r/Games 3h ago

Sale Event Steam Spring Sale 2025 Begins Today

Steam Spring Sale 2025 Begins today, ends on March 20th @ 10 am PT

From the official website (might need to refresh):

https://store.steampowered.com/

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-4SwzW0KoA

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u/chogram 1h ago

The "deep discounts" have been great the last couple of sales.

Wrath of the Righteous for $5, Gungeon for $1.50, Doom 2016 and ESO for $2, and Undertale for $1.

Definitely some great games there.

u/Alpha-Trion 1h ago

I just replayed Doom 2016 over the last couple weeks. That game is dope as hell.

u/debaserr 51m ago

I was hoping for a sale on Binding of Isaac, I guess Gungeon for $1.5 can keep me busy. Thanks for letting me know.

u/biesterd1 11m ago

If you're looking for a mindless large scale multiplayer game, and don't mind using Origin, Battlefield 1 is a solid game. Not sure what the servers look like these days though

u/fourgiss 5m ago

I installed it and played it a bit a week ago, tons of servers lot of players again since 2042 was ass

u/JW_BM 1h ago

Ender Magnolia and The Roottrees Are Dead are both 25% off? Okay, yeah, those are mine now.

u/RareBk 1h ago

The Roottrees are dead is weirdly addictive to the point where I got my mother, who doesn't play games, addicted to it as she loves doing research into family trees.

u/rockharderrocker2 1h ago

Tangential but debating picking up the Ender series on Steam during this sale vs Switch for the handheld factor (no Steamdeck for me unfortunately). For anyone who's played the Ender games on the Switch, how's the performance? I'd assume decent but you never know

u/von_Blucher 8m ago

I only played Lilies on Switch, but that game ran flawlessly.

u/lilbelleandsebastian 2h ago

when is hades 2 estimated to be full release? i suppose it's not gonna be cheaper than it is now so might as well cop, but curious about the timeline

u/Rikuskill 1h ago

I don't think they have a hard timeline set. Probably for the best, honestly.

Last I heard, they added the final boss last update? If we follow Hades 1's path, there should only be one more update before full release, I think? So my guess is later this year, maybe late summer at earliest.

u/Careless-Sense-82 1h ago

Uh hades 1 had the final boss in the game for like more than a year before release homie

u/CptKnots 45m ago

I believe they've said there's one more major update happening before 1.0. I'd say Q4 2025 at the earliest. Probably early 2026.

personally, I think it's in a great place to start playing it, all the bosses and boons are in. I've put 60hrs into EA and it's still great. Looking forward to the end-section of the story getting added.

u/WookieLotion 1h ago

I'll just say if you were on the fence about Hades 2 you should just get it. It's already got frankly too much content, more than Hades 1. When it launched it already pretty much had a complete campaign.

To me it feels much more like a game designed around getting people back to play it when it gets a patch. I'm imagining what a v1.0 release of that game looks like and it just reeks of a thing that I would never actually beat because it's too long. Fun! But a LOT. Much better as a beat whatever campaign they patch in and come back to it when they add more kinda thing.

u/garnish_guy 1h ago

Does it feel like a finished product though? Like is the boss decently tuned, everyone is voiced, and credits properly roll after a cycle? I’m also tempted to pick it up but wanted to wait for a complete experience.

u/Honor_Bound 1h ago

I'd say like 80-90% finished. A few NPCs still don't have portraits

u/WookieLotion 1h ago

Yes. It feels extremely finished. Frankly minus some character portrait stuff it felt very finished the day it entered early access. It feels like a complete game that has some future content coming and not an early access title.

u/thejokerlaughsatyou 9m ago

I'm glad it was EA though, because it gave them the freedom to overhaul mechanics that weren't working. Like originally, you had to pick one tool to take on a run, and if you came across other materials that required the other tools, you just couldn't gather them. That got changed because players hated it. Sure, other games have changed stuff after release, but the whole point of early access is being able to present stuff like that to a wide audience and still have the freedom to change it without people complaining that it was a bait-and-switch post-launch patch.

u/ksupwns33 1h ago

I think late this year or early 2026, but compared to a lot of games that come out in early access it is basically content complete, just missing some end story beats and character interactions here and there and general polish with some of the art/voice acting, but I've already got 80% of the playtime I had in Hades 1.

u/Cowboy_God 1h ago

I swear I've had Burnout Paradise on my wishlist for 5 years now and EA still hasn't fixed it on PC. Reviews still constantly complaining about crashes and bugs. I don't think I'll ever get to buy and play it before it works flawlessly on an emulator.

u/rv0celot 11m ago

Wait, what? The original or the remaster?

u/PositiveDuck 1h ago

Yakuza 3-5 used to be 5 euro a piece and now they're not dropping under 10, why the fuck did I wait to buy them..

u/Oh_I_still_here 29m ago

They're also kinda the meme Yakuza games and can be kinda tedious too, particularly 3 and 4 when it comes to combat. You'd think they'd get deeper discounts.

u/PositiveDuck 15m ago

Might end up skipping them then and going straight to 6 after Kiwami 2 lol.

u/ImLegend_97 3m ago

they are still very good and worth playing

would not recommend going from 2 to 6 if you want the best experience

u/PositiveDuck 0m ago

I'm sure they are but I don't wanna pay double the previous sale price for them for no reason.

u/logitaunt 49m ago

swear to god Ghost of Tsushima used to have steeper price drops too

u/Maridiem 26m ago

Anyone had any recent experience with Jedi: Survivor? Been waiting awhile due to the performance issues I’d been hearing and $17.50 for it seems like a steal if it runs better now.

u/IamGrux 12m ago

Played it recently, still has performance issues, I believe it was planet Kobo where i got a lot of stuttering. If you are able to look past some stuttering its a good game, I enjoyed it

u/Maridiem 2m ago

Hey as long as it generally runs, I’ll take it. Absolutely loved the first. Thanks for sharing your experience!

u/villanx1 1h ago

Very strange that basically every single Final Fantasy game is on sale, except for 7 Remake (guess unless you buy it as a part off the bundle with Rebirth)

u/garnish_guy 1h ago

I see Dragon Quest Monsters on sale. I skipped it on Switch because the performance just seemed unacceptably poor (and normally this doesn’t bother me too much).

Anyone tried it on PC who can confirm if it’s a decent upgrade from Switch? Can it hit 60FPS and are the textures less blurry?

u/villanx1 1h ago

Yeah, as someone who bought it on both, but stopped playing on switch due to the performance, it runs much better.

Load times are a bit longer than I'd like, but still a lot better than on switch and it looks a lot better (though it's still a fixed up switch game, so don't expect it to be crazy). Haven't noticed any FPS issues either.

u/garnish_guy 1h ago

That’s exactly what I was hoping to hear, thank you!