Steam Week: Summer Sale Sends Players Hunting Forgotten '90s PC Oddities
A roundup of notable Steam facts for the week ending June 28.
Valve kicked off its Steam Summer Sale last week and the usual patterns held: Red Dead Redemption 2 dropped to 75% off for the 14th time since January 2025. The Witcher 3 hit a fifth 95% discount since July 2024 (and has seen 15 other discounts at slightly lower rates). After eight 65% sales since June 2025, Cyberpunk 2077 finally reached a new record of 75% off. Big publishers—from Ubisoft, Sega and Sony to 2K and Bethesda—dominate the front page, while indies like Terraria, Satisfactory and Dead Cells share some spotlight. Deep discounts are increasingly predictable as prices ratchet down over time. Instead of buying the obvious picks, I spent Sunday poking through Steam’s surprising trove of forgotten ’90s PC oddities—an often fascinating, sometimes troubling rabbit hole that sits alongside carefully updated reissues like Nightdive’s I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream or D: The Game.
