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- cross-posted to:
- pcgaming@lemmy.world
- games@sh.itjust.works
Game of the Year Award - Baldur’s Gate 3
VR Game of the Year Award - Labyrinthine
Labor of Love Award - Red Dead Redemption 2
Best Game on Steam Deck Award - Hogwarts Legacy
Better With Friends Award - Lethal Company
Outstanding Visual Style Award - Atomic Heart
Most Innovative Gameplay Award - Starfield
Best Game You Suck At Award - SIFU
Best Soundtrack Award - The Last of Us Part I
Outstanding Story-Rich Game Award - Baldur’s Gate 3
Sit Back and Relax Award - Dave the Diver
It was an easy call to make. Steam Awards are voted by the public, so it’s all about name recognition.
The other finalists in that category were Shadow of Doubt, Contraband Police, Remnant II, and Your Only Move Is Hustle. Of all these, I had heard about Starfield and Remnant II.
I’m sure some of these games are awesome and I want to check them out by virtue of being finalists, but it was pretty clear Starfield was gonna win on brand recognition alone.
Exactly. It’s pretty hard to vote for a category when you don’t even know half of the games. When it came to the most innovative category I imagine most people had only heard of Starfield. Remnant 2 was good, but it was always a more niche title and it got largely overshadowed by BG3 releasing only a week later.
And of the indie titles I had only heard of Shadows of Doubt which I think is really innovative. It’s sort of a procedurally generated detective game where you’re solving crimes while technically also committing crimes. But it’s in early access and is not an easily accessible game, so I don’t really fault it for not doing the rounds in the gaming circles.