This weekend is your last shot at the Steam Golden Week Sale – here are 18 deals we love

Persona 5 Royal
(Image credit: Atlus)

There are only a few days left in the Steam Golden Week Sale 2023, a celebration of Japanese games from some of the biggest publishers in the business. 

I somehow missed this for a while because the individual sale pages are hidden behind obscure banners, but there are a ton of great deals to be had until May 8. Square Enix, NIS America, Bandai Namco, Koei Tecmo, Spike Chunsoft, Sega, and Capcom have a lot of games on sale, and I've pulled out 18 that really stood out to me and my coworkers. 

  • Bravely Default 2 - 50% off at $29.99: One of the best JRPGs to come out in the last few years, and the only perfect score that I've personally assigned in the last five years – check out our Bravely Default 2 review for more details.  
  • Persona 5 Royal - 35% off at $38.99: A better version of arguably the best JRPG you can play today.  
  • Dragon Quest 11 S - 35% off at $25.99: One of the few games that can actually rival the above lineup in the battle for greatest JRPG. A classic polished to a mirror shine. 
  • Scarlet Nexus - 75% off at $14.99: Great combat, bleak but beautiful world, weak side content – the perfect $15 game.  
  • The Yakuza Collection - 75% off at $35.00: Get a curb-stomping, bike-throwing, pile-driving seven Yakuza games for an average of $5 each, and prepare to play nothing else for about 1,000 hours.  
  • Atelier Trilogies - 51% off at $58.48: I don't know exactly why, but these crafting RPGs almost never go on sale, so getting half-off on the Mysterious Trilogy, Arland Trilogy, or Dusk Trilogy is a rare and solid deal. Pick your favorite bundle and get three (long) games for the price of a new one.  
  • Zero Escape: The Nonary Games - 70% off at $8.99: The one-two punch of Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Virtue's Last Reward hides one of the best puzzle games in one of the best visual novels.  
  • Danganronpa 1 + 2 - 64% off at $14.38: Another unforgettable visual novel wombo-combo, this time with competitive murdering.  
  • Nier Replicant - 60% off at $23.99: A hefty discount on the modernized remake of the open-world RPG that started it all, sort of, if you don't read the Deep Nier Lore, and I can't recommend you do without doctor approval. (Nier: Automata is 50% off too.)  
  • Chrono Trigger - 50% off at $7.49: About as close to required reading as JRPGs can get.  

Resident Evil Village Shadows of Rose

(Image credit: Capcom)
  • A whole lot of Final Fantasy - 50% off: Square has 14 of these things on sale and they're averaging 50% off. Knowingly chucking a live grenade onto the floor of a debate hall, I asked the GR team to pick their favorites in an extremely calm and reasonable manner, and we collectively recommended basically all of them, but especially 10, 12, 15, and 7 Remake.
  • Disgaea 5 Complete - 75% off at $9.99: Spend upwards of 100 hours breaking an impossibly dense strategy game that was explicitly designed to be broken.
  • Ys 8: Lacrimosa of Dana - 55% off at $17.99: Just a gold-standard, utterly classical, charmingly retro action JRPG.
  • The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - 50% off at $19.99: The first in a four-part series of more modern, turn-based JRPGs (all on sale) that require a high tolerance for anime high schoolers but deliver slick combat.
  • Triangle Strategy - 50% off at $29.99: Remember that beautiful strategy game with the awful name and threadbare marketing? It's really good!
  • Resident Evil 7 & Village Gold Editions - 50% off at $39.99: Get all the bells and whistles for the two latest mainline Resident Evil games, which are both great in their own right.
  • Devil May Cry 5 - 67% off at $9.89: One of the defining character action games of our time.
  • Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy - 50% off at $14.99: The lawyer-turned-detective visual novel that's so good the world finally bullied Capcom into putting it on PC.

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Austin Wood
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Austin has been a game journalist for 12 years, having freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree. He's been with GamesRadar+ since 2019. They've yet to realize his position is a cover for his career-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a lot of news and the occasional feature, all while playing as many roguelikes as possible.

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