I accidentally spent $300 on games during Steam's Summer Sale — here are 15 games you should 'accidentally' buy too

Amazon's Fallout TV show returns for its second season in December 2025, so if you want a way to pass the time until then (or simply never got around to playing Obsidian's RPG masterpiece), why not get familiar with the New Vegas setting in advance?

With the Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition, which includes all of this title's pre-order bonuses and post-release DLC, you might just get around to finishing it before the show returns to screens.

Grounded 2 is right around the corner, releasing to Early Access on July 29. However, don't let that dissuade you from checking out the original, which is an 80s-themed romp through a backyard at the scale of Honey, I Shrunk The Kids.

There's a ton of content to enjoy, and a great many mechanics to familiarize yourself with ahead of its sequels' debut.

Forget your 7 Days to Die and your DayZ, perpetually in early access title Project Zomboid is the hardcore survival RPG of every zombie fan's dreams.

Don't let its graphics deceive, under its rustic isometric charm lies a hard-to-pick-up, hard-to-put-down simulation of the post-apocalypse that's as brilliant as it is brutal. And boy, is it brutal.

It's hard to believe that the DOOM reboot is almost ten years old, but clearly all of that running and gunning has given it a lot of stamina, as it stands as one of the most intensely fun shooters in recent memory.

Better still, if it's not already at home in your library, you can claim it for only $4. So what are you waiting for? Get your ass to Mars.

Developer Hazelight Studios has built a sterling reputation for creating incredible co-op games, and while the Pixar-esque It Takes Two often steals the limelight, A Way Out serves as another fantastic outing that pairs creative gameplay with an impressive story to boot.

If you're, literally, late to the game on this one, R.E.P.O. has become a massive viral hit for its intentionally goofy approach to the extraction spooker genre (think Lethal Company or Content Warning), inviting you and up to five other players to team up and take on many a horror before vaulting to the exit with all the valuables you can carry.

In Schedule I, you play as a small-time herb salesperson whose only taste of the big leagues has come through late-night binges of Breaking Bad on Netflix — but all of that is about to change.

If you think you've got a little Walter White inside you that's bursting to get out, this is definitely the game for you, striking a tidy balance between simulation and satire.

If you're anything like me, your heart breaks when you return to play the original Half-Life, only to realize that the game looks absolutely nothing like you've chosen to remember it in your mind.

Thankfully, Black Mesa provides the solution, offering a full reimagining of Valve's original built within Half-Life 2's Source engine for enhanced graphics, gameplay, and audio.

A complete remake of the Crash Bandicoot trilogy is fantastic nostalgia bait for the eternally masochistic, and an outright steal at only $4.

Not only will you be able to dive into familiar levels from a trio of games, but there's even NEW content to be found in this bundle, with the Future Tense level being a brief expansion 20 years in the making.

I don't give a damn how well it sold or what you might have to say otherwise, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is one of the most underrated gems of the past five years.

While it's not perfect, it's fun and funny enough to make up for it, giving us a new take on beloved MCU characters and a glimpse into a gaming universe that could've been quite special (if only Marvel's Avengers had been received a little better).

Once one of the most loathed games to ever release, DICE's second attempt at taking on the Battlefront franchise was able to turn things around over time, adding a thick layer of polish to an already stunning game and fine-tuning the fun to a high degree.

There's a reason the game is going through something of a successful resurrection at the moment, and it's not all about Battlefront III.

I think I shared the same thought as everybody else the first time I saw RoboCop: Rogue City, and it wasn't very nice.

However, shame on us for judging, as it's actually a pretty fun time that lets you buy into the power fantasy of being a brain and a hand in a garbage can, strapped with the kind of firepower that would make any 80s protagonist proud. 10/10, would recommend.

Rounding off a duo of 80s cult-classic revivals, Terminator: Resistance is another title shunned too soon, that wonderfully adds to the franchise that spawned it.

Live through the iconic Future War, only teased at in the earlier movies, as you do your part for the resistance against SkyNet and its legion of relentless, deadly machines.

If nothing else, it'll make for a good training sim for the impending AI takeover.

Gaming's greatest comeback story saw Hello Games reverse course from No Man's Sky's disastrous launch and slowly transform it into what it was originally envisioned to be (and then some) with over 35 major updates reshaping the game entirely.

It's now one of the better space-sims available, and 73% off during Steam's Summer Sale.

It's an open secret that for the majority of my life all I wanted to be was a pirate (thanks, Guybrush), so there's nothing I enjoy more than getting drunk on grog, dancing around the deck of a ship while I play an accordion, getting into a sword fight, and then coming home to enjoy a few quests for buried treasure on Sea of Thieves.

From its genuinely stunning water physics to its impressive Steam Deck compatibility, Sea of Thieves is a blast and a must-play for all of us high-seas has-beens.