Cheap PC Game Deals On Steam This Week

Steam's week-long sale is live, featuring a number of excellent games that are available for deeply discounted rates. Lots of indie games in particular are on sale, often for just a few bucks each. So if you've been looking at your Steam library with a forlorn expression wishing you had something new to play, now's a good chance to freshen it up without dropping loads of cash. Take a look at some of the highlights below.

Let's start with the really cheap games, of which you can find plenty right now. The solemn and gorgeous game Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is on sale for just $2 / £2, as is Ubisoft's vertical platformer Grow Home. Its sequel, Grow Up, is discounted to $3 / £2.

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Three bucks also gets you the rhythm-roguelike game Crypt of the Necrodancer. And The Sims 3 might not be the latest game in the series, but it's on sale for $3 / £4--and it received 9/10 in GameSpot's Sims 3 review.

Moving on up the pricing scale brings us to the WWI-set game Valiant Hearts: The Great War for $5 / £4, with the artistic RPG Child of Light dropping down to the same price. The Kojima-approved game of re-arranging comic book panels Framed Collection is on sale for $7 / £5. And if you haven't picked up Kerbal Space Program yet, you can now for $20 / £15.

You can find more of our picks below, or hop over to Steam for the full list.

• Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons -- $2 / £2
• Child of Light -- $5 / £4
• Crypt of the Necrodancer -- $3 / £2
• Framed Collection -- $7 / £5
• Grow Home -- $2 / £2
• Grow Up -- $3 / £2
• Hacknet -- $2 / £2
• Kerbal Space Program -- $20 / £15
• The Letter -- $13 / £10
• The Sims 3 -- $3 / £4
• Tower of Guns -- $4 / £3
• Ultrawings -- $10 / £8
• Valiant Hearts: The Great War -- $5 / £4
• Valley -- $3 / £2