Valve announced The list of winners for the annual The Steam Awards 2020 live streamed online. Steam users could pick the best in each of ten nominations during the winter sale from December 22nd to January 3rd.
Steam’s Game of the Year was Red Dead Redemption 2, which was released on PC in 2019. Rockstar Games also won Best Game with an Outstanding Story, beating Horizon Zero Dawn.
Among VR projects, Half-Life: Alyx won, as expected and deservedly so. Separately, we can note the victory of CS: GO in the “Favorite Child” nomination.
Below is a complete list of The Steam Awards 2020 nominees and winners (in bold).
“Game of the Year”
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Hades
- DOOM Eternal
- Fall Guys
- Death Stranding
Virtual Reality Game of the Year
- Half-Life: Alyx
- Phasmophobia
- The Room VR: A Dark Matter
- Thief Simulator VR
- STAR WARS: Squadrons
“Beloved child”
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Among Us
- Terraria
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- No Man’s Sky
“Friend is known in trouble”
- Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
- Sea of Thieves
- Borderlands 3
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Risk of Rain 2
“Outstanding visual style”
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- Battlefield V
- There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
- Marvel’s Avengers
- Black Mesa
Most Innovative Gameplay
- Death Stranding
- Control Ultimate Edition
- Superliminal
- Witch
- Teardown
“The Best Game You Can’t Give”
- Apex Legends
- Crusader Kings III
- Ghostrunner
- EA SPORTS FIFA 21
- GTFO
Best Soundtrack
- DOOM Eternal
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection
- Helltaker
- Need for Speed Heat
- Persona 4 Golden
Best Game, Outstanding Storyline
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Detroit: Become Human
- Mafia: Definitive Edition
- Metro Exodus
- Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition
“Sit back”
- The Sims 4
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Satisfactory
- Untitled Goose Game
- Factorio
Past winners:
Previously, Valve also named the most popular games and revenue leaders on the Steam store at the end of 2020.
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