When is the next Steam sale?
The next Steam-wide sale is the Autumn Sale, running October 1 - October 8, 2026. Below: every sale, fest and Next Fest Valve has announced, with dates.
Autumn Sale
Steam-wide seasonal sales
| Event | Dates | Starts in | Months | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autumn Sale | 64 days | 2.1 | |
| Winter Sale | 141 days | 4.6 | |
| Spring Sale | 232 days | 7.6 | |
| Summer Sale | 330 days | 10.8 |
Fests & Next Fest
| Event | Dates | Starts in | Months | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Cyberpunk Fest Games in cyberpunk settings: neon, advanced tech, and other sci-fi elements. | 5 days | ||
 | Pins & Pegs Fest Games involving pins (pinball, bowling) and pegs (pachinko, bagatelle). | 19 days | ||
| PvE Survival Crafting Fest Games that include survival, crafting, and a primary gameplay loop centered on PvE. | 33 days | 1.1 | |
| Programming Fest Games that are about programming or programming challenges like logic puzzles. | 43 days | 1.4 | |
| Party-Based RPG Fest Games that include multiple playable characters in one party in an RPG format. | 47 days | 1.5 | |
| Cooking Fest Games about cooking, feeding people, and everything in between. | 75 days | 2.5 | |
 | Next Fest | 82 days | 2.7 | |
| Steam Scream V Games that fall into the horror category, and explicitly Halloween-centric games. | 89 days | 2.9 | |
| Auto-Battler RPG Fest Games where the battles play themselves out – but you have to upgrade your units to win. | 110 days | 3.6 | |
| Desktop Companion Fest Games that sit on your desktop and keep you company while you do other things. | 169 days | 5.6 | |
| Shop Keeper Fest Games about managing a store. | 180 days | 5.9 | |
| Sheep Fest Games about sheep, goats, or other animals in the Caprinae subfamily (so yes, tahrs and ibexes are welcome too). | 190 days | 6.2 | |
| Couch Co-Op Fest Games you can play together on the same device (games must support local co-op). | 194 days | 6.4 | |
| Next Fest | 208 days | 6.8 | |
| Rhythm Fest Games that are about rewarding players who can hit notes / arrows / bullets / etc. in time to the beat. | 222 days | 7.3 | |
| Dinos vs. Robots Fest Games featuring dinosaurs, robots, or both. Or robot dinosaurs! | 243 days | 8.0 | |
| Racing Fest Games about going fast. Like, really, really fast. Faster than other people, faster than the computer, faster than the you of yesterday. | 257 days | 8.4 | |
| Witch Fest Games that are witchy! | 267 days | 8.8 | |
| Fighting Fest Games that are Fighting Games—not just games about fighting, but specifically like the ones that the FGC play. | 271 days | 8.9 | |
| Real-Time Strategy Fest Games that are played in real-time and involve high levels of strategic play, including build / research planning, anticipating enemy movements, and resource management. | 285 days | 9.4 | |
| Mountaineering Fest Games about climbing mountains. | 306 days | 10.1 | |
| Next Fest | 320 days | 10.5 |
How Steam's sale calendar works
Steam runs four Steam-wide seasonal sales a year — Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. These are the big ones: any game released at least 30 days beforehand can take part, so most of the catalogue is discounted at once. The Summer and Winter sales are the longest, usually running about two weeks.
Themed fests run most weeks and spotlight a single category — Racing, Cooking, Real-Time Strategy. Discounts are limited to games that fit the theme, so a fest is not a substitute for a seasonal sale. Steam Next Fest, three times a year, is a demo showcase for unreleased games rather than a discount event.
Dates come from Valve's published schedule for developers and are updated daily. Seasonal sales have historically started and ended at 10:00 AM Pacific; Valve publishes the dates but not the times, so the countdown above assumes that hour.
Schedule published by Valve and refreshed daily. Dates are Valve's own; Steamalytics is not affiliated with Valve.