Next Fest |
| October 26 – November 2 | Steam Scream V (Halloween) |
| November 16–23 | Auto-Battler RPG Fest |
| December 17, 2026 – January 4, 2027 | Winter Sale 2026 |
Note the Autumn Sale. Plenty of people still expect it in late November, around Black Friday, but in 2026 Valve ran it in the first week of October. If you missed it, you missed it. Winter is next.
Steam sales and fests in 2027
| Dates | Event |
|---|---|
| January 14–18 | Desktop Companion Fest |
| January 25 – February 1 | Shop Keeper Fest |
| February 4–8 | Sheep Fest |
| February 8–15 | Couch Co-Op Fest |
| February 22 – March 1 | Steam Next Fest |
| March 8–15 | Rhythm Fest |
| March 18–25 | Spring Sale |
| March 29 – April 5 | Dinos vs. Robots Fest |
| April 12–19 | Racing Fest |
| April 22–26 | Witch Fest |
| April 26 – May 3 | Fighting Fest |
| May 10–17 | Real-Time Strategy Fest |
| May 31 – June 3 | Mountaineering Fest |
| June 14–21 | Steam Next Fest |
| June 24 – July 8 | Summer Sale |
| not announced yet | Autumn Sale |
| not announced yet | Winter Sale |
Valve usually publishes the dates for the second half of the year closer to summer. We’ll add them to the table once they’re out.
Every game page on our site for a game sold on Steam has a How to buy cheaper section with a countdown to the next sale and a discount history. The big sales aren’t your only shot, by the way: Rust, for one, has been 40–50% off almost every month for the past two years. Details are in when Rust goes on sale. CS2 Prime, on the other hand, hasn’t been in a single sale since 2018.
If a game is on Epic too, check the Epic Games sale dates as well: they rarely line up with Steam.
