Time to choose the best! The Steam Awards 2025 user voting has started on Steam

By: Anton Kratiuk | today, 07:01

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