With the year coming to an end, Steam digital distribution platform is proud to announce the finalists for The Steam Awards 2018. Now it is up for the community to choose the winners by voting for their favorite titles and developers.
Voting will open on December 20th, at the start of the 12th annual Steam Winter Sale, and will run through January 3rd. There are 8 categories to vote in.
The winners will be announced early February 2019.
You can find the categories and the nominees below or head to the Steam blog:
Nominees for Game of the Year
- PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS
- MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- HITMAN™ 2
- Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Nominees for VR Game of the Year
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
- VRChat
- Beat Saber
- Fallout 4 VR
- SUPERHOT VR
Nominees for Labor of Love
- Dota 2
- Grand Theft Auto V
- No Man’s Sky
- Path of Exile
- Stardew Valley
Nominees for Best Environment
- The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt
- Subnautica
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- Far Cry 5
- DARK SOULS™ III
Nominees for Better with Friends
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Siege
- PAYDAY 2
- Dead by Daylight
- Overcooked! 2
Nominees for Best Alternate History
- Wolfeinstein II: The New Colossus
- Assassin’s Creed® Odyssey
- Hearts of Iron IV
- Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
- Fallout 4
Nominees for Most Fun with a Machine
- Euro Truck Simulator 2
- Rocket League
- NieR:Automata
- Factorio
- Space Engineers
Nominees for Best Developer
- CD PROJEKT RED
- Ubisoft
- Bethesda
- Rockstar Games
- Digital Extremes Ltd.
- Square Enix
- Capcom
- Paradox Interactive
- BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
- Klei
“Best Developer” proved to be a highly-contested category with a lot of close calls among the top nominees. As a result, we expanded the set of nominees to 10. In addition, we’ve excluded ourselves from this category. We appreciate the love you’ve shown us, but we want to honor the other awesome developers on Steam, so we have excluded Valve from the final tally.
