Following a period of voting during the Steam Winter Sale last year, the results from The Steam Awards 2025 are now in, and we are here to share them with you. Along with the usual Game of the Year categories, there are some awards that are slightly different from the usual. Read on to find out who were all the winners from The Steam Awards 2025.
The Steam Awards 2025:
VR Game of the Year: The Midnight Walk
“Follow The Midnight Walk in a dark adventure from the minds behind Lost in Random. Befriend a lost lantern creature and light your way through a world of wonder and terror. Outsmart monsters and marvel at details in a landscape handcrafted with real clay and animated in a stop motion style.“
Labor of Love Award: Baldur’s Gate III
“Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.“
Best Game on Steam Deck: Hades II
“Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.“
Better With Friends Award: Peak
“PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?“
Outstanding Visual Style Award: Silent Hill f
Per the XboxEra review “SILENT HILL f is all kinds of f’ed up. Set in 1960s Japan, you are Himiko, a high school student whose town is besieged by ancient, evil fog. Through nearly 15 hours and multiple playthroughs, you will fight, cry, scream, and smash your way through disgusting creatures as you try to save your family and friends. It never goes where you think; the story is dark as hell, and I loved it.”
Most Innovative Gameplay Award: ARC Raiders
“ARC Raiders walks a fine balance. It’s an extraction shooter seemingly purpose-built for the hardcore players, yet is surprisingly accessible, whether you’re playing with friends or going out there solo. It’s thematically dystopian, yet utterly beautiful to look at, full of bright splashes of colour and a cohesive overall design. It can be tense, thrilling, and downright terrifying, but it is also filled with surprisingly sweet and endearing moments with the sort of random, social interaction I’ve not enjoyed since the early days of Sea of Thieves. This is ARC Raiders, and it’s just the beginning.” Read the full XboxEra review here.
Best Game You Suck At: Hollow Knight: Silksong
“Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.” Read the XboxEra review here.
Best Soundtrack: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
“Lorien Testard’s soundtrack bounces between classical piano melodies, high-paced string pieces, and ripping guitar solos. They elevate every moment, popping off from the start and never relenting through the end. Boss fights get unique tracks full of new instruments and melodies that all cohesively feel like one product. It’s on a Final Fantasy level for me, which is the highest praise I can offer to any game.” The full XboxEra review can be found here.
Outstanding Story-Rich Game: Dispatch
“Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero.“
Sit Back and Relax: RV There Yet?
“A co-op adventure about driving your Recreational Vehicle home.“
Game of the Year: Hollow Knight: Silksong
“Team Cherry crafted an experience that didn’t have the lows of Hollow Knight while fully retaining those very high highs. That moment where you yell in triumph as a boss you’ve been facing for three hours finally goes down is honestly largely why I still love gaming so, so damn much. And Silksong gave me that feeling again and again and again.” Read the full XboxEra review here.
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