The Steam Summer Sale features big discounts on thousands of games. To help you choose, the Adventure Games Podcast crew have scoured through the deals and found a bunch of absolute gems. The following are all games which we can vouch for being very good, and they’re all discounted at 75% or more! The percentage given after each game is how much they’re discounted by.

Casual
The sale is particularly good for those who like a more casual experience. These stood out to us as especially worth getting:
Agent A (90%), Down in Bermuda (90%), Tiny Room Stories (90%)

Puzzle

Some excellent puzzle-heavy games with excellent discounts are:

The Witness (75%), The Talos Principle (85%), Every The Room game (79%)

Amanita Design

Amanita make delightful, dialogue-free games full of charm. There are huge discounts on many of their games, including:

Machinarium (80%), Botanicula (85%), and Samorost 1 (Free!), 2 (80%) and 3 (80%)

Freebird Games

Freebird Games specialise in fantasy adventures which tug at the heartstrings. In particular, we really recommend:

To The Moon (80%), Bird Story (80%), Finding Paradise (75%)

Classics

Want to replay an adventure classic? Or get round to playing one people always mention? It’s the perfect time to with the following deals:

Every Broken Sword game (87%), Every Syberia game including the new one (85%), the remasters of Day of the Tentacle (75%), Grim Fandango (75%) and Full Throttle (75%)

Comedy

Comedy is hard to get right, but the following really delivered for us on laughs:

Paradigm (75%), Four Last Things (75%), Lair of the Clockwork God (80%), Later Alligator (80%)

Excellent Writing

A real stand out here is Disco Elysium (90%), but two other great adventure games with seriously good writing and big discounts are: 

The Red Strings Club (80%), 80 Days (75%)

Horror

It’s also a good sale for horror fans. In particular, we spotted:

Stories Untold (80%), The Frictional Games megapack including Amnesia, Soma and Penumbra (80%), 

Modern Classics

Some great modern adventure games which stick closely to the classic formula are:

Blackwell Bundle (75%), Broken Age (75%), Whispers of a Machine (80%)

Detective

Detective games are maybe the biggest subgenre of adventure games, so it’s not a surprise to find many great ones on sale:

A Case of Distrust (80%), Detective Grimoire (80%), Tangle Tower (80%), The Painscreek Killings (75%)

Art

Three really good adventure games which take the genre in a more experimental direction are:

Firewatch (80%), Dream Machine (80%), Her Story (75%)

Finally…

If all that’s not enough, we also spotted these two great deals which didn’t fit into the other categories:

The Walking Dead complete series (80%), Not Tonight (85%)