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The best Steam strategy games are on sale, with one obvious omission

A great Steam sale on strategy games is happening right now, but, amid all the DLC controversy, Total War Warhammer 3 is nowhere to be seen.

A massive Total War Warhammer 3 DLC pricing issue, many are wondering what's going on.

In case you missed it, the Total War Warhammer 3 review bombing from s on Steam.

Now, Steam Strategy Fest is running from Monday, August 28 to Monday, September 4, and it appears that Warhammer 3 was listed in the festival, but it isn't on sale. As of publication, it looks like Warhammer 3 has been removed from the list of games in the strategy game festival (initially spotted by Len on Twitter), but previous games Warhammer 1 and 2 are still listed, despite also not being on sale.

Total War Warhammer 3 not in Steam sale: a look at the Warhammer games listed in the Steam strategy fest

Even so, there is actually an array of really great strategy games up for grabs, so we've put a list together of our favorites alongside the savings you can expect when making purchases on Steam.

Steam strategy game sale

  • Stellaris is 70% at $11.99 / £10.49
  • Civilization 6 is 90% at $5.99 / £4.99
  • Anno 1800 is 70% at $14.99 / £12.49
  • Age of Empires 4 is 50% off at $14.99 / £17.49
  • Victoria 3 is 30% off at $34.99 / £29.39
  • Frostpunk is 80% off at $5.99 / £4.99
  • XCOM 2 is 90% off at $5.99 / £3.49

There's plenty more to enjoy in the Steam sale too, as Valve has broken it up into categories like turn-based strategy games, real-time, tower defense, and even cities and settlements, so if you have a specific sub-genre of strategy game you love the most, you can easily find something cheap to your liking in the sale.

Whatever your taste, we've also got a breakdown of the best Warhammer games instead, with many of these looped into the Steam sale too.