Forget planning for the beach, it’s time to get planning for the Steam Summer Sale. This gives you a historical look at the price of all Steam games, letting you see just how many pennies have been saved. Steam Summer Sale may run from June 22-July 5, according to Steamworks screenshots. Use this browser extension: Want to make sure you're getting a good deal? Use the Enhanced Steam browser extension.Save some cash, and only grab the ones you're really going to play – keep in mind that if you wait a while, the games will almost certainly get cheaper as they get older. But the Steam Sales of yesteryear have proved that our desire for overflowing game libraries leaves us with more titles than we could ever humanly play. Only buy what you'll actually play right away: Once those 75% off signs start floating around, you're going to want to break open the piggy-bank.These are the ones where you may fall into impulse-buy territory. Highlighted deals are where the real savings are: The majority of the Steam store back-catalogue will get some sort of price cut, but it's the 'Highlighted' deals (the ones promoted on the Steam front splash page) that tend to be more heavily discounted.As you'd imagine, the value diminishes if you've already got a few bundled titles in your library. If there's a suite of titles from a publisher like Square Enix or Activision that you've never played before, this is the best – and cheapest – way to bag them all at once. Bundles are great: Publishers often pull their titles together in sale mega-packs, ramping up the savings to even greater heights.Use your Steam Wishlist: Fill it up with all the games you're interested in picking up, and you'll be alerted the moment they go on sale, and how much they've been discounted by.Finding bargains isn't too difficult, but there are a few techniques and tricks that are worth using if you want to get the most out of the sales.