The Steam Awards
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Vote for the 2023 Steam Award nominees during the Winter Sale starting on December 21st at 10am Pacific.

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

  • Space SlothEnglish
    31·
    11 months ago

    RDR2 beating DRG and DOTA 2 for Labor of Love is a fucking joke. Even RUST and APEX still get regular updates.

    Outstanding visual style for Atomic Heart?! Are you shitting me? Only unique visuals in that is the faceless sex bots and it’s a terrible game overall. Wholly undeserved.

    Most Innovative Gameplay for STARFIELD?! OF ALL GAMES?! Yikes. Just… fucking yikes.

    • knF@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      I had a similar reaction on these titles…honestly I felt that the results were rigged. Is it just me?

      • Space SlothEnglish
        16·
        11 months ago

        Probably just the fact that it’s a popularity contest. Doubt it’s rigged, it’s just poorly moderated and fabricated.

        • Shialac@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          But why would RDR2 Fans give it the Labor of Love award with Rockstar that abandoned it years ago to focus on selling more Microtransaction in GTA-Online

        • knF@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Thanks, makes much more sense. Too bad that some great titles lost just because they were not so popular. To be fairer Steam should add some rules like: of you didn’t play the game, you cannot vote it…

      • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        I don’t know but it would be very like Valve to put zero effort into ensuring it’s not manipulated.

        That said, most large polls trend much more mainstream than people expect.

        Starfield may have been a bold new frontier in mediocrity but it nevertheless had about 2 million more chances to be someomes favorite game compared to some indie title.

    • CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      It’s not even that big of a surprise after last year’s “best VR game” was Hitman 3. That game’s VR support is, excuse my language, absolute fucking dogshit.

      Bonelab was a disappointment, absolutely, but at least it was a proper damn VR game and not a mediocre game with VR tacked on for literally no reason but, I assume, some exec’s feature checklist