Street Fighter 6 and Silent Hill 2 headline Steam’s 2026 Golden Week sales

Steam’s 2026 Golden Week sale may look a bit naked in comparison with earlier years, with main publishers like Sq. Enix discounting a grand complete of nothing. However there’s nonetheless a wide array of fantastic latest video games up for grabs at good reductions. The sale is dwell now by way of Could 4, although a number of publishers have set their reductions to run till Could 5 or Could 6, relying on the sport.

Road Fighter 6

Street Fighter 6 is that uncommon combating sport the place newcomers really stand an opportunity at studying how you can play earlier than getting demolished in on-line matches. World Tour, SF 6‘s single-player mode, does an admirable job of educating you extra than simply primary strikes, and if the essential and superior strikes offer you hassle, you may swap management modes to search out one which fits you higher. There are an virtually overwhelming variety of playable characters and playstyles to tinker with, together with a number of designed particularly for newcomers.

Road Fighter 6 is on sale for $19.99. There’s additionally a free demo if you wish to test it out first.

Silent Hill f

Silent Hill f was considered one of our favorite games of 2025, and it is discounted to $34.99 throughout Konami’s Golden Week sale. Higurashi and Umineko author Ryukishi07 places their signature twist on Silent Hill through the use of it to discover the claustrophobia of small-town residing and the hellish expectations positioned on girls in rural Japan through the Nineteen Sixties. They’ve explored these themes in earlier visible novels, however by no means in such a compact, intense method as he does in Silent Hill f. You may have to play through multiple times to see the total story, nevertheless it’s well worth the repetition.

Silent Hill 2 remake

If traditional Silent Hill is extra your factor, you may get the gussied-up remake of James Sunderland’s messed-up journey towards the reality for $34.99. Bloober Crew’s Silent Hill 2 remake expands on a few of the authentic’s weaker moments — Maria has an precise persona and story arc, for instance — and offers the entire thing a Resident Evil-style makeover when it comes to fight and puzzle-solving. We heartily recommended it as one of 2024’s essential games.

Ys 8: Lacrimosa of Dana

Motion-adventure RPGs do not get a lot better than Ys 8: Lacrimosa of Dana. It is a bit like Misplaced, in that it follows a shipwrecked group of vacationers on an odd island populated by dinosaurs and different creatures that should not exist. There’s additionally a serial killer thriller, a little bit of group constructing, crude-but-lovable sailors, and a few of the long-running Ys sequence’ finest fight design. What’s extra, since it is a Nihon Falcom sport, there’s a world-ending calamity simply over the horizon that culminates in a spectacular conclusion. The soundtrack’s an authorized banger, too.

Ys 8 is on sale for $19.99.

Danganronpa: Set off Completely satisfied Havoc

For those who performed the brilliant Last Defense Academy and questioned why Darumi saved mentioning killing video games, Danganronpa: Set off Completely satisfied Havoc is the explanation. An evil teddy bear kidnaps a bunch of children, places them at school collectively, and forces them to kill one another for his personal amusement — or die attempting to flee. Your job is investigating your friends, choosing aside their lies within the hopes of stopping a dying or determining who completed it when the murders inevitably begin taking place. It is a weird game, however that is a part of its attraction. You possibly can seize Set off Completely satisfied Havoc for $9.99.

Dragon’s Dogma 2

Capcom’s weird open-world journey goes for $29.39 throughout Steam’s Golden Week sale. It isn’t an amazing alternative if you need deep (or coherent) darkish fantasy storytelling, however when you’re into deep and troublesome to parse gameplay, rewarding fight, and in depth character-building potential, it is easy to miss Dragon’s Dogma 2‘s narrative idiosyncrasies. Largely.

Steins;Gate Elite

Steins;Gate Elite asks the seemingly ridiculous query, “What when you may change the previous with a microwave?” and turns it into among the best visible novels of the previous 10 years. It is a dizzying swirl of conspiracies, deluded tech bros, shut friendships, and darkish tragedy that by some means by no means feels farfetched, regardless of how far it stretches the idea of likelihood. The Elite model goes for $17.99 throughout Golden Week and contains some new animations for sure ending scenes. Although when you’re fantastic with the unique (it nonetheless holds up completely nicely), that one’s discounted to $8.99.

Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society

This one’s for the true dungeon crawler sickos. Moon Society is dense, however rewarding. You’ve got received as much as 40 characters to wrangle throughout any expedition and numerous potential staff combos, courses, and abilities to experiment with — it is so much. The dungeons are so much as nicely, in a great way. They’re full of traps and monsters and all of the belongings you’d count on from an excellent crawler. You even have random occasions to deal with and might even bust down partitions to make your personal paths. Galleria‘s story is a type of that takes 20+ hours earlier than it actually will get going, however between the narrative payoff and simply how good dungeon exploration is, it is nicely well worth the gradual burn.

You possibly can seize Moon Society for $29.99 through the Steam sale. Its older, barely much less polished (however nonetheless glorious) predecessor, Coven of Dusk, can also be on sale for $9.99.