Balatro | $13.49 (10% off) | 🏆 |
A roguelike deckbuilder phenomenon and our 2024 GOTY. Slightly more expensive than it was in the Spring Sale.

Helldivers 2 | $31.99 (20% off) | 🏆 |
The typical discount for Helldivers 2. The hype has died down, but it remains one of our favorite co-op shooters, and the has sparked a resurgence in popularity, despite technical troubles.

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl | $41.99 (30% off) | 🏆 |
Stalker 2 was worth the wait. "It might be shinier and it might have gamepad support, but Stalker 2 is still Stalker down to its bones," said Josh in .

Caves of Qud | $25.49 (15% off) 🔺| 🏆 |
Many years in the making, Caves of Qud is a sensational and delightfully weird RPG that Jon called "a genre-defining achievement in play, story, and roleplaying freedom" in .

Metaphor: ReFantazio | $38.49 (45% off) 💸 | 🏆 |
This is the lowest price yet for one of our favorite recent RPGs. "Metaphor is the best game I've played all year. Though not strictly speaking part of the Persona series, it's also the best Persona game," Fraser said when we awarded it Best RPG 2024.

UFO 50 | $18.74 (25% off) 💸 | 🏆 |
A collection of 50 classic games from a defunct—and entirely made-up—developer of 8-bit games. UFO 50 is a collaborative project by six indie devs, including Spelunky creator Derek Yu.

Manor Lords | $25.99 (35% off) | 🏆 |
It's still in early access, but that didn't stop us from calling Manor Lords the best city builder of last year.

Pacific Drive | $14.99 (50% off) | 🏆 |
Discover what station wagon owners have known all along: that a car can be your best friend. this supernatural survival roadtrip, and declared its car "one of the best vehicles in videogames, ever."

Tactical Breach Wizards | $13.99 (30% off) | 🏆 |
Use [[link]] magic, but tactically in the latest from Gunpoint creator (and PC Gamer alum) Tom Francis. "Of all of the games Tom Francis has made about throwing people out of windows, this is the best one," .

Thank Goodness You're Here! | $11.99 (40% off) 💸 | 🏆 |
"The funniest game I've played," Fraser said in , and Fraser has played a lot of games, and I imagine quite a lot them have also been funny, which tells you this one ought to be pretty funny.

Satisfactory | $27.99 (30% off) | 🏆 |
This automation game has been one of our favorites for years. The base price increased when it left early access in 2024, so this isn't the lowest price it's ever hit, but it's probably as low as it'll go in the near future.

Peak | $6.39 (20% [[link]] off) 💸 | |
Peak doesn't cost much to begin with, so this 20% discount only knocks off a buck-sixty, but hey, less money is less money—pick it up four copies with friends and you'll have collectively saved $6.40! Enough for a low-quality sandwich to share.

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor | $9.09 (30% off) 💸| |
This Deep Rock spin-off is obviously another Vampire Survivors imitator, but one done very well: "Vampire Survivors is no longer the king of the genre," Robin said in .

Mouthwashing | $9.09 (30% off) 💸| |
One of the best horror games of 2024. "I played Mouthwashing entirely in one sitting back in October and had to lie down for a while afterward to recover," Ted said in his review.

Lethal Company | $7.49 (25% off) 💸| |
A new low price for the co-op horror sensation from 2023, which got in June which added a new monster, the Giant Sapsucker. Sounds pretty safe, it all it's interested in is sap, right?

Sons of the Forest | $9.89 (67% off) 💸| |
A new low price for the popular follow-up to The Forest. Sons of the Forest drops you on a remote island full of cannibals, although Sarah .

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | $7.99 (80% off) | 🏆 |
The Witcher 3 is discounted often, but this is the lowest it generally goes for. Take the plunge: The water's still warm even after this year.

Control Ultimate Edition | $3.99 (90% off) |🏆 |
We've arguably got a bit of a soft spot for Remedy at PC Gamer, but I think I'm safe in saying that you'll get your $4 worth and then some from Control. Remedy's 2019 singleplayer action-adventure game is full of great SCP-style supernatural worldbuilding.

Civilization 6 | $5.99 (90% off)🔺|
released earlier this year, but a lot of Civ fans are sticking with Civ 6 (or Civ 5) for now, so you're actually getting the currently most popular Civ game for $6 here. (It was just $3 in the last sale, and might hit that again for the Winter Sale.)