Meanwhile, Valve has officially stopped supporting Windows 7/8/8.1 for Steam (but there’s a trick to it…).

On Steam you can read the winners of the latest Steam Awards. The winners are listed by category in bold. We disagree with Red Dead Redemption 2’s award (it essentially stopped getting support in July 2022), as well as Starfield’s (NOT REALLY innovative).

Game of the Year:

•     EA Sports FC 24
•     Hogwarts Legacy
•     Lethal Company
•     Baldur’s Gate 3
•     Resident Evil 4 Remake

VR Game of the Year:

•     I Expect You to Die 3
•     Ghosts of Tabor
•     Labyrinthine
•     Gorilla Tag
•     F1 23

Labor of Love:

•     Apex Legends
•     Dota 2
•     Rust
•     Deep Rock Galactic
•     Red Dead Redemption 2

Best Game on Steam Deck:

•     The Outlast Trials
•     Hogwarts Legacy
•     Dredge
•     Diablo 4
•     Brotato

Better With Friends:

•     Sunkenland
•     Lethal Company
•     Sons of the Forest
•     Party Animals
•     Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

Outstanding Visual Style:

•     Cocoon
•     Inward
•     Atomic Heart
•     Darkest Dungeon 2
•     High on Life

Most Innovative Gameplay:

•     Starfield
•     Shadows of Doubt
•     Contraband Police
•     Your Only Move is Hustle
•     Remnant 2

Best Game You Suck At:

•     Sifu
•     Overwatch 2
•     EA Sports FC 24
•     Lords of the Fallen
•     Street Fighter 6

Best Soundtrack:

•     Pizza Tower
•     Personal 5 Tacticta
•     The Last of Us Part 1
•     Chants of Sennaar
•     Hi-Fi Rush

Outstanding Story-Rich Game:

•     Love is All Around
•     Baldur’s Gate 3
•     Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
•     Resident Evil 4 Remake
•     Lies of P

Sit Back and Relax:

•     Train Sim World 4
•     Coral Island
•     Cities: Skylines 2
•     Potion Craft
•     Dave the Diver

Valve has also announced that they have officially stopped supporting Steam on Windows 7 and 8 (this was announced almost a year ago): “As of January 1, 2024, Steam will officially stop supporting the Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 operating systems. After that date, existing Steam Client installations on these operating systems will no longer receive updates of any kind including security updates. Steam Support will be unable to offer users technical support for issues related to the old operating systems, and Steam will be unable to guarantee continued functionality of Steam on the unsupported operating system versions,” wrote Valve, whose hardware survey shows that 99% of users are on Windows 10/11.

Right-click on the desktop shortcut, select Properties, and paste this into the Destination: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe” -noverifyfiles -nobootstrapupdate -skipinitialbootstrap -norepairfiles -overridepackageurl – so that the client won’t be updated in case you force it to start as well.

Source: WCCFTech, WCCFTech