Valve has announced the 2025 Steam Sales and Festivals for the first half of 2025. These sales include the major seasonal sales such as the Spring and Summer sales as well as various festivals like Steam Next Fest, Fishing Fest, and more.
A breakdown of the sales and festival descriptions are as follows, courtesy of Valve:
- Major Seasonal Sales: Steam celebrates the changing of the seasons four times a year with Steam-wide seasonal sales events, open to all released games to participate with a discount.
- Themed Sales Events (Fests): Several times a year, Steam hosts a wide range of celebrations surrounding themed categories, different each time and often different year-to-year. We have fun trying to come up with themes that are different enough to get players excited about discovering fun games, while also continuing to offer as many games as possible the chance to participate.
- Next Fest: Steam Next Fest highlights upcoming games on Steam with this thrice-yearly event, packed with free demos for players and the opportunity for developers to connect with and build an audience through wishlists.
2025 Steam Sales And Festivals
- Real-Time Strategy Fest: January 20 – 27
- Idler Fest: February 3 –10
- Couch Co-Op Fest: February 10 –17
- Steam Next Fest: February Edition: February 24 – March 3
- Visual Novel Fest: March 3 – 10
- Steam Spring Sale: March 13 – 20
- City Builder & Colony Sim Fest: March 24 – 31
- Sokoban Fest: April 21 – 28
- Wargames Fest: April 28 – May 5
- Creature Collector Fest: May 12 – May 19
- Zombies vs. Vampires Fest: May 26 – June 2
- Steam Next Fest: June Edition: June 9 – 16
- Fishing Fest: June 16 – 23
- Steam Summer Sale: June 26 – July 10
There are also still plenty of events and sales coming for the rest of 2024, as well. Those are as follows:
- Tower Defense Fest: July 29 – August 5
- Fighting Games Fest: August 5 – 12
- Rhythm Fest: August 19 – 26
- Space Exploration Fest: September 2 – 9
- Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Fest: September 16 – 23
- Turn-based RPG Fest: September 30 – October 7
- Next Fest: October Edition: October 14 – 21
- Steam Scream Fest 3 (cheekier name pending): October 28 – November 4
- Cooking Fest: November 11 – 18
- Steam Autumn Sale (major seasonal sale): November 27 – December 4
- Steam Winter Sale (major seasonal sale): December 19 – January 2
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