Steam Summer Sale features savings on some of 2026's best video games

Steam's latest sale event began last week. The Summer Sale includes too many discounts to count, from basically getting Disco Elysium for free when bundled with Zero Parades: For Dead Spies to a 70% markdown for CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077.

Newer games get in on the action too, as some of 2026's best games have their deepest discounts yet. Here are a few of our favorite games from the year that you'll find discounted during Steam's Summer Sale.

1 Mio: Memories in Orbit

Image: Douze Dixièmes/Focus Entertainment

While January can sometimes be a slow month for new video game releases, this year it had a handful of standout new titles, the best of which was Mio: Memories in Orbit. It's a gorgeous Metroidvania that is equal parts breathtaking to look at and exciting to play. You control an android grappling, wall-jumping, and fighting against tough enemies (and even tougher bosses) throughout a mysterious spaceship. "[Mio] is committed to the act of exploration to a surgical degree. To survive its ship full of rogue machines is to become a digital cadaver of a gorgeously intricate digital world," Polygon wrote in its review. It's on sale for 25% off at $14.99.

2 Mewgenics

Image: Edmund McMillen, Tyler Glaiel

The Binding of Isaac developer Edmund McMillen is back this year with Mewgenics, which is exactly what you would expect from a game with that title — its main mechanic is breeding "the ultimate cat army," according to its Steam description. You'll send them out on Roguelike runs full of turn-based battles. Your cats can be outfitted with collars that turn them into specific classes, like a Fighter or Mage, and each class has 75 abilities to test out. "It’s a true feat for a game to walk the line between juvenile and complex, and Mewgenics does it deftly," our Mewgenics review said. You can grab it for 25% off at $22.49 and get plenty of bang for your buck; Mewgenics teases (threatens?) a 200-hour main campaign.

3 Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined

Dragon Quest 7 is one of the best RPGs ever, and a new generation of players can experience it with the 2026 remake. Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined takes the 2D sprites and environments of the original game and, well, reimagines them in a 3D world with diorama-like visuals. Both its battles and story have been streamlined, speeding up the action and trimming the fat that makes the original game a bloated (while still great!) adventure. "Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined is a faithful, gorgeously polished remake that serves longtime fans and offers a perfect entry point into the franchise for newcomers," our review said. Grab it on sale for $44.99, or 25% off.

Also on sale from the cream of 2026's crop are Resident Evil Requiem ($55.99, 20% off), Marathon ($27.99, 30% off), Esoteric Ebb ($19.99, 20% off), Titanium Court ($11.99, 20% off), and more.

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