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.

If you do pick up the entry-level Steam Deck, you can always upgrade the storage with a Micro SD card or by swapping out the internal SSD for something larger - even a 2TB 2230 drive doesn't run much over £100 these days.

-Will

Parking Garage Rally Circuit: £5.59 after 30 percent discount

If you yearn for the days of arcade-style racing games that let you throw cars around corners in physically unlikely but ultra cool ways, and you miss the low polygon vibe of 32-Bit racers, then I can't recommend this gem of a racer enough. Parking Garage Rally Circuit takes the arcade rally joy found in the likes of old-school Sega Rally and combines it with circuits set within multistorey parking garages. It's one of my favourite racing games of this decade, runs beautifully on the most modest PCs (including Steam Deck), and at this price it makes absolutely no sense not to buy it.

-Tom O

A Way Out: £4.99 after 80 percent discount

If you've got a love for Heat and other cop classics, and a friend you're able to wrangle in for some Co-Op goodness, then you've absolutely got to pick up A Way Out. Developed by Hazelight Studios - current kings of co-op games right now - it's a game packed with drama, emotional moments, and a damn stunning ending sequence that frankly must be experienced. For £5 (or your regional equivalent), it's a steal.

-Connor

Outer Wilds: £11.99 after 40 percent discount

I'll level with you - I've not actually played Outer Wilds...yet! It's one of those games that's been on my backlog for ages, consistently praised not only by my Eurogamer colleagues (it was number three on our Eurogamer 100!) but by every gaming outlet under the sun. I know it's a game I'll enjoy, but it's constantly slipped under my radar. Perhaps now, though, is the time to finally grab it with this latest discount, not to mention its DLC is discounted too (you can get a bundle of both for £18.90, down 38 percent). And if that isn't enough for you, almost every Annapurna-published game is discounted, including Stray, Cocoon, Journey, Sayonara Wild Hearts and loads more. Most of these are available individually for well under a tenner, but you can even buy the lot (29 games!) in one go!

-Ed

MechWarrior 5: Clans: £17.49 after 30 percent discount

MechWarrior 5: Clans tells a brilliant story, as the long-lost armies of Earth return to take back the known universe with their hyper-advanced Battlemechs and weird warrior society. It's a far more focused experience than the more sandboxy (and also-discounted) MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, and makes a perfect entry point to the series for newcomers - or a great return for any old heads that played the earlier games in the 90s and 2000s. If you get it, try adding as many small lasers as you can to a single mech - disintegrating whatever you're looking at in the same instant that your 'mech overheats and shuts itself down always makes me laugh.

-Will

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor: £7.69 after 30 percent discount

Incredibly fun take on the genre pioneered by Vampire Survivors, with enough new ideas and a significantly different visual style to feel fun and fresh. This has been my game of choice on any gaming handheld I've tested over the past month, and I feel like I've only scratched the surface of what's available in this surprisingly deep release.

-Will

Songs of Conquest: £8.09 after 70 percent discount

If you played Heroes of Might and Magic 3 back in the day, Songs of Conquest is the modern equivalent - a turn-based strategy game that blends slow-paced fantasy empire building on vibrant 2D maps with faster grid-based combat between hero-led armies. The game has been lovingly made in the mould of the HoMM series, but it also does enough new to make for some joyful discoveries.

-Will

It's worth pointing out as well that Fanatical and GMG are also running their own autumnal discounts, with GMG offering 15 percent off with code SEP15 and Fanatical undercutting Steam on some games - especially new releases like Silent Hill f, which is £52 on Fanatical versus £70 on Steam. As always, it's worth shopping around to save a bit!