Key Takeaways
- Steam Winter Sale 2024 kicks off on December 19.
- While this date has been known for a while now, the upcoming event now also has a semi-official start time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET.
- Steam Winter Sale 2024 will conclude on January 2, 2025.
December 19 is set to be a big day for PC gamers, marking the start of the Steam Winter Sale 2024. The upcoming Steam promotion is planned to run for two weeks.
Valve announces new Steam sales events periodically, typically several times per year. For the upcoming winter sale, the company confirmed its dates all the way back in February 2024, but did not specify the exact start and end times for the promotion.
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Officially, Valve has yet to commit to specific start and end times for the Steam Winter Sale 2024. But some official-looking artwork seemingly associated with the promotion has recently started circulating on social media, possibly after being scraped by third-party tracker SteamDB, which currently displays it on its “Upcoming events” page. The image depicts Steam’s well-known anime girl—who has long been the de facto mascot of the platform’s sales events—and states that the Steam Winter Sale 2024 is scheduled to begin at 10am PT on December 19. The promotion will run for two consecutive weeks, concluding on January 2.
Steam Winter Sale 2024 Dates
- Start: December 19, 2024, at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET
- End: January 2, 2025, at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET
As per usual, PC gamers can expect a massive amount of discounts from the upcoming promotion. Valve’s track record suggests that some of the Steam Winter Sale 2024 offers will run for the entire duration of the event, while others will be available for shorter periods, ranging from 24 hours to a few days. Checking the storefront on a daily basis is hence recommended for anyone wanting to stay on top of everything of note. That said, the Steam Winter Sale 2023 was fairly front-loaded, offering some of its best deals right from the get-go, so that could end up being the case this year as well. Game Rant will be covering the best deals from the upcoming sale for the duration of the event.
Steam Is Barely Giving Users Time To Recover From Autumn Sale 2024
As has been the case for years now, the latest iteration of the upcoming promo is coming hot on the heels of the Steam Autumn Sale, which ran from November 27 through December 4. Part of the reason why these two events are always so close together presumably has something to do with the fact that consumers generally expect large-scale sales around both Black Friday and Christmas.
The Steam Winter Sale 2024 will mark the platform’s final shopping event of the year. The first promotion of this kind planned for 2025 is the RTS games-dedicated Steam Real Time Strategy Fest, which is scheduled to take place between January 20 and 27.
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