March feels like one of the busiest months for games in a while, with heavy hitters like Slay the Spire 2, Crimson Desert, Monster Hunter Stories 3, and Timberborn already filling up my library. If you’re on the hunt for something new to play at a bargain price, however, the Steam Spring Sale is here for you. With huge discounts on some of the best PC games from big to small, Valve has loaded its shelves with an almost impossible selection to choose from.
To help you find your next favorite game, I’ve picked out ten highlights from the current Steam sale. These include some recent winners, popular picks among the PCGamesN staff, hidden gems you might have overlooked, and savings that are just too good to pass up. I’ve tried to spread my recommendations out across a wide range of genres, so whatever type of games appeal to you, you’ll find something to grab – just make sure to do so by Thursday March 26, when the current round of Steam discounts end.
Dispatch: 20% off – $23.99 / £19.99
Flying onto our 2025 Game of the Year list at the last minute, AdHoc’s superhero tale puts you in the shoes of once-hero Robert Robertson III, consigned to a special project at the Superhero Dispatch Network. His goal, and yours, is to turn a group of power-wielding villains into the finest squad of saviors the world has ever seen. Along the way comes plenty of brash humor, fantastic performances from an eclectic cast, and even a pair of romance options that have split the community straight down the middle. The spirit of Telltale at its finest lives on in this one.
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2: 50% off – $29.99 / £24.99
Another big winner among our staff, KCD2 is one of the most rich and immersive open worlds I’ve ever experienced. As Henry of Skalitz, your 15th-century road trip with bestie Sir Hans is thrown into chaos, leaving you with only your wits and plucky attitude. This frees you up to do, well, just about anything you want, really. Play the hero and rescue someone’s kidnapped daughter, get drunk with the locals and wind up taking a sinister midnight trek into the woods, or lose hours gambling away your hard-earned coin playing dice. For every corner you turn, Warhorse’s remarkably deep medieval-life sim always has something to find, someone to meet, or a story to tell, and it’ll keep putting a smile on your face.
Routine: 20% off – $19.99 / £26.79
One PCGamesN top-ten entrant you might have missed from 2025 is Routine, which nestles your investigation into an abandoned moon base in a delicious ’80s retro-future aesthetic. With threats you can’t simply take on, and a deliberately limited amount of direction, Lunar Software delivers all the best elements of Alien Isolation in a much tighter package. Its scares rely more on atmosphere, loneliness, and sound design than overwhelming you with gore and gristle, and the result is the best horror game of last year.
Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader: 60% off – $19.99 / £17.19
If Baldur’s Gate 3 fired up your taste for CRPGs, or you’re just a Warhammer 40k fiend in general, Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader is a must. Owlcat Games sinks you deep into the lore with a memorable cast of companions, and forces you to make plenty of tough choices with notable consequences. Its character-building and tactical combat strike an excellent balance between moments of power fantasy and desperate struggles for survival. For all the brutal bombast of Space Marine 2, the sheer depth on offer makes Rogue Trader the definitive 40k experience to date for me.
Maze Mice: 50% off – $4.99 / £4.49
We’ve seen a ton of ‘bullet heaven’ roguelites in recent years, and Maze Mice is among the very best of them. It comes from Dan Dilorio at Trampoline Tales, who boasts the unique honor of his previous game, Luck Be a Landlord, acting as the main inspiration for Balatro developer ‘Localthunk.’ Maze Mice is every bit as compelling. It brings together maps and lengthy pursuing enemy chains straight out of Pac-Man, the rapid-escalation upgrade system of Vampire Survivors, and Superhot’s ‘time moves only when you do’ sauce.
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown: 50% off – $14.99 / £12.49
I don’t need to tell you to buy Hollow Knight: Silksong, but I do need you to play Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, because not nearly enough of you did. Ubisoft Montpellier’s stylish action-platformer is one of the best Metroidvanias in recent years, and the Prince’s finest outing. Its platforming challenges are demanding but never frustrating, making fantastic use of the series’ signature time-bending potential, and its combat delivers a blend of gleeful juggle combos, explosive parries, and intense boss showdowns. Plus it gave us the ability to photograph a scene and pin it on your map, a feature that should be standard everywhere.
Blue Prince: 34% off – $19.79 / £14.84
Permit me one final dip into 2025, because I couldn’t bear to leave Blue Prince off this list. A narrow second place for me and for our team in the GOTY stakes, Dogubomb’s house-shuffling mystery feels innovative and refreshing. It’s a slow burn, but one that is careful to drip fuel onto the fire at just the right moments. One more puzzle to solve. Another route you might be able to open if you find the right item. A tantalizing piece of lore. Then, when you think you’ve reached its climax, Blue Prince unfurls into a second, deeper, and even more intricate web for those that crave it. One year on, and I can’t put it out of my mind.
Dungeons of Hinterberg: 66% off – $7.81 / £6.45
As spring rolls in and the weather turns, what better than a relaxing getaway? Dungeons of Hinterberg takes burnt-out student Luisa on a trip to the Austrian Alps. The appearance of magical dungeons across the region has turned this once-quiet village into a tourist hotspot as eager adventurers line up to partake in its gauntlet of machinery and monsters. Equipped with a set of distinctive powers, it’s an adventure that most closely reminds me of the incredible Okami, but then sprinkles it with the political intrigue of a government that might be putting profits over the potential safety of its paying customers. I absolutely loved it.
Star Wars Jedi Survivor: 90% off – $6.99 / £5.99
At such a deep discount, now’s a great time to join Cal Kestis and the crew of the Mantis on their second outing in Star Wars Jedi Survivor. Much like its predecessor, Survivor is a game that delivers the Jedi power fantasy in spades, giving you even more Force powers and lightsaber fighting styles to play around with. It also does one of my favorite things that Star Wars games can do, which is to delve further out of the realm of familiarity and dig into the deeper, darker corners of the galaxy far, far away.
Dread Delusion: 50% off – $9.99 / £7.74
We should end on something a little more obscure than Star Wars, and Dread Delusion is the perfect fit. If you crave the days of Morrowind, this Lovely Hellplace RPG is absolutely tugging on the heartstrings of classic Elder Scrolls fans. Its gameplay doesn’t set the world on fire, but with a world this inviting to explore it simply doesn’t need to. Trudge across its vibrant land under the light of a shattered sky, where you’ll face mysterious encounters, fight bizarre foes, uncover occult secrets, and explore a narrative touching on tough themes that will stick in your head long after it’s over.
The Steam Spring Sale runs from Thursday March 19 until Thursday March 26. Hopefully those suggestions have given you plenty to think about, but if you’ve got any other hidden gems I’d always love to hear about them.
