Valve Launches Steam Autumn Sale and Starts Vote for 2020 Steam Awards Nominees

Barrie Moore -

The traditional autumn sale of games has started on the Steam online store - the promotion will last only a week. It will end on December 1 at 10 a.m Pacific, so discount fans should hurry up to have time to sort out all the offers and replenish their collection with the most cherished titles.

With discounts up to 90%, many good games are available on the special promotion page, including fresh AAA titles. In total, almost 39 000 are participating in the sale.

The selection of discounted games from the Steam Autumn Sale:

  • Assassin's Creed games - up to 80% off
  • Black Mesa - 50% discount
  • Borderlands 3 - 67% discount
  • Cloudpunk - 33% discount
  • Control Ultimate Edition - 50% discount
  • Crusader Kings III - 20% discount
  • Death Stranding - 50% discount
  • DOOM Eternal - 67% discount
  • Fall Guys - 20% discount
  • Destiny 2: Forsaken - 50% off
  • Destiny 2: Shadowkeep - 50% off
  • Gears 5 - 75% discount
  • Hades - 20% discount
  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection - 35% off
  • Mafia: Definitive Edition - 25% off
  • Ori and the Will of the Wisps - 50% discount
  • Persona 4 Golden - 20% discount
  • Red Dead Redemption 2 - 33% off
  • Resident Evil 3 - 67% discount
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - 35% discount
  • Serious Sam 4 - 20% discount
  • Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order - 60% discount
  • The Sims 4 - 88% off

The full list of participating games can be found here. Also, you can use the SteamDB discount tracking tool.

In 2020, The Steam Awards will feature ten nominations, but only games released after December 3, 2019, when the previous Steam Autumn Sale took place, can be nominated in nine categories. Any already released games can be offered in the Labor of Love Award category, except for previous years' winners (Warframe and GTA V).

For voting in the qualifying stage of The Steam Awards 2020, you can receive a special badge and increase its level by fulfilling the necessary conditions - to nominate at least one game, propose nominees in each category, play a nominated game or write a review of it.

Voting for The Steam Awards 2020 nominees will occur at the Steam Winter Sale, with the winners announced on January 3.

The Steam Awards 2020 nominations:

  • Game of the Year Award
  • VR Game of the Year Award
  • Labor of Love Award
  • Better With Friends Award
  • Outstanding Visual Style Award
  • Most Innovative Gameplay Award
  • Best Game You Suck at Award
  • Best Soundtrack Award
  • Outstanding Story-Rich Game Award
  • Sit Back and Relax Award