The Steam Awards are back with the final nominees for this year as voting commences very soon.
It wasn't long ago we were all nominating our favourite games for the Steam Awards, hoping they would make the short list. The finalists have now been announced and we are able to vote from today, the 21st of December here in Australia. Voting will close on January 4th with the winners being announced in February next year.
The following 8 categories have been narrowed down to the top 5 games nominated by you. For Developer of the year, Valve expressed in the announcement that there were so many close calls between all nominations that they extended the finalists to the top 10. They also noted that they removed themselves from that list to focus on all the other great developers featured on Steam.
Nominees for Game of the Year
- PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
- MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- HITMAN™ 2
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Nominees for VR Game of the Year
Nominees for Labor of Love
Nominees for Best Environment
Nominees for Better with Friends
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Siege
- PAYDAY 2
- Dead by Daylight
- Overcooked! 2
Nominees for Best Alternate History
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
- Assassin's Creed® Odyssey
- Hearts of Iron IV
- Sid Meier's Civilization® VI
- Fallout 4
Nominees for Most Fun with a Machine
Nominees for Best Developer
- CD PROJEKT RED
- Ubisoft
- Bethesda
- Rockstar Games
- Digital Extremes Ltd.
- Square Enix
- Capcom
- Paradox Interactive
- BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
- Klei
While many of these games were not released this year, they have all certainly had a great year. The specificity of the categories also means that some of your favourites may not have been nominated but Valve always likes to have fun with their awards.
To vote for your favourites visit the Steam store voting page. Which games and/or developers do you think deserve to win? Let us know who you will be voting for!
Even though it's often the same franchises that get nominated every, I kinda like the Steam Awards. Here are my picks for anyone interested.
I played none of the nominated games so I just picked this game because of how much my friends like it.
It's the only VR game that made me consider buying a VR headset so it was a pretty easy choice, plus it's the one I had nominated already. I'm sure VR Chat will win though.
Such a lovely game, I had to vote for it. I also considered voting for No Man's Sky due to how much its developers are doing to repair the mess that was the game on release.
Random vote to be honest, haven't played any of those games yet.
It has been my go-to game for years when playing with my friends. I really wanted to see Ultimate Chicken Horse in the nominated games, sadly it isn't popular enough to be in there.
Once again, this is completely based on what my friends think of it.
It's one of my go-to games too. My second choice would have been Euro Truck Simulator 2 because of how awkwardly addictive it can be.
They keep releasing quality games, it's crazy. Plus Hot Lava is going to be an amazing parkour game, I mean it already is but it will be even more.
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Ahh CSGO was my go to game but then PUBG came out. Once I phased out of PUBG I jumped onto Overwatch and never really got back into CSGO!
Great choices there!
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I have like 10 accounts so I got all 8 cards from voting in each one of them. :)
My picks:
Game of the Year - Assassin's Creed Odyssey
VR Game of the Year - VRChat
Labor of Love - No Man's Sky
Best Environment - Witcher 3
Better with Friends - PayDay 2
Best Alternate History - Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Most Fun with a Machine - NieR:Automata (Rocket League as 2nd choice)
Best Developer - Paradox Interactive (Klei as 2nd choice)
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Haha let the best game win! I'm half way finishing odyssey! Amazing game!
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WOAH WOAH WOAH, did Stardew Valley reach nomination?? I really hope it wins, ConcernedApe would deserve it
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Some fantastic names in my books are on that list! Let the best game win! haha
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