Next weekend, a number of big-name publishers will be attending Tokyo Game Show 2024. The annual event will showcase a host of previously announced and new games to fans. To give everybody a chance to enjoy some of the celebrations, several of the publishers making announcements at TGS are also holding sales on Steam. That includes Capcom and Square Enix, which means there’s never been a better time to grab as many games as you can from franchises like Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Final Fantasy, and more at a cheap price.
Capcom's Sale: A Feast for Action Gamers
Capcom’s sale, which runs until September 29, is the perfect place to start if you’re a fan of action games. One game every fan should add to their cart is Devil May Cry 5, the most recent entry in the iconic action series that stands as perhaps the best game the genre has seen in years; it’s a whopping 60 percent off. If you prefer beating people up with fists rather than swords and guns, then don’t forget to grab Street Fighter 6, an incredibly beginner-friendly fighting game that hides a lot of depth underneath its accessible surface. Horror fans, meanwhile, will want to take advantage of all the Resident Evil discounts. While you might be drawn to 2023’s shiny new RE4 remake, I’d steer you towards 2019’s masterful RE2 remake instead, as the latter is a truly astounding modern reinvention, and reinterpretation, of an all-time classic. Beyond these obvious picks are some smaller gems, like gorgeous action-adventure title Okami and the ironically oft-forgotten action title Remember Me.
Square Enix's Sale: Final Fantasy, NieR: Automata, and More
The big headliner for the Square Enix sale, which runs until September 30, is obviously Final Fantasy. Nearly every entry in the long-running RPG series is available at a bargain during the Publisher’s TGS sale—with one glaring exception. The Pixel Remasters of Final Fantasy 1-6 aren’t discounted at all, which is a bummer considering how worth it it is to go back to every one of them, even the very first entry, today. But whether you love FF7 and haven’t played Remake or loved Remake and want to revisit the game that inspired it, you can still get a great deal. I’d strongly encourage you to grab Yoko Taro’s funny, confounding, and emotionally devastating title NieR: Automata as well, which is slashed by 60 percent. Yet some of the best gems to pick up in the Square Enix sale are the weird B-tier games the company has been putting out in recent years that never quite got the attention Final Fantasy does. I’m talking about games like RPG/farming-sim Harvestella and strategy title The DioField Chronicle.
Don't Miss These Other Great Deals!
Even with all these recommendations for games to get during the Capcom and Square Enix TGS sales, you’re still likely to find dozens more deals worth your money. If somehow you own all these games or they just don’t strike your fancy, I promise, there is something for you in this sale.
A Sale to Celebrate Tokyo Game Show
We’re not too far out now from the Tokyo Game Show. The next game show happening in Japan might not be accessible for everyone here, and it could be that the timezone alone will mean having to wait for the next day to get those exciting updates. But even if you can’t make it to the Tokyo Game Show, there is a sale right now on Steam to help celebrate the event.
Thanks to Kotaku, we’re finding out that Capcom and Square Enix are featuring sales right now on Steam to celebrate the upcoming Tokyo Game Show event. This is great if you already had some game on the backlog from either of the two. However, if you didn’t have anything necessarily on the backlog, this sale could persuade you to pick up some games you might have missed out on initially. We’ll list out some highlights for both sale events below.
Don't Wait Too Long!
That said, if you’re not a PC gamer or don’t see anything that piques your interest, our weekly video game deals page is available. We update the page weekly to highlight some of the best video game deals and discounts for both PC and console platforms. We’re not sure how long either Steam sale discount page will be active. So, if you find something worth grabbing, don’t wait too long to pull the trigger.