The price of video games is undeniably going up. With Nintendo now charging $70 USD for their newestSwitch 2exclusives, it’s definitely starting to feel like one of the most cost-effective hobbies you can have is losing its luster.
However, this isn’t an overarching statement, and there are still tons of cheap games to be found on any console. While the price of newer games is going up, if you wait long enough, you’re able to get almost anything for cheap. Below, we’ll take a look at some amazing games that you should never buy at full price due to how often they go on sale for dirt cheap.
Civilization 6 is an excellent game, but it’s never a good idea to buy it at full price, especially when you consider how much DLC there is for the game. Buying all the DLC packs and expansions more than doubles the cost of the game, but they offer essential additions that round out the gameplay experience.
Luckily, Civ 6 goes on sale quite frequently, and you’re able to routinely pick up the Platinum Edition of the game, which includes both major expansions and several scenario packs, for next to nothing. Even if everybody has moved on to Civ 7, the previous iteration of this grand strategy series is a great choice.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is often considered one of the best games of all time, but its sale price doesn’t necessarily reflect that. you’re able to routinely pick up this masterpiece, with both of its exceptional DLC expansions, for as little as $4.
That said, with the amount of content and excellent gameplay you get in The Witcher 3, paying full price definitely doesn’t make it feel like you overpaid. There are multiple endings to experience, dozens of fleshed-out side quests, and overall great writing laced throughout the entirety of this game.
This compilation of Mass Effect 1, 2, and 3 normally goes for the price of a new triple-A game, but if you wait a week or two, you can get it for around 90 percent off, or $6 USD. The Legendary Edition also includes all previously released DLC for each of the games.
Trust us, if it’s not currently on sale, give it a few days, and you can pick up one of the most acclaimed video game trilogies ever created for next to nothing. Playing through each game in the Legendary Edition can easily rack up over a hundred hours of playtime, so it’s perfect if you want to stretch your savings as far as they’ll go.
In a similar vein, Monster Hunter Rise offers hundreds of hours of gameplay, but you can frequently find it on sale for as little as $10, including its expansion, Sunbreak. That’s an astounding amount of game for a very small price.
The base game of Monster Hunter Rise is admittedly not the best in the series, but its expansion elevates it to one of the most fun Monster Hunter games of the modern era. Don’t get this one at full price, though; bundles on sites like Fanatical often let you get it and Monster Hunter World, with its expansion, for around $15, give or take.
If you somehow don’t already own Skyrim at this point, you can probably wait a few more weeks for it to go back on sale. It’s a bit of a meme at this point that Skyrim has been released on every new console since it first launched in 2011, and there’s some truth to that. However, it still goes on sale during nearly every Steam sale, and frequently enough on consoles, too.
The base game itself is incredible, but Skyrim’s true potential comes from its extensive modding community, which has added a near-infinite amount of new and fresh content to the game. If you’ve previously played Skyrim on console, it’s not a bad idea to pick it up on PC so you have access to some of the best mods ever created.
Players have been singing praises for Red Dead Redemption 2 since its release, so there’s a good chance that you’re already very familiar with this game. If you don’t already have it, you’re much better off waiting for a sale, which happens every few weeks.
While tons of players absolutely love this game, it’s definitely not for everyone. The setting alone may not be your cup of tea, but the game is also almost too committed to being realistic. The animations are slow, there are long horse rides to get anywhere, and even just looting buildings takes forever. If you’re not sure if you’ll like this one, wait for it to go on sale before you pull the trigger.
No Man’s Sky is one of the greatest redemption arcs in gaming history. Releasing in an unfinished, buggy state, Hello Games has spent the last nine years updating the game with tons of new content, all for free.
Like a lot of other games on this list, No Man’s Sky’s sale price may as well be its default price, since it seems to be on sale more often than not. If you absolutely can’t wait to start your adventure across the galaxy, you won’t regret paying full price, but wait a day or two, and you could get it for even cheaper.
Borderlands 3 is the biggest game in the franchise yet, and is also one of the cheapest games in the franchise, if you get it on sale. This means you can maximize your dollar-to-fun ratio by waiting for it to go on sale for as little as $3, which was its price during the previous Steam Summer Sale.
Borderlands 3’s normal $60 price tag is justified, considering how much there is to do in the game, but it’s almost impossible to actually buy the game for that price because of how frequently it’s on sale. If you’re a story-first kind of person, you’ll also want to wait for a sale for Borderlands 3 if you’re interested in its gameplay, because the game isn’t exactly praised for its story.
