Even amidst Covid-19 delays in 2020, Valve's sales were full steam ahead. The same has been true so far in 2021. The seasonal sales offer the broadest and deepest price cuts, and they tend to occur. Winter Sale 2020. 22 December — 5 January 2021. Tuesday, lasted 14 days.

- Save on thousands of games and vote for your favorites in The Steam Awards!
The Winter Sale has begun, with deep discounts on thousands of games! But as always that’s not all there is to the event. The Steam Awards nominees have been chosen, there are holiday gifts to pick up, and both Steam Points and Steam Chat have been updated with new features and content.
- Grab your Holiday Gifts
This year we’ve teamed up with artist Eric Nyffeler, to help us create the Winter Sale theme, the Seasonal Profile, and.. bird stickers!? Why birds, you ask? To that we ask you - why NOT birds? Claim a free animated bird sticker (each inspired by a popular game on Steam) every other day of the sale when you visit the Points Shop, where you'll find other new winter seasonal items.
- Vote for the 2020 Steam Award Winners
Thanks to your tens of millions of nominations (a record!) during the Autumn Sale, we have our final nominees for the 2020 Steam Awards. Over forty titles are up for awards across ten categories, and the winners will be chosen by you, the Steam community. Make sure to visit the Steam Awards page to cast your vote before January 3rd, when we will be announcing the winners!
- Steam Points Updates
- New Profile Showcases and Upgrades -Don’t have enough room to display all your rare achievements or badges? Now you can upgrade your showcases, giving you more room to display your swag. Still not enough room? You can also get additional showcases for your profile, all for Steam Points. Check them out now in the Steam Points Shop. We've also added new showcases to choose from. You can now add the Community Awards, Game Completionist, Featured Artwork, and Video showcases to your Steam Profile.
- Profile and Discussion Awards -We’ve seen how Steam players have loved awarding reviews and workshop content, so the team has decided to expand this further. Starting today, you can grant community awards to Steam Profiles and Discussion Board posts as well. Learn more here.
- New Community Awards -There are now even more places to award content, so it would be a shame if there weren't more awards to choose from. The team has nearly doubled the number of available community awards with this update - this includes the Clever, Wholesome, Wild, and Saucy awards, just to name a few.
- Steam Chat Reactions
Steam Chat has gotten an upgrade as well with today's update - Chat Reactions. You can now react to messages within Steam Chat using your emoticons or animated stickers. Reactions appear in-line below the message, and other players can +1 your reaction or add reactions of their own. This update applies to desktop, web, and mobile versions of Steam Chat.
Enjoy the sale, and stay tuned for announcements about the best games of 2020 and the winners of the Steam Awards!

As 2020 comes to a close, Steam has finally announced its end of the year deals and opened up voting for the Steam Awards. The Steam Winter Sale offers discounts on thousands of games.

This year, Steam broke its record for the total number of nomination votes, having tens of millions of nominations from the Steam Autumn sale that ran earlier this year. Steam has narrowed down the games to just over forty titles, spread out across the ten different categories. Taking part in this year's vote will earn users a unique Winter Sale trading card for each vote cast, which players can add to their collection.

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The Steam Winter Sale will run from December 22 to January 5 at 10 am PST. Voting for the Steam awards is only open until January 3 at 9 am PST, before the winners are announced.

Users are only allowed to cast one vote for each category, with five options each to choose from. The available categories for this year's Steam Awards are Game of The Year, VR Game of The Year, Labor of Love, Better With Friends, Most Innovative Gameplay, Outstanding Story Rich Game, Best Game You Suck At, Outstanding Visual Style, Best Soundtrack, and Sit Back And Relax. The categories have a mix of AAA titles, as well as smaller indie developed games to make things more interesting. Some of the titles that have earned nominations are Hades, Doom Eternal, Among Us, and Red Dead Redemption 2, though there are plenty of others too.

For the Winter Sale, many of the games on steam are offered with hefty discounts, each ranging from 20% to 80% off. Titles such as Control, Raft, and The Witcher 3 are included on the list of thousands of discounted titles as well. The Winter Sale even offers discounted deals on entire franchises, such as DragonBall, Star Wars, and Resident Evil.

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Other features that are included for the winter update involve new reaction features for Steam chat, as users can now use animated reactions to reply to friends' messages. The new chat functionality is available for the desktop, web, and mobile versions of Steam chat. There are also new bird holiday stickers that are inspired by a popular game on Steam, for those looking to spice things up in that regard. Users can collect the free bird sticker in the points shop every other day during the sale. Hopefully, gamers can use this sale to collect some games on either a friend's or their own wishlist.

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