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