The Steam Summer Sale 2026 runs through July 9, and while the AAA open-world crowd , indie roguelite fans , and racing and driving players have already gotten their roundups, the FPS and shooter side of the sale is sitting on some of the steepest cuts of the entire event — a 92%-off Metro trilogy bundle, three boomer shooters under $7 each, and a genuinely great co-op horde shooter for $2.99.
Prices below are in USD, pulled from current Steam store listings as of July 3, 2026. Sale pricing is locked in for the full two-week event, so there's no need to rush before a timer runs out — but it's still worth double-checking the store page for the exact current price before buying.
Boomer shooters
| Game | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| $3.99 (was $19.99, 80% off) | The best-performing entry in the reboot series on Steam Deck. Switching the renderer to Vulkan and dropping resolution scale to 85% holds a clean 60 FPS. | |
| $6.99 (was $19.99, 65% off) | A dark-fantasy take on the retro-FPS formula, with a silky-smooth 60 FPS on Deck out of the box. | |
| $3.99 (was $19.99, 80% off) | Same retro aesthetic and fast-paced combat as AMID EVIL, with noticeably lighter battery drain on handheld. |
Fast, stylish, and a little unhinged
| Game | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| $12.99 (was $19.99, 35% off) | Steam Deck Verified. A neon-soaked speedrun shooter where you're constantly racing a 10-second countdown; a 45 FPS lock is the sweet spot for busier floors. | |
| $3.74 (was $14.99, 75% off) | Cyberpunk parkour-shooter in the vein of Mirror's Edge with a gun — runs well on Deck with minor tuning. | |
| $12.49 (was $24.99, 50% off) | An open-world hoverboard shooter that holds above 60 FPS on the DX11 renderer almost the entire time, even mid-combat. Especially strong in co-op. |
Co-op and squad shooters
| Game | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| $2.99 (was $29.99, 90% off) | Defaults to high settings and still runs great on Deck early on; expect some frame dips in the largest hordes or full multiplayer lobbies since it leans CPU-heavy when enemy counts spike. | |
| $2.99 (was $9.99, 70% off) | Still one of the best heist games around a decade later, with years of added guns and heists. Hits 60 FPS on Deck at max settings. |
Story-driven campaigns
| Game | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| $5.04 (92% off) | Metro 2033 Redux, Metro Last Light Redux, and Metro Exodus with its expansion pass, all in one bundle. A 40-45 FPS lock keeps it stable through the heaviest fights on Deck. | |
| $1.49 (was $14.99, 90% off) | A tight, story-driven Wild West campaign from 2013 that still holds up — and comfortably clears 90 FPS on Deck with low battery drain. |
A note on Steam Deck and Steam Machine
Killing Floor 2 and PAYDAY 2 are the two picks here to watch if you're playing on a Steam Machine rather than a Deck: both lean harder on CPU work than GPU work once a lot of enemies or players are on screen at once, which is exactly the profile our benchmarks of the console's single-channel RAM configuration found costs the most real-world frames. If Echo Point Nova or DOOM (2016) feel like they have headroom to spare on a Steam Machine's RDNA 3 GPU, it's worth turning on FSR 4, which recently landed on Proton Experimental and already works on that hardware, before assuming a title needs lowered settings to push a higher resolution.
Sale pricing holds until July 9 — after that, don't expect cuts this deep on boomer shooters or the Metro trilogy again until the next seasonal event. If FPS games aren't what you're after, we've also rounded up the sale's best big-budget deals , the best indie discounts , and the best racing and driving deals .
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