The Steam Summer Sale is on through July 9, and the headline Star Wars deal is easy to call: Star Wars Jedi: Survivor at $13.99, 80% off. If you've been waiting on the best single-player Star Wars game of the current era, this is the price to act on. Discounts are static for the whole sale, so there's no flash-deal timing game; buy whenever before the 9th.
The buy list
- Jedi: Survivor, $13.99 (80% off). The deal of the sale. Fourteen dollars for a 30-plus-hour campaign that made our case for modern Star Wars single-player.
- Empire at War Gold Pack, 60% off. Still the only real Star Wars RTS, still actively patched by its community, still great. If our talk of Zero Company has you in a strategy mood, this is the back-catalog pick.
- Classic catalog, up to 66% off. Knights of the Old Republic and The Force Unleashed Ultimate Sith Edition are both in the bin. KOTOR at a few dollars remains the best RPG money-per-hour ratio in the franchise.
The skip list
Skip anything you're lukewarm on just because it's discounted. The average cut across this sale is about 45%, which means everything looks like a deal. These games return to these prices at every major sale. The only reason to buy now is that you'll actually play it this summer.
StarWars.com is running an official promo for the sale; GameSpot's deal roundup has the broader list.
What to do with this: buy Survivor if you don't own it. Everything else, apply the will-I-actually-play-it test and be honest.
More as it develops. The games catalog has the full picture.