My friend Tyler told me not to look at them, he warned me that if I did then my wallet would suffer, but I didn’t listen to him. I had to check out my very first dreaded steam sale. For context, steam sales are notorious not for being poor, but for being good… REALLY good, Almost TOO good.

Just a few examples of the devilishly evil sales I had to endure.

At first I was scrolling by and I saw a game I wanted for five dollars, then it turned into two games on sale for ten, then one for twenty, and then a bunch of three dollar games that added up to a total of $60 worth of games, of which I may only play about half of them, simply for the fact that they were good deals.

These are just a few of the games I bought that fateful day.

Showing screenshots of how discounted the games were, though, could you blame me? All these critically acclaimed games for an incredibly low price were, for me at least, a deal that I couldn’t pass up. Especially since I had just gotten into PC gaming and needed to buff up my computer library. Even as I write this, I spent another five dollars on a game I missed in the sale just because the lunar new year sale ended tomorrow. After surviving my first steam sale I only have one big takeaway from it, I simultaneously can’t wait for, and also dread the coming of the yearly steam summer sale in a few months.