2019’s Steam Awards are over, and the list of winners have been announced by Valve.

First, let’s see the list of winners:

 

Game of the Year: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

VR Game of the Year: Beat Saber

Labour of Love (for the continuous support of a game): Grand Theft Auto V

Better with Friends (co-op award): DayZ

Most Innovative Gameplay: My Friend Pedro

Outstanding Story-Rich Game: A Plague Tale: Innocence

Best Game You Suck At: Mortal Kombat 11

Outstanding Visual Style: Gris

 

FromSoftware’s game got another game of the year award, as Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice has also won at 2019 The Game Awards. Amongst the VR games, the victory of Beat Saber isn’t a surprise (the game got the attention of Facebook who acquired the developers, that says it all). Grand Theft Auto V’s success is also not surprising: Rockstar and Take-Two continue to support Grand Theft Auto Online, which became such a cash cow that nor GTA V, neither Red Dead Redemption 2 are getting single-player DLC (as it’s not worth it financially for them). In the co-op category, DayZ’s win might be shocking, but the other competitors (Risk of Rain 2, Dota Underlords, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, Ring of Elysium) explain why this game won. My Friend Pedro’s gameplay isn’t that innovative (bullet-time side-scrolling shoot’em up), but in the Summer, the Devolver-published game was refreshing on PC and the Switch. Plague Tale: Innocence was one of the pleasant surprises of 2019 with a heartwrenching story. Mortal Kombat 11’s competitors were in another category, to be frank (Mordhau, Code Vein, Hunt: Showdown, Remnant From The Ashes…), but Gris’ victory is another one that we can’t doubt.

Congratulations to the Steam Awards winners, and let’s hope 2020 will bring both good games and terrible ones.

Source: GameSpot