Steam Autumn Sale opens with deep discounts, Deck deals through Oct 6

Valve's Steam platform launched its Autumn Sale on September 29, offering thousands of discounts on PC games, downloadable content and related hardware until October 6. The weeklong promotion features a broad range of price cuts on AAA blockbusters, indie hits and deals aimed at Steam Deck owners, with several titles reduced by 80 to 95 percent in the deepest discounts section.

Valve moved the Autumn Sale earlier this year to shorten the long interval between the summer and winter sales, an adjustment the company announced in advance. The change also separates the Steam Awards from the Autumn Sale; the awards are expected to be scheduled independently in November. At the sale's opening some users reported brief server instability, but browsing and checkout activity stabilized soon after.

The Steam front page is highlighting daily recommendations and a returning "Deep Discounts" section that collects the platform's steepest price cuts. Those deep-discount listings include longtime catalog titles such as Far Cry Primal, Elite Dangerous, Old World and Control Ultimate Edition. Unlike time-limited flash deals used in some past events, most discounts for this sale are static for the...