Time to choose the best! The Steam Awards 2025 user voting has started on Steam
Simultaneously with the Winter Sale on Steam, the user voting has also started, which will determine the best PC games of 2025.
What is known
As part of The Steam Awards 2025, there are 11 nominations, each containing five games based on preliminary selection. Anyone can join the voting and help their favorite game win.
Four games became the leaders of the nominations: Dispatch, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — each of them is represented in two categories and claims the title of Game of the Year.
The Steam Awards 2025 Nominees
Game of the Year
- ARC Raiders
- Dispatch
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
VR Game of the Year
- Emissary Zero
- F1 25
- The Midnight Walk
- Le Mans Ultimate
- Pavlov
Labor of Love
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- No Man’s Sky
- HELLDIVERS 2
- Rust
- Dota 2
Best Game on Steam Deck
- Digimon Story: Time Stranger
- CloverPit
- Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
- Hades II
- BALL x PIT
Better With Friends Award
- PEAK
- Split Fiction
- Schedule I
- R.E.P.O.
- Battlefield 6
Outstanding Visual Style
- My Little Puppy
- FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH
- SILENT HILL f
- DOOM: The Dark Ages
- ENA: Dream BBQ
Most Innovative Gameplay
- Escape from Duckov
- Blue Prince
- ARC Raiders
- Europa Universalis V
- Mage Arena
Best Game You Suck At Award
- Path of Exile 2
- Marvel Rivals
- ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN
- Where Winds Meet
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
Best Soundtrack
- Rift of the NecroDancer
- DELTARUNE
- Tokyo Xtreme Racer
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Best Game with an Outstanding Story
- Dispatch
- Dying Light: The Beast
- The Last of Us Part II Remastered
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
- No, I’m not a Human
Sit Back and Relax Award
- Megabonk
- Slime Rancher 2
- Chill with You: Lo-Fi Story
- PowerWash Simulator 2
- RV There Yet?
The winners of The Steam Awards 2025 will be announced on January 3rd.
Join the voting!
Source: Steam
