Steam gets a Black Friday sale, including the Steam Deck for just $320

Surprise, players. Valve just launched the first-ever Steam Black Friday sale, and you know what that means: massive discounts on figurative tons of PC games. You can head over to SteamPowered.com to look around, but Valve’s Steam Deck handheld is definitely the star of the show today. The base model is getting a rare discount, down from $400 to just $319.20 through Saturday.

This is the OG Steam Deck and the non-upgraded version, which now shows its age with an AMD Ryzen Zen 2 APU. It also has a smaller, dimmer 7-inch screen and a slightly smaller battery than the revised Steam Deck OLED, which is ostensibly not on sale, as well as less space with only 256 GB of storage. That said, just over $300 is a fantastic price for a machine that can play most games on Steam without issue and runs SteamOS for stability and smoothness. You may want to get a MicroSD card or a new SSD to increase this storage for larger 3D games.

If you’re looking for something a little newer, you should definitely check out the Lenovo Legion Go S, which is also on sale. It’s the first non-Valve portable gaming PC to run SteamOS out of the box instead of Windows, while featuring a newer processor, larger storage, larger, higher-resolution screen, longer battery life… you name it. Normally $650, Best Buy is offering it for $200 off today, making it a great alternative to the Steam Deck OLED for $100 less.

All eyes are currently on Valve, which instead stole the spotlight from Microsoft and Asus after the release of the ROG Ally Xbox. This handheld is Microsoft’s answer to the Steam Deck, with a new, sleeker Windows interface for smaller gaming devices. This full-screen Xbox experience (it’s Windows, not Xbox, but whatever) is now available on all handhelds and in testing for laptops and desktops. But even if there’s no new Steam Deck model in the near future, gamers are salivating over the new Steam Machine desktop/mini-PC/console thing and the Steam Frame VR headset, both scheduled for release in early 2026.

For more Black Friday deals, keep an eye on PCWorld – we’ve got plenty for PC gamers of all stripes.