Black Friday 2026 gaming deals: every store date we could confirm

Rule of this page: a date appears only if the store itself (or the publisher of the game) printed it. Where a store is silent we say so, with the date we checked, and give last year's dates clearly marked as 2025. For everything else in the season, from Christmas events to free giveaways, start at the holiday gaming hub.

Store sale dates at a glance

PlayStation Store: already running

Sony went first. The PlayStation Blog post of November 3, 2026 says the PlayStation Store Black Friday promotion starts on Wednesday, November 4 with discounts of up to 75% on thousands of PS5, PS4 and PS VR2 games, expansions and DLC. It runs through Monday, November 30 at 23:59 local time (PST, GMT or JST depending on region). New titles join on November 16, and some discounts end on November 20 at 23:59. Sony adds that offers may differ by region, so check your own store before you plan purchases around a post you read online.

Xbox and the Microsoft Store

The Microsoft Store's Black Friday page answers the date question in its FAQ: the Microsoft Black Friday sale for 2026 runs from November 19 to November 28, and may include Surface, Xbox consoles, games and accessories. Xbox Wire, where Microsoft lists the actual game discounts, had no 2026 post on November 13, 2026.

Last year (2025): Xbox Wire announced its Black Friday sale on November 20, 2025, with up to 75% off select Xbox games and up to 85% off select PC games, running through December 3, 2025.

Epic Games Store, Steam, Nintendo, GOG and Humble

• Epic Games Store. Epic's own promotional guide for developers, posted on the Unreal Engine forums on August 24, 2026, lists a "Black Friday: Premium Editions Sale" from November 17 to December 1, 2026, focused only on Deluxe, Gold and similar premium editions, followed by the Holiday Sale from December 10, 2026 to January 7, 2027. This is Epic's partner schedule, not a consumer announcement, so exact start times are not public yet.
• Steam. Valve's Steamworks calendar has nothing between the Auto-Battler RPG Fest (November 16 to November 23, 2026) and the Winter Sale. PC Gamer's sale table lists a Black Friday Sale with "exact dates TBA". Last year (2025) Steam ran its first ever Black Friday Sale, which PC Gamer reported on November 24, 2025 as running until December 1, 2025, with no Points Shop freebies or trading cards. Treat a 2026 repeat as possible, not confirmed. The sure thing is the Steam Winter Sale.
• Nintendo eShop. Not announced on November 13, 2026. Last year (2025) VICE reported on November 10, 2025 that the eShop Black Friday sale would start on Thursday, November 20, 2025.
• GOG. Not announced on November 13, 2026. GOG's last big sale was the Autumn Sale that started on September 25, 2026. Last year (2025) the GOG Winter Sale started on December 11, 2025 and ended on January 3, 2026 at 8 AM UTC.
• Humble. Not announced on November 13, 2026, and we could not open a reliable source for last year's dates, so we give none.

World of Warships: Black Friday 2026 is live

Wargaming's official post of October 29, 2026 is the most detailed Black Friday announcement of any game we cover. The event runs until December 3, 2026 at 03:00 CET. It adds four new Black Friday ships, X Incheon B, IX Victoria B, VIII Hornet B and VIII Flandre B, each with an enemy destruction counter built into its permanent camouflage, and brings back 34 earlier Black Friday ships such as IX Alaska B, VIII Asashio B, IX Jean Bart B and VIII Massachusetts B.

Most of it is sold through Black Friday containers, which share a pool of 35 ships. The official page gives the drop odds: one container type has a 12% ship chance with a guaranteed ship on the 15th, the other 0.4% with a guarantee on the 600th. The free part matters more for most players: free daily random bundles, weekly supplies and "Black Friday Squadron" missions you play in pairs, with combat missions open until January 3, 2027. The post gives no prices in the text, so neither do we.

World of Tanks, Pokemon GO and the rest

World of Tanks has put the event in its official November 2026 calendar, "Black Friday and Thanksgiving" from November 23 to November 30, 2026, but had not published the vehicles or discounts on November 13, 2026. Last year (2025) the official specials ran premium vehicle bundles from November 21 to November 24, 2025, with the Schwarzpanzer 58 and T34 B at 40% off, a Black Friday Resource Pack, Thanksgiving missions from November 24 to November 28, 2025 and Twitch Drops. Our World of Tanks events guide covers how those missions work.

WoT Monthly November 2026 (official World of Tanks channel)

Pokemon GO runs a Black Friday web store sale: double bonus PokeCoins from November 8 at 17:00 PST until November 29, 2026 at 20:00 PST, according to the official post of November 9, 2026. Codes and free items are on our Pokemon GO promo codes page.

No Black Friday 2026 post yet (checked November 13, 2026): Raid: Shadow Legends (the latest Plarium news is the Halloween promo of October 26, 2026), Hero Wars, Genshin Impact and Fortnite. For free rewards in those games, codes are the better bet: see Raid codes, Hero Wars codes and Genshin codes.

Spend nothing: the free alternative

Black Friday is also a good moment to remember that some of the best PC games cost nothing. World of Sea Battle is a free sailing MMO from Thera Interactive on Steam: you trade, fight NPC fleets and players, build ships and run your own island. The Steam page asks for very little, 2 GB of RAM and 2 GB of storage, and Valve rates it Playable on Steam Deck. If you want a long winter project without a shopping cart, start with our beginner guide.

How to shop the sales without regret

1. Wishlist first, buy later. On Steam, a wishlisted game sends you an email when it is discounted by 20% or more (Valve's own wishlist rules).
2. Know the refund rules. Steam refunds any purchase requested within 14 days and played under two hours. Other stores are stricter, so read theirs before buying.
3. Compare with the next sale. If a game is not in PlayStation's first wave, it may join on November 16. If Steam has no Black Friday deal, the Winter Sale starts on December 17, 2026.
4. Gift cards are not deals. Buy them for gifts, never to pay someone. Our gift cards guide covers region locks and scams.

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