The nominees for the 2025 Steam Awards have been chosen, and voting is now open to pick out the winners. Steam users can forged their vote until January 3 at 10:00 AM Pacific, at which point Steam will announce the winners. Voting for the nominees kicked off on November 24 and gave users the prospect to nominate their selections for every category.
For probably the most part, this yr’s nominees make sense for every category, which is truthfully surprising whenever you let most people select. Personally, I’m surprised that Megabonk didn’t get nominated for the Best Game on Steam Deck Award because I actually think it’s an important game to play on the Steam Deck. I also think it’s funny that it got nominated within the Sit Back and Loosen up Award, because that game isn’t relaxing. My Little Puppy, which got a nod under the Outstanding Visual Style Award, is a game I had never heard of, nevertheless it looks lovely.
Finally, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is noticeably missing from the Outstanding Story-Wealthy Game Award. Perhaps it’s fatigue from the sport already winning so many awards, nevertheless it still deserves a nod over Dying Light: The Beast. Look, we loved Dying Light: The Beast and consider it certainly one of our favourite games of 2025, but its story was not the rationale to play it.
Game of the 12 months Award
- Dispatch
- Hole Knight: Silksong
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- ARC Raiders
VR Game of the 12 months Award
- The Midnight Walk
- F1 25
- Pavlov
- Le Mans Ultimate
- Emissary Zero
Labor of Love Award
Best Game on Steam Deck Award
Higher With Friends Award
Outstanding Visual Style Award
Most Revolutionary Gameplay Award
- Escape From Duckov
- Europa Universalis V
- Mage Arena
- Blue Prince
- ARC Raiders
Best Game You Suck at Award
Best Soundtrack Award
Outstanding Story-Wealthy Game Award
- Dying Light: The Beast
- No, I’m Not a Human
- Dispatch
- The Last of Us Part II Remastered
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Sit Back and Loosen up Award
- PowerWash Simulator 2
- Chill with You : Lo-Fi Story
- Megabonk
- Slime Rancher 2
- RV There Yet?