Not really a big surprise here and thoroughly deserved! The 2023 Steam Awards are over and Baldur's Gate 3 has won Game of the Year. Here's all the results for you.
Game of the Year: Baldur's Gate 3
VR Game of the Year: Labyrinthine
Labor of Love: Red Dead Redemption 2
Best Game on Steam Deck: Hogwarts Legacy
Better With Friends: Lethal Company
Outstanding Visual Style: Atomic Heart
Most Innovative Gameplay: Starfield
Best Game You Suck At: Sifu
Best Soundtrack: The Last of Us Part I
Outstanding Story-Rich Game: Baldur's Gate 3
Sit Back and Relax: DAVE THE DIVER
What are you thoughts on the winners this year?
See more on the Steam Awards page.
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Optimistically, Heretic's Fork was in the running for Most Innovative, but that was always a long shot.
Baldur's Gate winning best game - no surprises there, that's a deserved one.
I was hoping WarThunder had a chance for Labor of Love, but no luck.
Never heard of Lethal Company - it seems to be in Early Access.
Hogwarts Legacy winning the Linux category is also surprising - I refunded it as it would not run on my Nvidia GPU, but probably the AMD GPU performance was better.
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At least the latter had zero chance of winning against BG3, but still...
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Quoting: blindcoderAbsolutely, Starfield has pretty much zero innovation. It's a decent game, but innovation is not part of it, at all.This nomination has to be a troll, honestly. It's just too perfect.
Same goes for RDR2. People have been complaining Rockstar abandoned the game for years.
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For me Beamdog is still the master of Baldur's Gate (Even i own both but never played and i know i have to play them)
Larian has stolen the spotlights and i'm pissed...
I have voted for Hogwarts Legacy as GoTY but noooooo random NPCS who think using dices non stop and reloading over 100 times the save to avoid failure is funny.. Those guys should play Solasta it has no romance but it's like you play D&D with friends in the garage.
Labor of Love i have voted DRG... i don't know why AAA games keep hacking the awards
Best game on steam deck (i don't own) but brotato was my vote, could have been dredge
Better with friends well Lethal Company is small indie early access where's it's more fun with friends and it is well deserve it doesn't use a big licence like warhammer
Atomic Heart won an award that's good i was tired of people giving hate
Starfield won = Todd Howard aren't fired... Remnant 2 should have won
The Trash of US remake after remake... i have voted for Hi-Fi Rush but noooo AAA games from brain dead
Outstanding story-rich sorry but Love is all around could have won it
Like Game awards everything is biased. No spotlights for indie devs who work hard to serve us good gems
QuoteWhat are you thoughts on the winners this year?Mostly a pretty sorry bunch, I'm sad to say - there were only a few well-deserved wins, and it was largely like an echo of Geoff Keighley's The Godawful Awards.
Except, unlike those, they're not telling the guys behind Baldur's Gate 3 to please wrap it up whilst they pay tribute to a deceased colleague (it was an automated prompt to hurry all gaming-related content along to make as much room as possible for advertisements, but it still wasn't a good look).
Quoting: blindcoderAbsolutely, Starfield has pretty much zero innovation. It's a decent game, but innovation is not part of it, at all.
This is probably why Starfield won. https://www.gamesradar.com/starfields-new-game-plus-narrative-is-bethesda-rpg-innovation-at-its-finest/
Quoting: BrokattQuoting: blindcoderAbsolutely, Starfield has pretty much zero innovation. It's a decent game, but innovation is not part of it, at all.
This is probably why Starfield won. https://www.gamesradar.com/starfields-new-game-plus-narrative-is-bethesda-rpg-innovation-at-its-finest/
Ah yes, the innovative power of "New Game+"! Such trendsetters, such visionaries.
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