The four seasonal sales and one bonus
Five sales dominate the Steam calendar: the Winter Sale (typically late December into early January, the biggest of the year), the Spring Sale (usually mid-March), the Summer Sale (late June into mid-July, historically the loudest), the Autumn Sale (late November, often overlapping with Black Friday), and the Lunar New Year Sale (late January or early February, tied to the actual Lunar New Year date, so it moves the most). Between them, roughly every ten to twelve weeks there's a major, catalogue-wide discount event.
How long they typically last and what to expect
Each of the big seasonal sales usually runs for about ten days to two weeks. Prices are set on day one and hold for the whole event — Steam retired the old "daily deal" and "flash sale" model years ago, so waiting until the last day almost never gets you a better price than buying on day one. On top of the five headliners, Steam runs smaller themed events throughout the year (Next Fest for demos, publisher spotlights, genre-specific festivals) which sometimes include their own discounts on a narrower selection of games.
The wishlist is the calendar
The single most useful Steam feature for saving money is also the most underused: your wishlist. Every time a wishlisted game goes on sale, Steam emails you and puts a notification in your library. You don't need to remember when the Summer Sale starts or check whether your specific game is included — the store tells you. Add anything you're vaguely interested in, then stop thinking about it until an email lands. That single habit will save you more money than tracking any calendar.
Should you wait for the next sale, or buy now?
The honest answer depends on two things: how badly you want to play the game right now, and how the current price compares to what it has historically sold for. If a game is already close to its lowest recorded price, waiting for a seasonal sale probably won't save you anything meaningful — big events tend to hit the same lows that mid-cycle sales already reached. If the current price is well above the historical low, waiting is almost always worth it. The next major sale is at most a couple of months away.
A seasonal sale is not automatically the best price
This surprises people: the Winter or Summer Sale isn't always the lowest a game will get. Newer titles often see their real bottom during a franchise weekend, a publisher spotlight, or a mid-cycle sale a few months later — the big seasonal events attract more attention, not necessarily deeper discounts. The only reliable way to know whether today's price is genuinely good is to compare it to the game's all-time low, not to whether the current sale has a fancy name.
How Degoran fits into this
We show you the current price on Steam alongside its historical low and prices from other authorised EU stores. That's the whole picture: is today's number actually low, or does it just have a big red badge? Wishlist it on Steam for the notification, then check here before you click buy — that's all it takes.