Steam's Summer Sale Offers Sick Deals On Free-To-Play Games

Steam's annual Summer Sale is officially under way and now that Valve's had a day to wait for its servers to level out, we've decided to take a look at what it has to offer this time around. While most of the focus in these sales is generally on buy-to-play or subscription games, there are deals to be found on items related to some of the most popular free-to-play offerings now available on Steam.

In fact, there are a lot of discounts to be had if you're willing to do a lot of scrolling. That said, some discounts are a little "meh"; no one rolls into a Steam Sale for anything that has less than a 50% discount. But for the purposes of this list, we've decided to go with the serious discounts: 75% off or more, and on items that would cost you more than $20 normally.

Enjoy the sales listed below, but keep a close eye on your bank account. You don't want to be eating ramen for the next month.

Marvel Heroes 2016 - Marvel's Captain America: Civil War Pack
$2.49 (Normally $24.99) 90% off

Includes:

• Captain America and Iron Man heroes
• Captain America: Civil War costumes for both heroes
• Two Hero-Specific S.T.A.S.H. tabs for each hero
• Two 2 hour Iridium Triple Boosts (XP, Rare Item Find, Special Item Find)

Only one pack can be used per account. (Sorry guys, no buying double and boost stacking.)

Bloodline Champions -- Warchief Pack
$4.99 (Normally $49.99) 90% off

Includes:

• All the bloodlines (27 of them)
• Two sets of silver outfits and one set of gold weapons
• An exclusive avatar
• The Warchief title
• 1,800 Gold Coins and 50,000 Blood Coins
• 7 day Blood Coin and XP boosts
• A replay pass
• A gender change outfit for each bloodline
• Wave, laugh, and celebrate emotes for each bloodline

The Lord of the Rings Online: Quad Pack
$9.99 (Normally $39.99) 75% off

This pack contains all four LotRO expansion packs in one purchase:

• Mines of Moria
• Siege of Mirkwood
• Rise of Isengard
• Riders of Rohan

Lord of the Rings Online: Helm's Deep Base Edition
$9.99 (Normally $39.99) 75% off

Includes:

• Rohirrim title: Enforcer of Helm
• 1,000 Turbine Points
• Hauberk of the Hammerhand -- Rohirrim cosmetic chest piece

The Lord of the Rings Online: Steely Dawn Starter Pack
$4.99 (Normally $19.99) 75% off

Includes:

• Steely Dawn Cosmetic armor set
• Evendim Quest pack
• 5 100% XP boosts
• 500 Turbine points

Trove: Arcanium Expedition Pack
$4.99 (Normally $19.99) 75% off

The Arcanium Expedition pack is a special steampunk-themed pack for Trove. It also contains some items related to some of Valve's most popular games on Steam: Half-Life 2 and Portal.

Includes:

• Arcanium Steamboat
• Acranium Crawler Mount
• Arcanium Dicord Wings
• The Orange Block x2 (Share with a friend)
  • Headcrab hat
  • Crowbar weapon
  • Companion Cube ally

Orcs Must Die! Unchained -- Ultimate Pack
$12.49 (Normally $49.99) 75% off

This hefty bundle comes with heroes, boost and a whole lot more, including:

• Heroes: Ivy, Midnight, Dobbin, Cygnus, and Oziel
• Consumables:
  • 5 Potion of Health
  • 5 Rage Potion
  • 5 Scroll of the Unchained
  • 5 Scroll of Resurrection
• 5 Keystone
• $20 worth of gold (5,750 gold)
• Ring of Last Stand
• Boss: Lyzander
• The Sun Guardian
• Fire Wall Bracers

Orcs Must Die! Unchained -- Action Hero Pack
$4.99 ($19.99) 75% off

Like the previous Orcs Must Die! Unchained pack, this one comes with heroes, consumables, and more. It includes:

• Heroes: Hogarth, Blackpaw, and Smolder
• Consumables:
  • 5 Potion of Health
  • 5 Rage Potion
  • 5 Scroll of the Unchained
• Teleportation Ring
• Dragon Guardian

Note that -- unfortunately -- items are not stackable with items from other packs. So if you pick up another pack and this one, you'll still only get 5 Potions of Health, etc.

Warframe: Lightning Pack
$49.99 (Normally $99.99) 50% off

OK, I know I said we weren't going to do 50% off or below, but I made an exception here due to this normally being a $100 pack. Saving $50 is nothing to sneeze at. This pack comes with a lot of Platinum, Credits, boosters, Mod Cards and more, including:

• 1,500 Platinum
• 150,000 Credits
• 20 Random Card Mods
• 10 Rare Card Mods
• Lightning Dash Mod
• Retribution Mod
• Mobilize Mod
• Rush Mod
• Firewalker Mod
• 5 Exilus Adapters
• 3 day Resource Booster and Resource Drop Chance Booster
• 3 day Affinity Booster and Credit Booster

And there you have it! A pretty awesome set of deals on DLC content for some of your favorite F2P games. Of course, there are a lot more deals to be had on Steam between now and July 4, so if these aren't the ones that interest you, you're definitely going to want to hop over to Steam and keep an eye out!