Valve’s digital store also summarizes annually which games are stored in their respective categories, and there are no outstanding surprises among the Steam Awards winners.

The list speaks for us. We listed the nominees in each category, with the winner in bold.

Game of the Year:

• Resident Evil: Village
• Valheim
• New World
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Forza Horizon 5

VR Game of the Year:

• Cooking Simulator VR
• Sniper Elite VR
• Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond
• I Expect You to Die 2
• Blair Witch VR Edition

Labour of Love (Best Live Service):

• Terraria
• DOTA 2
• Rust
• No Man’s Sky
• Apex Legends

Better With Friends:

• It Takes Two
• Valheim
• Back 4 Blood
• Halo Infinite
• Crab Game

Outstanding Visual Style:

• Forza Horizon 5
• Psychonauts 2
• Subnautica: Below Zero
• Little Nightmares II
• Bright Memory Infinite

Most Innovative Gameplay:

• Deathloop
• Inscyrption
• Twelve Minutes
• Moncage
• Loop Hero

Best Game You Suck At:

• Nioh 2
• World War Z: Aftermath
• Naraka: Bladepoint
• Age of Empires IV
• Battlefield 2042

Best Soundtrack:

• Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
• NieR Replicant
• Persona 5 Strikers
• Guilty Gear Strive
• Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles

Outstanding Story Game:

• Cyberpunk 2077
• Life is Strange: True Colors
• Resident Evil: Village
• Days Gone
• Mass Effect Legendary Edition

Sit Back and Relax:

• Farming Simulator 22
• Unpacking
• Potion Craft
• Townscaper
• Dorf Romantik

So Capcom has pulled in the Game of the Year category with Resident Evil 8 (because Village is just that!), but Terraria got the prize taken away from No Man’s Sky. Although Cyberpunk 2077 is still a long way to improve (perhaps the next significant update, due to launch along with the next-gen versions, can help), it somehow won with its story, which feels somewhat weird.

Still, we can now end another year of pestilence. Congratulations to all the winners. We can expect a more decisive year in gaming.

Source: WCCFTech