Steam Deals, Week of Oct 12: 10 Games Checked — Buy or Wait? (5 rated Buy Now) | Cart or Wait?

We checked 10 Steam deals against two years of price history — 5 are rated Buy Now. US prices as of Oct 12, 2026. 0:00 Intro 0:12 Darkwood 0:54 The Talos Principle 2 1:49 Nobody Wants to Die 2:41 Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator 3:32 Return to Monkey Island 4:21 Terraria 5:20 Darkest Dungeon 6:18 Red Dead Redemption 2 7:14 Total War: THREE KINGDOMS 8:04 TEKKEN 8 8:59 This Week's Top 3 Buys 9:19 Wrap-up 🎮 This week's games — verdict · price · sale end 1. Darkwood — Buy Now · $1.99 (90% off, was $19.99) · Sale ends Oct 22, 1 PM ET Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/27... Price history: https://cartorwait.com/game/274520 2. The Talos Principle 2 — Buy Now · $2.99 (90% off, was $29.99) · Sale ends Oct 15, 1 PM ET Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/83... Price history: https://cartorwait.com/game/835960 3. Nobody Wants to Die — Buy Now · $2.49 (90% off, was $24.99) · Sale ends Oct 15, 1 PM ET Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/19... Price history: https://cartorwait.com/game/1939970 4. Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — Buy Now · $2.99 (90% off, was $29.99) · Sale ends Oct 19, 1 PM ET Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/11... Price history: https://cartorwait.com/game/1122340 5. Return to Monkey Island — Buy Now · $6.24 (75% off, was $24.99) · Sale ends Oct 15, 1 PM ET Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/20... Price history: https://cartorwait.com/game/2060130 6. Terraria — Good Buy · $4.99 (50% off, was $9.99) · Sale ends Oct 15, 1 PM ET Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/10... Price history: https://cartorwait.com/game/105600 7. Darkest Dungeon — Good Buy · $3.74 (85% off, was $24.99) · Sale ends Oct 22, 1 PM ET Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/26... Price history: https://cartorwait.com/game/262060 8. Red Dead Redemption 2 — Good Buy · $14.99 (75% off, was $59.99) · Sale ends Oct 22, 1 PM ET Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/11... Price history: https://cartorwait.com/game/1174180 9. Total War: THREE KINGDOMS — Not Now · $11.99 (70% off, was $39.99) · Sale ends Oct 15, 1 PM ET Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/77... Price history: https://cartorwait.com/game/779340 10. TEKKEN 8 — Not Now · $23.99 (40% off, was $39.99) · Sale ends Oct 22, 1 PM ET Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/17... Price history: https://cartorwait.com/game/1778820 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛒 Cart or Wait? Is that Steam sale actually a good price? We check every deal against its own two-year price history and give it one of five verdicts: Buy Now · Good Buy · Fair Deal · Wait · Not Now. The verdict comes from fixed, published rules — same data in, same verdict out. No hype, just the numbers. New episode every Tuesday, plus a Short every day. 📊 All verdicts and price charts: https://cartorwait.com 📐 How the verdicts work: https://cartorwait.com/about Prices are from the US Steam store as of Oct 12, 2026; they may change. Sale end times are Eastern Time (ET). Data: Steam · IsThereAnyDeal · ProtonDB (ODbL). Game names and trademarks belong to their owners.