You can now buy more than 2,000 games for $5 or less on Steam

You know the drill. Deep discounts up the wazoo, stickers to earn, and new stuff in the Points Shop, all of it adding up to Valve-powered seasonal trauma inflicted on your personal finances.

And I know what you're thinking: Are there really more than 2,000 games for under $5 in the Autumn Sale? And the answer is "yes," or in that neighborhood, anyway. If you hit the "sales" option on the eternally handy SteamDB website, you can apply all sorts of filters to narrow things down as you like. Set the maximum price on the right-hand menu at $5, and blammo, there you go. (Hey, if it was hard, I wouldn't be doing it.)

The one bump in this road is that SteamDB is getting hammered right now, so the price update queue is a bit jammed: The site says there are 2,105 games currently discounted, but I don't want to commit to that 100% just in case it's off. …