The picks worth your money from the last week of August on Steam. Warner, Rockstar and Capcom all went on sale at once, so the big titles came down together. A wizarding-school open world that used to run close to ₩80,000 is cut by 90 percent, and Palworld — which left Early Access in July — went on sale barely two months after its 1.0 launch. There's also an Amazon jungle survival trip for less than half a coffee, and a Korean open world that flipped its reception with one huge update six months in. Plus next week's vampire RPG and a Viking survival game finally hitting 1.0 after five years. Prices and end dates are listed below.
A first-person survival game that drops you into the Amazon with nothing. You manage infected wounds, parasites and leeches on top of hunger and thirst, and there's a story mode, a free survival mode and co-op.
₩2,900 — a trip to jungle hell for less than half a coffee
A social deduction game about finding the Impostor hiding among a spaceship crew. Crewmates work through tasks around the ship while the Impostor picks them off one by one.
₩3,300 — a friendship-destroying device
An open-world RPG where you enroll at Hogwarts as a fifth-year, a century before Harry Potter. There's house sorting and classes, wand combat built on blocking and countering, and broom flight.
₩7,980 — a Hogwarts acceptance letter
An asymmetric multiplayer game with one killer hunting four survivors. Survivors repair generators to open the exit while the killer hooks them first, and horror-film IPs have kept arriving for a decade.
₩8,600 — a game of tag that's been running for ten years
An action game that takes you through a zombie-occupied Los Angeles in first-person melee. Blunt weapons and blades matter more than guns, and its signature is dismemberment that peels and cuts exactly where you hit.
₩10,140 — a heavy-duty zombie therapy machine
A co-op shooter set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe where four players push through tight corridors together. Made by Fatshark of Vermintide fame, it alternates between melee and gunplay.
₩11,000 — you're buying the atmosphere and leaving
An open-world survival crafting game where you catch creatures called Pals, send them into battle and put them to work in base factories. It left more than two years of Early Access on July 9, 2026.
₩22,400 — two months after 1.0 and already discounted
A Korean open-world action adventure from Pearl Abyss. You play Kliff of the Greymanes, regrouping scattered survivors across the continent of Pywel, and the Enhanced update six months after launch heavily reworked the main story and cutscenes.
₩63,840 — the price of seeing how far Korean open worlds have come
A dark fantasy action RPG set in 14th-century Europe during the Black Death, where Coen — human by day, vampire by night — sets out to save his kidnapped family. The limit is 30 in-game days, and it's the debut title from Rebel Wolves, founded by core developers of The Witcher 3.
Out Sep 2 — the first game from the studio The Witcher 3 devs built
A co-op survival game that drops you as a Viking into the tenth Norse world to chop wood, build shelter and hunt bosses. It ends an Early Access run that began in February 2021 and launches 1.0 on September 9, arriving with the final biome, the Deep North, plus PS5 and Switch 2 versions.
Out Sep 9 — 1.0 at last, five years on
This is an archive of the Steam sale from the final week of August 2026. The discounts have ended and the prices above are from that time.
Warner, Rockstar and Capcom all entered sales at once, pulling blockbuster prices down together. But the first thing to check in this list isn’t price — it’s whether you can play alone.
Among Us runs on talking. Conversation, not skill, is the actual content, so the gap between playing with friends and with strangers is the widest here.
Dead by Daylight is asymmetric. The one killer and the four survivors do completely different things, so which side you play essentially decides which game you bought.
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is four-player co-op pushing forward as a unit, alternating melee and gunfire, which splits the team into roles.
Green Hell makes you manage not just hunger and thirst but wound infections and parasites. A heavy load if survival is new to you.
Palworld does the opposite — your Pals do the work. Park them in a base factory and things run themselves, so it’s a survival game with far lower management burden.
New to the genre? Start with Palworld.
Crimson Desert Enhanced is a major update released six months after launch, substantially reworking the main story and cutscenes. If you remember its reception at release, the game has changed considerably — judge it by recent reviews.
Similarly, Palworld was in its first sale after finishing more than two years of early access in July.
Titles a few years old — Hogwarts Legacy, Dead Island 2, Darktide — return at similar depths every major sale. Crimson Desert Enhanced and Palworld are more recent, so deeper cuts take longer.
The Blood of Dawnwalker and Valheim at the bottom were upcoming releases, not discounts. Both arrived in September, so reviews are available now.
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