Another month, seemingly another HUGE GAMES SALE! There was a time when online storefronts holding major discount events were a great time to fill your libraries with games you would probably never get around to playing.
To be fair, Steam’s Summer Sale is one of the big two events of the year, alongside its Winter iteration but everything feels so watered down with events every month, other stores such as Epic Games Store and the like, starting their own discount periods ahead of the Steam one and, it can’t just be me that’s noticed the pattern of it being largely the same big titles on offer every single time, every few months.
It’s gotten a bit like those stores that sell sofas, where every few weeks there is a sale, so why would you ever pay full price for the same thing? You can only be tempted by Cyberpunk 2077 so many times, and with lots of good deals constantly available, do sales even have a place anymore?
Take Grounded for example – great game, worthy of anyone’s time. It’s currently on sale for 50% off as part of a midweek deal, before the sale even starts. It’s not going to get any cheaper later today. Same with Horizon Forbidden West – that’s down 40% on a midweek deal.
Rinse, repeat
The pattern very much now is that the same blockbuster games will get the same heavy discount, newer games may get around 10% off, and some of those obscure indie titles that you had your eye on, that were cheap anyway, may get half price.
Will games like Civ VII see their first discounts this sale? I would be amazed, even though it has Mostly Negative Steam reviews currently. One game that is confirmed as getting a deeper discount than expected is Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, which has just got its huge 1.5 patch, so that’s definitely worth a pickup if you haven’t got it already. The base edition will be cut by 30% with the Enhanced Edition seeing a 15% drop from RRP.
We will have a deeper delve into what’s on offer tomorrow when the dust has settled.
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Many of you told us how much you appreciated us giving you a Buyer’s guide to our 2024 Fall Sale, so as we approach our Special Spring Sale that starts on Tuesday, April 1, Rachel and I have updated this Buyer’s Guide to try to give you some of that information to help out with your buying choices. We encourage you to use this information and the links below to build your sale carts on the GMT website between now and Tuesday when the sale begins. I hope you find this Buyer’s Guide useful.
Where Can You Find ALL the Eligible Sale Items?
We’re trying to make things a little easier for all of you this year, so can find all of the games you can buy in the sale in one department on the GMT Website. Just click Spring Sale 2025 (or choose it from the left side menu on any page in the “Browse by Series/Type” section except the front page on the GMT website) to see a list of every item that you can buy with the 40% off sale discount.
Which Games are Close to Going Out of Stock?
Here’s an alphabetical list of our lowest-stock games, with current quantities on hand for all games with less than 200 copies currently in stock:
NOTE: The following games have been “OUT OF STOCK” on our website for a while, but in our latest physical inventory, we’ve found some copies in the warehouse (quantities noted below). Good while stocks last:
Note that some of the games pictured may already be out of stock now (updated 4/1)
Which Games in the Sale have the highest retail prices?
Here’s a descending order list of our highest retail priced games, for those of you looking to optimize value. Price listed is BEFORE your 40% sale discount:
We hope you find this Buyer’s Guide useful and that you all get some 40% off games in the sale that will bring you many hours of enjoyment! – Gene & Rachel
Published: Jun 26, 2025 05:53 am