Valve Announces Steam Awards 2020 Winners

Video game digital distribution service, Steam announced the winners of the Steam Awards 2020. This is the fifth year when they presented the Steam Awards. This year Red Dead Redemption 2 won two awards.

The Steam Awards are an annual user-voted award event held for video games published on Valve’s Steam service. The nomination for this year’s awards began on November 25, 2020 and the winners got announced on January 3, 2021. Only the games released in 2020 were nominated for the awards except for the “Labor of Love” category.

Let’s take a look at the categories of awards with their winner and nominees:

GAME OF THE YEAR

• Red Dead Redemption 2 ( Winner )
• HADES
• Doom Eternal
• Fall Guys
• Death Stranding

VR GAME OF THE YEAR

• Half-Life ALYX ( Winner )
• Phasmophobia
• The Room: A Dark Matter
• Thief Simulator
• StarWars Squadrons

SIT BACK AND RELAX

• The Sims 4 ( Winner )
• Microsoft Flight Simulator
• Satisfactory: Early Access
• Untitled Goose Game by House House
• Factori

BEST SOUNDTRACK

• DOOM Eternal ( Winner )
• HALO
• Helltaker
• Deluxe Edition NFS
• P4G

OUTSTANDING VISUAL STYLE

• Ori and the Will of the Wisps ( Winner )
• Battlefield V
• There is No Game
• Marvel Avengers
• BLACK MESA

BEST GAME YOU SUCK AT

• Apex Legends ( Winner )
• Crusader Kings III
• GhostRunner
• FIFA 21
• GTFO

OUTSTANDING STORY- RICH GAME

• Red Dead Redemption 2 ( Winner )
• Detroit
• Mafia
• Metro Exodus
• Horizon Zero Dawn

MOST INNOVATIVE GAMEPLAY

• Death Stranding ( Winner )
• Control
• Superliminal
• Noita
• Teardown

BETTER WITH FRIENDS

• Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout ( Winner )
• Sea Of Thieves
• Borderlands 3
• Deep Rock Galactic
• Risk of Rain 2

LABOR OF LOVE

• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive ( Winner )
• Among Us
• Terraria
• The WITCHER Wild Hunt
• No Man’s Sky

If you are a gamer and want to explore new games then you should try these games which got nominated for The Steam Awards 2020. Steam is a leading video game distribution website where you can find and buy your choice of game. It was launched in September 2003 by Valve Corporation.