Valve has announced what official events and promotions will take place on the Steam platform in the second half of 2025. The new plan contains one major change compared to the schedules of previous years.
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As it became known, the Steam Autumn Sale will start in 2025 two months earlier than usual – on September 29, although in the past it began at the end of the season: November 27 in 2024, November 21 in 2023, November 22 in 2022.
Valve did not name the reason for the change, but the company probably wants to create a buffer between the fall and winter sales. In 2024, the end of the first and the beginning of the second were separated by only two weeks.
Users were unable to restore the financial balance between the two promotions. The change also distributed large seasonal sales more evenly throughout the year (roughly every three months).
In recent years, the start of the fall sales has coincided with Black Friday.
The schedule for the first half of 2025 presented last summer remains unchanged and is presented below (excluding events that have already been completed):
- February festival “Playing to Be” – from February 24 to March 3;
- Visual novel festival – from March 3 to 10;
- Spring Sale on Steam – from March 13 to March 20;
- Festival of urban planning and colony simulators – from March 24 to 31;
- Sokoban festival (a subgenre of puzzles about arranging boxes) – from April 21 to 28;
- War games festival – from April 28 to May 5;
- Creature Collecting Festival – from May 12 to 19;
- Festival “Zombies vs. Vampires” – from May 26 to June 2;
- June festival “Playing to Be” – from June 9 to 16;
- Fishing festival – from June 16 to 23;
- Summer Sale on Steam – from June 26 to July 10.
In the second half of 2025, Steam users can look forward to the following official events:
- Automation Festival – July 14-21;
- Racing Festival – from July 28 to August 4;
- 4X Games Festival – August 11-18;
- Third Person Shooter Festival – August 25 to September 1;
- Political simulation festival – from September 8 to 15;
- Steam Autumn Sale – September 29 – October 6;
- October festival “Garam byt” – from October 13 to 20;
- «Fears on Steam 4″ – from October 27 to November 3;
- Animal Games Festival – November 10-17;
- Sports Festival – from December 8 to 15;
- Steam Winter Sale – from December 18, 2025 to January 5, 2026.
As always, Valve reserves the right to revise the schedule or list of events, but such adjustments are rare once the schedule is published.