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The Steam Awards 2017 Nominees Announced

The Steam Awards, Valve’s new yearly tradition is a lot more laid back than the Game Awards, but none the less just as fun. Nominated by Steam users in the months leading up to the Steam Winter Sale, PC gamers vote on games each day to net themselves a Steam Trading Card. This year’s nominees are as follows:

Choices Matter

  • The Witcher III: Wild Hunt
  • Dishonored 2
  • Divinity: Original Sin 2
  • The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
  • Life is Strange: Before the Storm

Mom’s Spaghetti

  • Alien: Isolation
  • Outlast 2
  • Resident Evil 7 biohazard
  • PlayerUNKNOWN’s Battlegrounds
  • The Evil Within 2

Labor of Love

  • Team Fortress 2
  • Crusader Kings II
  • Warframe
  • Path of Exile
  • Titan Quest

Suspension of Disbelief

  • Saints Row IV
  • Rocket League
  • Goat Simulator
  • South Park: The Fractured but Whole
  • Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

The World is Grim Enough Let’s Just All Get Along

  • To the Moon
  • Cities: Skyline
  • Abzu
  • Stardew Valley
  • Slime Rancher

No Apologies

  • The Witcher
  • Gothic II
  • Mount & Blade: Warband
  • Rust
  • Huniepop

Defies Description

  • Garry’s Mod
  • Antichamber
  • The Stanley Parable
  • Pony Island
  • Doki Doki Literature Club!

Cry Havoc and Let Slip The Dogs of War

  • Red Faction Guerrilla
  • Just Cause 3
  • Broforce
  • Middle-Earth: Shadow of War
  • Total War: Warhammer II

Haunts my Dreams

  • DOTA 2
  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
  • Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
  • Dark Souls III
  • Factorio

Soul of Vitruvius

  • I Am Bread
  • Rise of the Tomb Raider
  • Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
  • Bayonetta
  • Nier: Automata

Whoooaaaaaaa, Dude! 2.0

  • Antichamber
  • Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
  • CPU Invaders
  • The Evil Within 2
  • Luna

Best Soundtrack

  • Transistor
  • Crypt of the Necrodancer
  • Cuphead
  • Undertail
  • Nier: Automata

Even Better than I Expected

  • Cuphead
  • Hollow Knight
  • Call of Duty WWII
  • Assassin’s Creed Origins
  • Sonic Mania
Jamie Laike Tsui
Jamie Laike Tsui
Jamie is the Managing Editor at Capsule Computers and has covered video games and technology for over a decade. When not playing or writing about video games, he can be found studying law or nerding out on fountain pens and stationery.