{"id":1706509,"date":"2026-10-01T18:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eahGzphgXSX5rwawKsXxMK"},"modified":"2026-10-01T18:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:45:26","slug":"you-can-now-buy-more-than-2000-games-for-5-or-less-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/you-can-now-buy-more-than-2000-games-for-5-or-less-on-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"You can now buy more than 2,000 games for $5 or less on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time<\/a>.<\/h2>\n
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You know the drill<\/strong>. Deep discounts up the wazoo, stickers to earn, and new stuff in the Points Shop<\/a>, all of it adding up to Valve-powered seasonal trauma inflicted on your personal finances. <\/p>\n

And I know what you’re thinking: Are there really more than 2,000 games for under $5 in the Autumn Sale? And the answer is “yes,” or in that neighborhood, anyway. If you hit the “sales” option on the eternally handy SteamDB website<\/a>, you can apply all sorts of filters to narrow things down as you like. Set the maximum price on the right-hand menu at $5, and blammo, there you go. (Hey, if it was hard, I wouldn’t be doing it.)<\/p>\n

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The one bump in this road is that SteamDB is getting hammered right now, so the price update queue is a bit jammed: The site says there are 2,105 games currently discounted, but I don’t want to commit to that 100% just in case it’s off<\/em>. You can perform similar magic on Steam itself while browsing games via the price slider, but it actually gives me a lower number\u20141,243 discounted games, to be specific. I think it may be filtering more stringently, though. <\/p>\n

In any event, it’s a whole lotta deals, and the sheer volume of discounts on Steam means that some of these deeply-cheap games\u2014maybe even a lot of ’em\u2014probably aren’t top-tier stuff. You might therefore want to apply more filters: You can set genre and feature tags, release dates, a minimum user rating or number of reviews, and all sorts of other things to winnow it out a bit. I like browsing as much as the next guy, but 2,105 games is a lot to dig through.<\/p>\n

Alternate idea: PC Gamer’s Ted Litchfield previously put together a list of 31 must-play games going for $5 or less in the Steam Summer Sale, and I’m going to see if I can bully him into doing it again. No promises, but Ted’s a pretty good guy, and his taste in games is solid too. (Just please don’t get him talking about Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.)<\/p>\n

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