On tomorrow’s Thursday (20.12.2018) the 12. annual Steam Winter Sale starts and the voting for the Steam Awards begins. There are also some titles available for Linux nominated… ;-)
Announcing The Steam Awards 2018 Nominees The Steam Community has spoken, and we are proud to announce the finalists for The Steam Awards 2018 – but we still need your help choosing the winners! Voting will open on December 20th, at the start of the 12th annual Steam Winter Sale. Vote in each of our 8 categories to share your top Steam games and developers from 2018 and obtain this year’s set of trading cards. Voting closes January 3rd and winners will be announced early February 2019. Good luck to all of our nominees! Nominees for Game of the Year PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD Kingdom Come: Deliverance HITMAN™ 2 Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Nominees for VR Game of the Year The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR VRChat Beat Saber Fallout 4 VR SUPERHOT VR Nominees for Labor of Love Dota 2 Grand Theft Auto V No Man’s Sky Path of Exile Stardew Valley Nominees for Best Environment The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt Subnautica Shadow of the Tomb Raider Far Cry 5 DARK SOULS™ III Nominees for Better with Friends Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Siege PAYDAY 2 Dead by Daylight Overcooked! 2 Nominees for Best Alternate History Wolfeinstein II: The New Colossus Assassin’s Creed® Odyssey Hearts of Iron IV Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI Fallout 4 Nominees for Most Fun with a Machine Euro Truck Simulator 2 Rocket League NieR:Automata Factorio Space Engineers Nominees for Best Developer CD PROJEKT RED Ubisoft Bethesda Rockstar Games Digital Extremes Ltd. Square Enix Capcom Paradox Interactive BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Klei Notes on Best Developer category: “Best Developer” proved to be a highly-contested category with a lot of close calls among the top nominees. As a result, we expanded the set of nominees to 10. In addition, we’ve excluded ourselves from this category. We appreciate the love you’ve shown us, but we want to honor the other awesome developers on Steam, so we have excluded Valve from the final tally.