The Winners of the third annual Steam Awards have been revealed by Valve over on the Steam blog.
Each year Valve Corp. hosts a community vote on the best game of the year on the ubiquitous PC game store. In addition to choosing the game of the year, Steam users get to vote on a series of ever-evolving other categories. This year’s list of categories includes, Game of the Year, VR Game of the Year, Labor of Love, Better With Friends, Most Innovative Gameplay, Outstanding Story-Rich Game of the Year, Best Game You Suck At, and finally Outstanding Visual Style.
Most of this year’s categories are fairly self-explanatory with the exception of Labor of Love which is the Steam Awards category for what is sometimes called Live Games or Service Games. Games that weren’t released this year but never-the-less were still being played a lot this year because their developers were continuously adding content throughout the year.
Here are the winners if the Steam Awards as chosen by the community:
Game of the Year
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
VR Game of the Year
- Beat Saber
Labor Of Love
- Grand Theft Auto Five
Better With Friends
- DayZ
Most Innovative Gameplay
- My Friend Pedro
Outstanding Story Rich Game of the Year
- A Plague Tale: Innocence
Best Game You Suck At
- Mortal Kombat 11
Outstanding Visual Style
- Gris
And these were some of the games in contention that came close but didn’t quite make the cut:
Resident Evil 2
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Destiny 2
Blade & Sorcery
Gorn
Borderlands 2 VR
Five Nights At Freddy’s: Help Wanted
Labor of Love
Warframe
Rainbow Six: Siege
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
DOTA 2
Risk of Rain 2
DOTA Underlords
Age of Empires 2
Ring of Elysium
Baba is You
Slay the Spire
Oxygen Not Included
Planet Zoo
Outstanding Story-Rich Game of the Year
- Disco Elysium
- Farcry New Dawn
- Gears 5
- GreedFall
- Best Game You Suck At
Mordhau
Code Vein
Hunt
Remnant From the Ashes
Total War: Three Kingdoms
Astroneer
Katana Zero
Subnautica: Below Zero
Baba is You got robbed in that Most Innovative Gameplay category if you ask me.