In today's video I'm discussing the Steam Winter Sale for 2020 and giving my thoughts on what PC games you should think about picking up on the cheap.0:30. Steam Winter Sale 2020: Deals on 'Fall Guys,' 'Control,' 'Halo' and More. By Phillip Martinez On 12/22/20 at 5:42 PM EST. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on. The Steam Winter Sale has a ton of stellar deals on offer, including discounts on some of the best games of 2020. The current Steam Winter Sale doesn't have a corresponding minigame or anything.
As 2020 comes to a close, Steam has finally announced its end of the year deals and opened up voting for the Steam Awards. The Steam Winter Sale offers discounts on thousands of games.
This year, Steam broke its record for the total number of nomination votes, having tens of millions of nominations from the Steam Autumn sale that ran earlier this year. Steam has narrowed down the games to just over forty titles, spread out across the ten different categories. Taking part in this year's vote will earn users a unique Winter Sale trading card for each vote cast, which players can add to their collection.
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The Steam Winter Sale will run from December 22 to January 5 at 10 am PST. Voting for the Steam awards is only open until January 3 at 9 am PST, before the winners are announced.
Users are only allowed to cast one vote for each category, with five options each to choose from. The available categories for this year's Steam Awards 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, and Sit Back And Relax. The categories have a mix of AAA titles, as well as smaller indie developed games to make things more interesting. Some of the titles that have earned nominations are Hades, Doom Eternal, Among Us, and Red Dead Redemption 2, though there are plenty of others too.
For the Winter Sale, many of the games on steam are offered with hefty discounts, each ranging from 20% to 80% off. Titles such as Control, Raft, and The Witcher 3 are included on the list of thousands of discounted titles as well. The Winter Sale even offers discounted deals on entire franchises, such as DragonBall, Star Wars, and Resident Evil.
Other features that are included for the winter update involve new reaction features for Steam chat, as users can now use animated reactions to reply to friends' messages. The new chat functionality is available for the desktop, web, and mobile versions of Steam chat. There are also new bird holiday stickers that are inspired by a popular game on Steam, for those looking to spice things up in that regard. Users can collect the free bird sticker in the points shop every other day during the sale. Hopefully, gamers can use this sale to collect some games on either a friend's or their own wishlist.
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The end of the year is quickly approaching, and for PC gamers, that means the Steam Winter Sale is on the horizon. The Winter Sale is one of the two biggest sales of the year for Steam along with the Summer Sale, and it’s a big event for PC gamers who may have a break from school or work for the holidays. While Steam hasn’t outright confirmed the start date of the Winter Sale just yet, we do have a good idea of when it will kick off.
Specifically, SteamDB – which has gotten these things right many times in the past – says that the 2020 Steam Winter Sale will begin on December 22nd at 1PM EST/10AM PST. That, for those of you without a calendar handy, is tomorrow, so we’ve likely got just under 24 hours to go before the Steam Winter Sale kicks off.
Of course, that means you should probably avoid buying games today, because there’s a very good chance that the game you want be discounted tomorrow at this time. While not every game goes on sale during these big, annual sales like the Summer and Winter Sales, a large portion of Steam’s catalog does get discounted so it’s definitely a good idea to hold off on any purchases you want to make for a little while longer.
Steam Winter Sale 2020 Date
We can expect the Winter Sale to run for two weeks on the nose, as SteamDB says that it should wrap up on January 5th. The Steam Winter Sale is following rather hot on the heels of the Autumn Sale, which took place at the end of November, and the Halloween sale, which obviously took place at the end of October.
Steam Winter Sale 2020 Prices
So, there you have it: if you were wondering when the Steam Winter Sale will begin, it looks like you can count on it beginning tomorrow. The Steam Winter Sale, of course, is just one of the end-of-the-year gaming sales happening right now, and in fact, some of Steam’s biggest competitors have already begun their own big sales.
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