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Steam Awards 2018 winners revealed

Eolz

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http://store.steampowered.com/SteamAwards/

Choices Matter:
The Witcher 3

Mom's Spaghetti:
PUBG

Labor of Love:
Warframe

Suspension of disbelief:
Rocket League:

The world is grim enough let's just all get along:
Stardew Valley

No Apologies:
The Witcher 1

Defies Description:
Garry's Mod

Cry Havoc and let slip the dogs of war:
Just Cause 3

Haunts my dreams:
CSGO

Soul of Vitrivius:
Rise of Tomb Raider

Whoa Dude 2.0:
The Evil Within 2

Best Soundtrack:
Cuphead

Even better than expected:
Cuphead

Nier was robbed for the Vitrivius award
 
Arkeband

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As much as I don't care about honoring 2B's butt, I do wonder who would throw a vote of anything at one of these lame new Tomb Raider reboot games.
 
Platy

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Sonic Mania was ROBBED of "Even better than expected" !!!

Cuphead was awesome and nobody expected to be that good ... but it didn't had the baggage of a SONIC GAME
 
Lumination

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I thought Mom's Spaghetti was referring to buggiest game until I read the description.

But seriously how did Bayonetta and Nier lose to Tomb Raider 2?
 
708

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IMO Original Sin 2 deserved Choices Matter award way more than Witcher 3.
 

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Lashley said:
same, and I'm a PC gamer
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If you click the link there is a paragraph explaining what every award is for

The one Tomb Raider won was for "..the game with the most lovingly rendered character… be it human, alien, anthropomorphic cat people, or even a piece of produce."
 
Conkerkid11

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The recency bias on Cuphead is strong. Can't believe Undertale didn't win best soundtrack, and don't understand how it won "Even better than I expected". That's like a bad award to win. That means a majority of the people who ended up liking it went in with low expectations, or don't understand what the award means, because I'm pretty sure I saw nothing but hype for the game every time a new trailer or gameplay footage came out. Pretty sure Assassin's Creed Origins should have won that, but PC gamers are blinded by optimization.

RabbidPeach said:
Can't argue with those choices.

In fact they were far better than most mainstream media GOTY choices.
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Most of the games on that list didn't come out this year. These aren't GOTY awards.
 
Lithium Flower

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These awards were lame, and I'm disappointed Nier and Hollow Knight didn't win a lame (Steam) award. Nier should've handily won best soundtrack.
 
Derrick01

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Spoiler: The most popular game in each category won just about. The only exception I can really see is cuphead beating cod and AC on the last one.
 
Hella

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Just Cause 3 is the only one that really makes me scratch my head. I've always thought of these awards like popularity contests, otherwise.

And Valve really needs better awards names. They're gibberish without the descriptions translating them into something barely-coherent.
 
Ultimadrago

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Witcher 3 for Choices Matter, Witcher 1 for No Apologies, Stardew Valley for World is Grim enough, Cuphead for Soundtrack (Though Nier is a strong contender for debate) and Even Better than Expected?

These results turned out pretty good.
 
Conkerkid11

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Derrick01 said:
Spoiler: The most popular game in each category won just about. The only exception I can really see is cuphead beating cod and AC on the last one.
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Cuphead's a bigger PC game than CoD and Assassin's Creed.

Cuphead Sales: 1,280,991 - 1,350,333
CoD Sales: 803,638 - 858,780
Assassin's Creed Sales: 543,118 - 588,628
 
Alexandros

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I'm very happy that the first Witcher game won an award. It is different from its sequels but it too is an excellent game.
 
Danzflor

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I still don't get why this still allows every game on the platform, should be only the ones released this year. Nier and DDLC got robbed there.
 
Danim

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Glad to see TEW2 winning an award somewhere at least!

As others have said, Nier was robbed in the soundtrack category ( and I didn't even like the game that much).

No apologies winner is so random.
 
Sev

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Lithium Flower said:
These awards were lame, and I'm disappointed Nier and Hollow Knight didn't win a lame (Steam) award. Nier should've handily won best soundtrack.
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Agreed 100%. Hollow Knight was my GOTY, and the lack of attention it got in all kinds of awards makes me sad.

TW3 winning yet again was a little disappointing too.
 
ArjanN

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Oct 25, 2017
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Those are all pretty solid picks. These awards would make more sense if it was just games released in the current year, and with public voting it's always going to a be a popularity contest, but still I can't really argue too much with these winners.
 
Wolf

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How the hell did Nier lose to Cuphead for best soundtrack?

That is....mind blowing.
 
Budi

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Seeing Witcher 1 win made me happier than seeing Witcher 3 win, even though W3 is my all time favorite game. I personally voted for Divinity OS 2 in that category, even though I haven't played it I already know that it offers much more in the choice and consequence department. Overall decent voting result.
 
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