Street Fighter 6 and Silent Hill 2 headline Steam's 2026 Golden Week sales

Steam's 2026 Golden Week sale might look a bit bare compared to previous years, with major publishers like Square Enix discounting a grand total of nothing. But there's still a wide selection of excellent recent games up for grabs at nice discounts. The sale is live now through May 4, though a few publishers have set their discounts to run until May 5 or May 6, depending on the game.

Street Fighter 6

Street Fighter 6 is that rare fighting game where newcomers actually stand a chance at learning how to play before getting demolished in online matches. World Tour, SF 6's single-player mode, does an admirable job of teaching you more than just basic moves, and if the basic and advanced moves give you trouble, you can swap control modes to find one that suits you better. There are an almost overwhelming number of playable characters and playstyles to tinker with, including several designed specifically for newcomers.

Street Fighter 6 is on sale for $19.99. There's also a free demo if you want to check it out first.

Silent Hill f

Silent Hill f was one of our favorite games of 2025, and it's discounted to $34.99 during Konami's Golden Week sale. Higurashi and Umineko writer Ryukishi07 puts their signature twist on Silent Hill by using it to explore the claustrophobia of small-town living and the hellish expectations placed on women in rural Japan during the 1960s. They've explored those themes in previous visual novels, but never in such a compact, intense manner as he does in Silent Hill f. You'll need to play through multiple times to see the full story, but it's worth the repetition.

Silent Hill 2 remake

If classic Silent Hill is more your thing, you can get the gussied-up remake of James Sunderland's messed-up journey toward the truth for $34.99. Bloober Team's Silent Hill 2 remake expands on some of the original's weaker moments — Maria has an actual personality and story arc, for example — and gives the whole thing a Resident Evil-style makeover in terms of combat and puzzle-solving. We heartily recommended it as one of 2024's essential games.

Ys 8: Lacrimosa of Dana

Action-adventure RPGs don't get much better than Ys 8: Lacrimosa of Dana. It's a bit like Lost, in that it follows a shipwrecked group of travelers on a strange island populated by dinosaurs and other creatures that shouldn't exist. There's also a serial killer mystery, a bit of community building, crude-but-lovable sailors, and some of the long-running Ys series' best combat design. What’s more, since it's a Nihon Falcom game, there’s a world-ending calamity just over the horizon that culminates in a spectacular conclusion. The soundtrack's a certified banger, too.

Ys 8 is on sale for $19.99.

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

If you played the brilliant Last Defense Academy and wondered why Darumi kept mentioning killing games, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is the reason. An evil teddy bear kidnaps a bunch of kids, puts them in school together, and forces them to kill each other for his own amusement — or die trying to escape. Your job is investigating your peers, picking apart their lies in the hopes of preventing a death or figuring out who done it when the murders inevitably start happening. It's a weird game, but that's part of its charm. You can grab Trigger Happy Havoc for $9.99.

Dragon's Dogma 2

Capcom's bizarre open-world adventure is going for $29.39 during Steam's Golden Week sale. It's not a great choice if you want deep (or coherent) dark fantasy storytelling, but if you're into deep and difficult to parse gameplay, rewarding combat, and extensive character-building potential, it's easy to overlook Dragon's Dogma 2's narrative idiosyncrasies. Mostly.

Steins;Gate Elite

Steins;Gate Elite asks the seemingly ridiculous question, "What if you could change the past with a microwave?" and turns it into one of the best visual novels of the past 10 years. It's a dizzying swirl of conspiracies, deluded tech bros, close friendships, and dark tragedy that somehow never feels farfetched, despite how far it stretches the concept of probability. The Elite version is going for $17.99 during Golden Week and includes some new animations for certain ending scenes. Though if you're fine with the original (it still holds up perfectly well), that one's discounted to $8.99.

Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society

This one's for the real dungeon crawler sickos. Moon Society is dense, but rewarding. You've got up to 40 characters to wrangle during any expedition and countless potential team combos, classes, and skills to experiment with — it's a lot. The dungeons are a lot as well, in a good way. They're crammed with traps and monsters and all the things you'd expect from a good crawler. You also have random events to contend with and can even bust down walls to make your own paths. Galleria's story is one of those that takes 20+ hours before it really gets going, but between the narrative payoff and just how good dungeon exploration is, it's well worth the slow burn.

You can grab Moon Society for $29.99 during the Steam sale. Its older, slightly less polished (but still excellent) predecessor, Coven of Dusk, is also on sale for $9.99.