Voting Is Now Open For The 2025 Steam Awards

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Another year has gone by, and it's time for the 2025 Steam Awards, giving you the chance to vote for your favorite games in a wide range of 11 categories, from the Best Game on Steam Deck to the most Innovative Gameplay, Best Game you Suck At, to your Game of the Year!

It's also a great year for Steam Deck, with 4 out of the 5 GOTY nominees bearing the Verified on Steam Deck badge.

Without any further ado, here are the nominees that you can vote for in each category:

Game of the Year:

Awarded for your favorite game released this year.

• Dispatch (Verified)
• Hollow Knight: Silksong (Verified)
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (Playable)
• ARC Raiders (Verified)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Verified)

VR Game of the Year:

Awarded for your favorite game released this year that is playable in VR.

• Le Mans Ultimate (Unsupported)
• Emissary Zero (Playable)
• EA Sports F1 25 (Unsupported)
• The Midnight Walk (Playable)
• Pavlov (Unsupported)

Labor of Love Award:

Awarded for an older release that is still receiving updates from the developers.

• Baldur's Gate 3 (Verified)
• Helldivers 2 (Playable)
• DOTA 2 (Playable)
• No Man's Sky (Verified)
• Rust (Unsupported)

Best Game on Steam Deck Award:

Awarded for the best game to play on the Steam Deck.

• Hades II (Verified)
• CloverPit (Verified)
• Digimon Story: Time Stranger (Verified)
• BALL x PIT (Verified)
• Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor (Verified)

Better With Friends Award:

Awarded for the best game to play with your friends.

• PEAK (Verified)
• R.E.P.O (Playable)
• Schedule I (Playable)
• Battlefield 6 (Unsupported)
• Split Fiction (Verified)

Outstanding Visual Style Award:

Awarded to the game with the best visual styling.

• My Little Puppy (Verified)
• Silent Hill f (Playable)
• DOOM: The Dark Ages (Verified)
• ENA: Dream BBQ (Verified)
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Verified)

Most Innovative Gameplay Award:

Awarded to the game that pushed expectations and gave fresh perspectives.

• Escape from Duckov (Playable)
• Mage Arena (Playable)
• Europa Universalis V (Playable)
• ARC Raiders (Verified)
• Blue Prince (Playable)

Best Game You Suck At Award:

Self-explanatory. You're awful at it, but you still love it.

• Where Winds Meet (Unsupported)
• Hollow Knight: Silksong (Verified)
• Path of Exile 2 (Playable)
• Marvel Rivals (Playable)
• Elden Ring Nightreign (Playable)

Best Soundtrack Award:

Awarded to the game that you just couldn't stop listening to.

• Tokyo Xtreme Racer (Playable)
• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Verified)
• DELTARUNE (Verified)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Verified)
• Rift of the NecroDancer (Verified)

Outstanding Story-Rich Game Award:

The game where the story hit just right.

• The Last of Us Part II Remastered (Verified)
• Dispatch (Verified)
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (Playable)
• No, I'm not a Human (Playable)
• Dying Light: The Beast (Verified)

Sit Back and Relax Award:

Sometimes you need a break. These are the games you turned to when you needed to unwind.

• PowerWash Simulator 2 (Verified)
• Chill with You : Lo-Fi Story (Playable)
• RV There Yet? (Verified)
• Megabonk (Verified)
• Slime Rancher 2 (Verified)

Those are all the awards for this year's The Steam Awards 2025. You can vote for your favorite games over on The Steam Awards page until January 3rd, and once you do, let us know which games you voted for in the comments below!

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