The summer Steam store.
You can watch the Steam summer sale reveal trailer below, which showcases some of the highlights you can expect. It's a pretty safe bet that everything featured in the trailer will get some nice offer, including one of the best roguelike games in Dead Cells and what – despite the mammoth and deserved success of Elden Ring – is perhaps secretly still FromSoftware's best game, Sekiro Shadows Die Twice.
If you want to build a vast empire, there's the grand scale of Civilization 6, one of the best city-building game where the goal is actually to restore harmony to nature and leave only footsteps behind.
Stardew Valley, of course, needs no introduction – perhaps the best strategy games in years and a welcome reminder of just how lucky we are that smell-o-vision never actually took off.
Steam summer sale dates
The Steam summer sale runs Thursday June 29 – Thursday July 13, 2023. It begins and ends at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST / 7pm AEST on those days, so make sure to pick out your favorites before it's too late. Once it's live, you'll find all the bargains here.
Until then, check out the best of free PC games that you can play right now.