What you should buy in the Steam Autumn Sale – bargain games and a cut-price Steam Deck

Steam’s Autumn Sale has kicked off for 2025, bringing with it discounts on the Steam Deck and cut-price games to make your backlog ever longer. If you’ve not experienced the madness of the Steam Sale before, welcome! These sales tend to be quite good because a huge proportion of games are discounted between 10 and 90 percent for the duration of the sale. (Looking at my own 164-title wishlist, 110 of them are discounted – so two-thirds!)

Last year’s shopping holiday was centred around the Thanksgiving weekend, but this time it runs much earlier: from today, September 30th, to 6PM UK time on October 6th.

Here are the games and devices that we’d like to highlight, including picks from Connor, Tom O, Ed and myself.

Steam Deck LCD 256GB: £279 after 20 percent discount

The cheapest Steam Deck model is now £200 cheaper than the next tier up, and much cheaper than competing Windows handhelds like the ROG Ally or Lenovo Legion Go. This model is equipped with an LCD screen rather than an OLED one, and comes with only 256GB of internal storage, but I’d still say this is fantastic value.