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The Steam Awards
Annual awards event hosted by Valve From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Steam Awards are an annual user-voted award event for video games published on Valve's Steam service. Introduced in 2016, game nomination and voting periods are concurrent with Steam's annual autumn and winter holiday sales, centered around the holidays of American Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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The Steam Awards are selected in two phases. In the first phase, Valve selects a number of categories, atypical of those used in gaming awards, and allows any registered Steam user to select one game available on Steam for that category. Valve subsequently reviews the nominations and then selects the top five games for final voting. These nominations are then presented to Steam users, giving them the opportunity to vote in each category. Following this, Valve announces the winners.[1] Game nomination and voting periods are concurrent with Steam's annual autumn and winter holiday sales, centered around the holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas.[2][3]
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2016
The nomination process took place from November 23–29, 2016.[2] The voting took place from December 22–30, 2016, with the winners announced on December 31.[1][4] The awards received around 15 million nominations.[1]
2017
The nomination process took place from November 22–28, 2017.[5] The voting took place from December 20, 2017, to January 2, 2018, with the winners announced on January 3.[6][7]
2018
The nomination process began on November 21, 2018. Finalists were revealed in December, with the winners announced during a live broadcast on Steam.tv on February 8, 2019.[8][9][10] 2018 Steam Awards introduced the "Game of the Year" category.
| The "Game of the Year" Award | The "VR Game of the Year" Award |
|---|---|
| The "Labor of Love" Award | The "Best Developer" Award |
| The "Best Environment" Award | The "Better With Friends" Award |
| The "Best Alternate History" Award | The "Most Fun with a Machine" Award |
2019
The nomination process began on November 26, 2019. Finalists were revealed starting on December 11, 2019, with one category a day. Unlike previous years, eligibility for awards was restricted by release date, with only games released after November 2018 able to be nominated, except for the "Labor of Love" category.[11][12] Users were able to vote from December 19–31, with the winners announced on the final day.[13]
| The "Game of the Year" Award | The "VR Game of the Year" Award |
|---|---|
| The "Labor of Love" Award | The "Better With Friends" Award |
| The "Most Innovative Gameplay" Award | The "Outstanding Story-Rich Game" Award |
| The "Best Game You Suck At" Award | The "Outstanding Visual Style" Award |
2020
The nomination process began on November 25, 2020, with winners announced on January 3, 2021.[14] Nominees for each category were announced daily starting on December 17, 2020, with voting commencing between December 22 and January 3.[15]
2021
Nominees were announced on December 22, 2021, with voting commencing until January 3, 2022.[16][17]
2022
The nomination process took place from November 22–29, 2022. Nominees were announced on December 18, 2022, with the voting process taking place from December 22–29 while the winners were announced on January 3, 2023.[18]
2023
The nomination process took place from November 21–28, 2023. Nominees were announced on December 17, with the voting process taking place from December 21, 2023 to January 2, 2024.[19][20] Journalists highlighted some winners, such as Red Dead Redemption 2 (awarded for ongoing support despite the game receiving no major updates since 2020) and Starfield (awarded for innovation despite being received poorly on Steam);[21][22][23][24] some suspected the votes were sarcastic or ironic, while others considered them a symptom of fan voting.[25][26][27] The reception for The Last of Us Part 1 winning "Best Soundtrack Award" was poorly received, as the public questioned why a remake of a game initially made in 2013 won over game soundtracks like Pizza Tower and Hi-Fi Rush.[28]
2024
The nomination process took place from November 27 to December 4, 2024. Nominees were announced on December 17, with the voting process taking place from December 19 to December 31.[29]
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