Steam Spring Sale 2023: best games to get with a discount

Our writers pick out a few discounted gems from Steam Spring Sale 2023

The Steam Spring Sale 2023 has begun and offers juicy discounts on some fantastic PC games as well as Valve’s Steam Deck. There is a huge amount of video games on offer during any sale on Steam, which is great for covering a wide range of tastes.

At the same time this vast amount of choice can be a bit overwhelming – so we thought we’d help you out by having our writers pick out some of the best games to buy during Steam Spring Sale 2023 at a discounted price.

Disco Elysium – GY

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Plenty of games will tell you that your choices matter, but just like Mass Effect’s red, green, and blue endings, these often have little outcome on the game. Disco Elysium takes a different approach to how our choices work. Whether you decide to sweet talk your way past a guard, or smash his face into the dirt, both options are equally valid. You play as an amnesiac cop, and he is whatever you make him.

You can invest in different stats that will give you better chances at certain ways of doing things, but in the end it's all down to the roll of a dice. If anything of this is confusing to you, perfect. You’re ready to play Disco Elysium. The adventure of a man with no name, solving a murder in a town not really in France.

Steam Spring Sale 2023 features a 75% discount on Disco Elysium – The Final Cut.

The Nonary Games – GY

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Nonary Games is literally two games for the price of one, but really it’s 30. Both 999 and Virtue’s Last Reward have choices that lead you down different timelines. Each decision you make sends you down a different series of events, and something you learn in one timeline could help you out as you enter another.

As you try to escape the facilities you find yourself confined in, you get more questions than you do answers. What the Nonary Games does best is giving you a riddle that feels unsolvable, then following it up with that beautiful moment of realization when it all makes sense.

Steam Spring Sale 2023 features a 60% discount on The Nonary Games.

Victoria 3 – MW

From Paradox Interactive, the masters of grand strategy, came the highly-anticipated third entry into the Victoria series in 2022. While “Vicky” certainly lets you paint the map, if that is your wish, the focus in this series is much more on the economic and social development of your country than it is on conquest. Paradox really leaned into this direction with Victoria 3, simulating the strata of society and their cultural, economic, and political desires more deeply than ever before.

Make your country the way you want it to be as you discover exciting new technologies that will revolutionize the world – and sometimes your government against your will.

Steam Spring Sale 2023 features a 20% discount on Victoria 3 and a 10% discount on Victoria 3: Grand Edition.

Total War: Warhammer 3 – MW

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Total War: Warhammer 3 is probably the most ambitious strategy game ever built thanks to its included Immortal Empires game mode. Immortal Empires features content of the entire trilogy and lets you conquer the entire world of Warhammer Fantasy, if you so wish. If your ambitions are a bit smaller, the game contains excellent single-player and co-op campaigns that see you race against other factions to find a dying god or fight out a civil war in the frosty realm of Kislev.

Featuring more in-depth factions than ever before and with the highly-anticipated Chaos Dwarfs being on the horizon as well, it’s a great time to get into Total War: Warhammer 3, no matter if you’re in it for the turn-based empire management or the spectacular real-time battles.

Steam Spring Sale 2023 features a 33% discount on Total War: Warhammer 3 and discounts of up to 50% to some of its DLCs.

Sayonara Wild Hearts – OB

Sayonara Wild Hearts is part rhythm game, part arcade racer, and all experimental pop album. There’s really nothing else like it on the market, it’s unique in every way, from its simplistic but challenging gameplay to its neon art style. It’s all set to an incredible original soundtrack that stays present in your head for a long time after you’ve run through its 2-hour runtime, and it’s eminently replayable, pushing you to perform better with every attempt. Also, Queen Latifah is in it.

Spring Steam Sale 2023 features a 40% discount on Sayonara Wild Hearts.

Monster Hunter Rise – OB

I think anyone who’s played Monster Hunter Rise will likely agree that it’s the best game in the almost 20-year-old series. Beyond just being the latest and greatest, Rise quite literally rose to the occasion, taking Monster Hunter’s signature methodical action gameplay and ramping it up to 11. It’s faster and snappier, giving you ridiculous movement and recovery options while not compromising the core of Monster Hunter’s combat. It’s frankly absurd that it works as well as it does, but it does make it near impossible to go back to older games.

Spring Steam Sale 2023 features a 50% discount on Monster Hunter Rise, and a 34% discount on Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak.

Phantom Abyss – RW

Indiana Jones may have explored ancient tombs and used his iconic whip as a weapon, but do you know what he never did? Use that whip as a grappling hook to fly over a pit of spikes. Phantom Abyss is your opportunity to prove how much cooler you are than Indy by navigating roguelike temples full of every kind of trap you can imagine. With nothing but a whip in hand you’ll need to get around bottomless pits, boulders, darts, explosives, and the godlike beings that guard each temple and relentlessly pursue you.

While this game is still in Early Access, there’s more than enough content to make it worth buying now.

Steam Spring Sale 2023 features a 25% discount on Phantom Abyss.

Dicey Dungeons – RW

From the mind that brought you the fiendishly difficult Super Hexagon and VVVVVV, Terry Cavanagh, Dicey Dungeons is an indie hit from 2019 that may have passed you by. Playing as one of six different characters, you’ll have to take on a series of dungeons where every attack, block, and ability is determined by the roll of a dice. It’s far from luck-based though, as you’ll have to grow your arsenal to account for every possibility, and manipulate your dice results. If you’ve never tried it before then there’s no reason not to, as it’s available now for less than $4.

Steam Spring Sale 2023 features a 75% discount on Dicey Dungeons.

Don't have a budget for new games right now? Check out the best free Steam games for some great alternatives.