The Steam Winter Sale 2020 is upon us

Extra! Extra! It’s 22 December and the Steam Winter Sale has begun! Whether you’re buying for a friend or just adding to your endless backlog, there’s no better time to splurge on some digital adventures than Christmas month. 

Steam Winter Sale 2020 best deals

As usual, Steam is blessing us with an endless string of great game deals, including Star Wars Jedi: The Fallen Order, Hitman 2, and The Witcher 3: GOTY Edition. Here are some of our favourite picks: 

• Sea of Theives – R109,50 (-50%)
• Dark Souls 3 – R199.75 (-75%)
• Total War: Three Kingdoms R299.50 (-50%)
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order R399 (-60%)
• Civilization VI: Platinum Edition – R604.63 (-76%)
• Hitman 2 – R89 (-80%)
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – GOTY Edition – R149.70 (70%)
• GTA V – R249.50 (50%)
• Battlefield V – R399.98 (60%)
• Borderland 3 – (-67%) 2R96.67

Steam holiday gifts

Steam has partnered also with artist Eric Nyffeler this year to create their Winter Sale theme and accompanying artwork, including bird stickers inspired by popular games.

Hop on over to Steam’s point shop where it will be releasing a new bird sticker every other day.  

Steam Awards: Make your vote count

At the end of each year, Valve hosts the ‘Steam Awards’, where Steam users can log in and vote for their favourite games across ten categories up until before 3 January 2021.

These titles consist of all games that have been nominated via the ‘Steam Awards Nominations’ earlier this year.

The categories are:

• Game of the Year
• VR Game of the Year
• Labor of Love
• Better With Friends
• Most Innovative Gameplay
• Outstanding Story-Rich Game
• Best Game You Suck At
• Outstanding Visual style
• Best Soundtrack
• Sit Back and Relax

Voting in the awards will also earn you trading cards.

If you want to learn more about the Steam Winter Sale and updates, check out Steam’s latest blog post here.