We can only imagine the Steam Summer Sale’s header image will be loaded with more characters and activity by the time the sale closes on July 4. (credit: Steam)

Ladies and gentlemen, start your game-buying wallets: The annual Steam Summer Sale has arrived.

The online game shop’s bandwidth is currently being slammed thanks to the popularity of this sale, but should you be able to load its launch page, you’ll see an advertised discount on a whopping 5,199 games until the sale ends on July 4. Thanks to the launch of VR headsets such as the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, that makes this the first Steam Summer Sale to reduce prices on virtual reality games.

Not every major SteamVR game is getting a discount during this sale, but if you’re considering throwing down hundreds of dollars on compatible hardware, you may appreciate saving a few bucks on such solid VR fare as the music-punching gem Audioshield, the stellar VR deathmatch game Hover Junkers, the must-own arcade shooter Space Pirate Trainer, the sword-and-shield quest game Vanishing Realms, the plane-management challenge of Final Approach, and the two-player puzzle fun of Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. (That last one works fine without VR, as well, and we heartily recommend it.)