about steam sales

[nusterdamus]

Hello everybody! I am somewhat new to Steam (been around for like 3 months now) and I absoolutely love the deals which are provided during the sales! But of course that emptied my walled and I still have several games on my wishlist :D So I would like to ask when do steam sales usually occur ? I know they aren't officially announced but maybe they tend to happen around the same time every year? Like there is always summer/winter sales as far as I know.
Thank you all in advance. Cheers!

[Spawn of Totoro]

There are at least two major seasonal sales and several minor sales every year.

Summer and Winter are the largest. Fall (around Thanks Giving) and one during spring are good, but not always as large.

There are no set dates, but these four tend to pop up on a regular basis.

[SpunkyJones]

There are two big sales, summer and winter. There is also games on sale weekly and every weekend.

[Snapjak]

There are also publisher sales scattered throughout the year. Those can be weekends sales, week long, or even longer if the publisher wants.

[HLCinSC]

Here's the lowdown on sales: They do not publish sale dates ahead of time . Last year there was a Lunar/Chinese New Year sale in February (it didn't happen this year), Summer Sale (most titles) in June, Halloween sale (horror titles), Autumn sale (general) around Thanksgiving, and the Winter sale (general) around Christmas.

Lastly, you have the constant sales as well. The daily title sale (posted at 1 p.m. est lasting 48 hours), Mid-week madness sales (I think tue-thr @1 p.m.)), Weekend sales (thurs-monday @ 1 p.m.), Week long sales (Monday 1 p.m.-next monday @1 p.m.). Also publishers are free to make sales at any point they wish ( I believe the minimum length is 48 hours.

There can also be limited time trials of part/full games (free weekends usually ) and very rarely a game may be given away for a short period of time to keep forever if you start downloading it within that time window.

You may be interested in IsThereAnyDeal.com You can import your Steam Wishlist and set custom alerts when a game reaches a price you set from a variety of legit Steam (and other places like Origin or Uplay if you want) key retailers.

[nusterdamus]

Thank you all for your answers. I noticed that you said that sometimes spring sales might not occur. Now, since I started using Steam, I took advantage of three sales in 2 months (Halloween,Fall,Winter). But if the next sale is the summer sale that means that we will have to wait a lot more. So is there any way to tell (I know, they are not official, but maybe steam veterans can guess) whether or not there will be any spring sale or idk maybe Valentine's day sale or smth or we will have to wait for like six months :?

[nusterdamus]

By the way thank you for that isthereanydeal.com website I think it will prove useful :)