The Steam Awards 2024 Nominees

What is Steam?

Steam is a digital platform for buying, playing, and discussing video games. It offers a large game library, automatic updates, cloud storage, and multiplayer matchmaking. Steam also has community features like messaging, forums, and a marketplace. It sells hardware like the Steam Deck and Valve Index. Steam is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Chromebook, with a mobile app for Android and iOS.

Now to the juicy details…the esteemed Steam Awards nominees

Game of the Year

• Black Myth: Wukong
• Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
• Balatro
• Helldivers 2
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

VR Game of the Year

• Metro Awakening VR
• Davigo
• Maestro
• Blade and Sorcery
• Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted 2

Labor of Love

• Stardew Valley
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Dota 2
• No Man’s Sky
• Elden Ring

Best Game on Steam Deck

• Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
• Balatro
• Hades 2
• God of War: Ragnarok
• Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

Better with Friends

• Palworld
• Helldivers 2
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
• Sons of the Forest
• Satisfactory

Outstanding Visual Style

• Silent Hill 2
• Neva
• Nine Sols
• Metaphor ReFantazio
• Hades 2

Most Innovative Gameplay

• Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
• Balatro
• Helldivers 2
• Liar’s Bar
• Satisfactory

Best Game You Suck At

• Black Myth Wukong
• Ghost of Tsushima
• Dragon Ball Sparking Zero
• The Finals
• Tekken 8

Best Soundtrack

• Silent Hill 2
• Red Dead Redemption
• Fate Stay Night
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Frostpunk 2

Outstanding Story-Rich Game

• Black Myth Wukong
• Ghost of Tsushima
• Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
• Mouthwashing
• Final Fantasy XVI

Sit Back and Relax

• Tiny Glade
• House Flipper 2
• Farming Simulator 25
• Webfishing
• TCG Card Shop Simulator

Voting ends on the 31st December and the winners announced Jan 1, 5:00 AM GMT+11. What a way to end the year with a bang!