Microsoft’s ultimate game sale has kicked off on Xbox One and Xbox 360, bringing an unbelievable number of great deals to your living room. Running from today until July 30 (so after pay pad, mercifully), the deals include older games, brand new games – as well as deals on some pre-orders.

There is one other way to celebrate the other side of the globe’s festival season, and that’s by living vicariously through the Steam Summer Sale. Because what better way is there to appreciate the warmest quarter of the year, than by staying inside and playing video games.

Start the string of long weekends right with a bunch of new games for your Nintendo Switch or 3DS, as Nintendo kicks off a massive eShop sale for some stellar titles on offer.

They say that January is the cheapest month of the year, what with many a consumer barely surviving a previous month of attempting to fill the void in their life with materialism. Well you might want to buckle your belt up further, because February is going to look like a pretty lean 28 days within which to survive as well, thanks to the latest PlayStation sale.

Why not enjoy your money rather? Why not enjoy life by closing all of your curtains barricading the doors and searing your eyeballs with mini-maps as you explore a digital landscape of beauty and brutality? Even better, you can grab a cheap game without having to step outside into gaah “natural light”. It’s a win-win scenario. Over on the PlayStation storefront, you can grab plenty of discounts. If you happen to have a PlayStation Plus account, those discounts double up for you.

After the PlayStation 3 had a sparse selection of platform-specific games under its belt, allowing Microsoft to surge ahead on the Xbox 360, Sony regained its momentum and started pumping money back into the studios contracted to it. Not every game was a winner, but when you’re batting more hits than misses then you know you’re on the right track. Which is the entire purpose of the latest PlayStation sale for its PS4, PS3 and PS Vita consoles, which casts a light on the games that you’ll only find on a Sony storefront.

You’ve just received your paycheque in the mail, and for once it didn’t bounce like a toddler flung onto a trampoline by a drunk uncle. Now you could be responsible and do adult stuff. Like pay your taxes and buy essential goods like…insurance and coffee creamer? I have no idea how to adult. OR, and hear me out here, you could spend your salary on video games instead.

This time of the year is also a perfect reminder that staying indoors might be the best decision you’ll ever make, especially when several video games are on sale. Specifically, the games on sale through the Xbox store. It’s been a while since Xbox had a properly massive sale, and they’re slashing prices on just about every single game in their library. Steamy, delicious.