Game of the Year Award - Baldur’s Gate 3

VR Game of the Year Award - Labyrinthine

Labor of Love Award - Red Dead Redemption 2

Best Game on Steam Deck Award - Hogwarts Legacy

Better With Friends Award - Lethal Company

Outstanding Visual Style Award - Atomic Heart

Most Innovative Gameplay Award - Starfield

Best Game You Suck At Award - SIFU

Best Soundtrack Award - The Last of Us Part I

Outstanding Story-Rich Game Award - Baldur’s Gate 3

Sit Back and Relax Award - Dave the Diver

  • BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip
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    Such nonsensical results. It really is a popularity contest.

    At this point, I think it’s clear that voting restrictions of some sort are necessary. My first thought: players can only vote in a category if they’ve got at least 5 hours of total gameplay distributed amongst at least 25% of the games in that category, with a minimum of 30 minutes of gameplay per game.

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      11 months ago

      I was forced to vote in some categories because they promised me a chat emoji.

      I did, however, not vote by popularity, but I imagine many did.

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        11 months ago

        I literally only voted on one thing by accident because the button made it look like I was going to go to another page to choose my vote in that category. Turns out I was just voting for the game I was looking at immediately and irrevocably.

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      11 months ago

      Don’t be so upset, these awards are decided by the gamers. Every Steam user can take part in the selection and voting.