The annual Steam Autumn Sale is on again and there are thousands of games with deep discounts in the store.

Here are ten that cost less than $5 each, all of which I’ve played and enjoyed myself, and which have positive reviews on the Steam store. For each game, I’ve listed its price and Steam review rating after the title.

1. West Of Loathing ($3.40, very positive)

West of Loathing is a stick drawing version of Red Dead Redemption with a sense of humor. Alright, it’s not much like Red Dead other than the Wild West setting, but it’s a delightful role-playing game that will run on anything more powerful than a Casio calculator and has a great mix of turn-based combat, puzzles and excruciating one-liners.

2. Frostpunk ($2.99, very positive)

Frostpunk could barely be more different from West of Loathing , but it’s no less brilliant. Set in a Victorian-era world that’s suffering a catastrophic ice age, your job is to pump enough warmth into the last surviving city on Earth and expand across the frozen tundra. You’ll be faced with an unrelenting set of bleak choices and the constant threat of mutiny, but the satisfaction of keeping your city alive is immense, as are the graphics. The sequel, Frostpunk 2 , is also 55% off if you find yourself consumed by the cold.

3. This Is The Police ($3.74, mostly positive)

You’re Jack Boyd, the police chief of Freeburg, who’s getting shoved into an early retirement by a corrupt mayor. Your task is to shovel $500,000 into your retirement fund before you’re shoved out the door with your cardboard carton, and that means both managing the day-to-day of solving cases and navigating the politics of your mafia-invested city. It’s part resource management, part click-and-choose adventure that’s well written and acted. Beware, if you’re buying for Mac that it doesn’t run on Apple Silicon. It’s been around a while…

4. Two Point Campus ($2.99, very positive)

It’s not as popular as some of Two Point’s other titles such as Museum and Hospital , but Two Point Campus is still a very decent game (89% of Steam reviewers agree) and especially at this price. The goal of this management sim is to keep academic achievement soaring while providing enough extra-curricular activities for your demanding/dim-witted students. Controls can be finicky, but it’s still a high achiever.

5. Euro Truck Simulator 2/American Truck Simulator (both $4.99, both overwhelmingly positive)

We’re bundling these two titles together because they’re basically the same game in different settings. There’s no logical reason why driving a 12-wheeler carrying a load of metal rods across country should make for a compelling video game, but it does. It’s oddly relaxing to take to the road, switch on the in-game radio, and drive 5,000 miles across beautifully rendered and realistic highways. DLC is taking these games in different directions: American Truck Simulator recently added cars for the first time, while Euro Truck Simulator 2 is letting you drive buses soon.

6. Firewatch ($3.99, very positive)

Set in late 1980s Wyoming, the wonderfully evocative Firewatch puts you in the shoes of Henry, whose job is to spot forest fires from his mountainside perch. His only company is his supervisor Delilah on the other end of the handheld radio… at least, his only company to begin with. The perfect graphics, terrific voice acting and a tremendous storyline make this a steal.

7. Motorsport Manager ($3.99, mostly positive)

Motorsport Manager 2 is coming next year, but in the meantime there’s little wrong with this 2016 title, which puts you in charge of an F1-like team. It will best suit petrolheads who know their torque from their downforce, but it’s accessible enough for even a casual motor racing fan to enjoy. The race management is by far the highlight, as you watch your cars zip around the track from helicopter height and pray your tyres make it to the end.

8. Donut County ($3.24, very positive)

This is a wonderfully bizarre puzzle game where you, a racoon, have to manipulate a hole across the landscape until everything in the environment has fallen down it. It’s immeasurably better than it sounds and the physics are just perfect, although I’d prefer it if the narrative scenes between each puzzle were shorter and, frankly, funnier.

9. Age Of History III ($3.99, very positive)

When you consider the massive teams that are behind rival grand strategy games such as Hearts of Iron IV or Europa Universalis V , the fact this is created by a single developer is staggeringly impressive. It doesn’t have the graphical prowess of those bigger titles (the developer has taken some stick for putting AI-generated art in the game), but it’s a gripping game at a ridiculously cheap price for a title that’s only two years old.

10. The Escapists ($2.49, very positive)

The Escapists is a pixel-art prison break, where you have to work out how to break out of your cell, past the guards and under the walls in a series of scenarios with escalating difficulty. The controls can be as frustrating as getting spotted by the guard with the spotlight, but you’ll be back digging tunnels in no time. There’s a sequel that’s priced at $4.99 if you get hooked, too.

Even if you’ve bought enough games already to last you a lifetime, the Steam Autumn Sale gives you a chance to breathe new life into them with extra DLC, much of which is heavily reduced. In the Steam store, click in the search box, choose Advanced Search and you can filter by “downloadable content” to see what’s on offer.