Steam Summer Sale: This is how the offers work

With the Steam Summer Sale, the largest online games retailer is again offering numerous offers and discounts for popular games - we will explain when the offers change and what needs to be considered.

Daily offers at the Steam Summer Sale - new bargains every day

Steam, the largest online retailer of computer games, regularly starts huge promotions for bargain hunters. Approximately 9 games are heavily reduced every evening at 7:00 p.m. within 11 days. You can find these daily offers directly on the shop's homepage.

• It is worthwhile for game fans to drop by every day: discounts of up to 80% are possible with daily offers.
• If you've ever missed a bargain, you can catch up on the last day of sales (June 30, 2014). On this day, all offers from the previous days are available again.

Flash offers - you decide on the next games

The so-called flash offers work a little differently: They change every 8 hours and can be influenced directly by you as a Steam user. Because as a registered Steam user you have the opportunity to choose between two different offers with four games each. The selection with the most votes will then also be offered for 8 hours on the homepage (a little further down).

• The discounts in the Blitz offers are similar to the daily offers: The games are reduced by up to 85%.
• Sometimes parts of a flash offer are on other days in the daily offer - if you miss one, you can still save a lot.

Other offers - (almost) all of Steam is reduced

Should your dream game not be found in the daily and flash offers, you can still hope for substantial discounts: Almost all Steam games are reduced in price during the summer sales. Although these discounts are not as strong as in the special offers - you can still expect 20-30 percent savings at the original price.

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