The picks worth your money from the fourth week of Steam deals. Atlus, Total War and Warhorse all went on sale at once, so the big titles came down together. A post-apocalyptic trek across Russia for the price of a coffee, a decade-old city builder that still gives your streets arteriosclerosis, and a medieval open world whose greatest strength is also its worst flaw. Plus this week's soulslike release and the project an Assassin's Creed creator spent fifteen years reclaiming. Prices and end dates are listed below.
Shotgun Russian roulette against a dealer in a basement bar. The live rounds and blanks are counted out in front of you, and the only choice left is whether to aim at him or at your own head.
₩1,700 — a heart attack for less than a cup of coffee
A post-apocalyptic FPS in which survivors leave the subway and cross Russia aboard a single train, the Aurora. Based on a Russian novel, with the seasons turning as you travel.
₩4,560 — the cost of leaving the subway and crossing Russia
The city builder that took the throne SimCity left empty. You can draw curved roads freely and pile on Workshop assets, but the real adversary isn't disasters or budgets — it's traffic.
₩9,900 — buying a traffic jam that hasn't cleared in ten years
A JRPG about transferring to foggy, rural Inaba and living there for exactly one year. School and part-time jobs by day, fighting inside the TV by night. It's the only entry set in the countryside and the only one that's openly a murder mystery.
₩9,900 for one year of small-town school life
A roguelike about hauling four heroes over the mountains in a stagecoach. It drops the first game's dungeon round trips for a journey, and minds break before bodies do — your party starts insulting each other.
₩13,020 — they say it gets fun after ten hours
A management sim where you rule a Caribbean island across four eras, from colonial times to the present. Sell rum, send pirates to steal the Statue of Liberty, and adjust the ballot boxes when approval dips.
₩14,700 for an island nation — the governing is on you
A turn-based RPG set in Hawaii where you swap jobs mid-fight. The party splits between two leads, Ichiban and Kiryu, and side content like Dondoko Island and Sujimon rivals the main story in volume.
₩19,950 — in Hawaii, a yakuza throws pigeons
An open-world RPG set in 15th-century Bohemia, with no magic and no dragons. You eat when hungry, villagers dislike you when you don't wash, and napping in someone else's bed gets you chased for trespassing.
₩24,320 — the pro and the con are the same: you get to live the Middle Ages
The new project from Patrice Désilets, who created Assassin's Creed. Conceived at Ubisoft and buried for fifteen years in a rights dispute, it follows someone accused of witchcraft in 17th-century Amsterdam.
Early Access Aug 25 — the sealed project an Assassin's Creed creator took fifteen years to reclaim
A soulslike with no stamina bar. Instead you get Harden — your body turns to stone right before a hit, deflecting it into a counter — and you swap between eight fallen warriors' bodies, each changing your health, weapons and skills outright.
A soulslike that scrapped stamina — instead you turn to stone right before the hit
This is an archive of the Steam sale from the fourth week of August 2026. The discounts have ended and the prices above are from that time.
Atlus, Total War and Warhorse all entered sales at once, pulling blockbuster prices down together. The result was four turn-based games in one list — none of them after the same thing.
Persona 4 Golden is really about a single year rather than its combat. School and part-time work by day, dungeon by night — a fixed rhythm with a clear beginning and end.
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is an action series that turned turn-based. Job-swapping and minigames sit on top, so it isn’t a game to choose on combat alone.
Darkest Dungeon II uses turns to depict minds breaking down. Crucially, it’s structurally different from the first game — it dropped the dungeon round-trips for a journey, so loving the original doesn’t automatically carry over.
Buckshot Roulette is a ₩1,700 single-session game. It shows you the live and blank counts up front, making it a probability standoff — a completely different sitting time from the other three.
Cities: Skylines offers enormous freedom — draw curved roads however you like, stack workshop assets — but the thing that actually torments you is always traffic.
Tropico 6 instead moves through eras, from colonial times to the present, with politics to handle. It’s closer to administration than to urban aesthetics.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II makes eating and washing central rules, and that’s the appeal. It’s also exactly what some players can’t tolerate. Opinions here don’t diverge on different things — they diverge on the same thing.
Cities: Skylines and Tropico 6 have repeated the same discount band for years, so there’s little reason to rush. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II and Infinite Wealth are more recent, so deeper cuts take longer.
1666: Amsterdam and Mortal Shell II at the bottom were unreleased then; they have reviews now.
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