Having lately turned 20, Steam continues to be the cornerstone of PC gaming. In addition to being one – if not the – first online game digital storefront, the platform is infamous for its gross sales and occasions. Subsequent 12 months’s plans are not any totally different.

Whereas there’s a sale nonetheless going for the Steam Deck, Valve introduced its schedule for 2024’s first quarter. A current Valve weblog reveals a schedule of upcoming occasions from January to the start of April subsequent 12 months.

There are some fairly interesting-sounding ones arising as properly. For instance, firstly of 2024, there’s the Steam Capitalism and Financial system Fest, which “focuses on video games which might be about chilly arduous money.” That is adopted by the Pirates vs. Ninjas Fest, which sounds fairly self-explanatory.

You weren’t utilizing that cash for something necessary, proper?

In addition to the above-mentioned fests, there’ll be the standard swathe of occasions within the new 12 months. We’ll nonetheless get the standard seasonal gross sales (summer time is often the massive one), in addition to Subsequent Fest, during which “followers can check out demos, chat with builders, watch livestreams, and study upcoming video games.”

Over time, Steam gross sales grew to become a meme-worthy phenomenon, an occasion infamous for bleeding private funds. You by no means actually know what you’re going to get throughout every occasion, however there’s all the time one thing for everybody.

Many people have been long-time customers of Steam, and even throughout occasions of economic hardship, avid gamers should discover themselves drawn in by discounted gadgets.