We are almost still in the hangover of the Game Awards, where the best games of the year were chosen in the different categories, including the famous GOTY (Game of the Year) won by Baldur’s Gate 3. But the choice of these winners is based primarily on the professional opinion of the critics, and we now have the result of the Steam Price 2023 where users vote for what they think is the best best games of the year in different categories. Do you want to know who this year’s winners were? In the following, we tell you.
Although it is not the only one, Steam remains the most important PC gaming platform with the most users in the world, so both its hardware statistics and the votes for the best games of the year, as it is the case for these Steam Awards have a fairly important weight to know the general opinion of PC users around the world.
The winners of the Steam Awards 2023
Differentiated into 11 different categories, Steam users have had a few weeks to vote for the best games of the year for one merit or another, and unlike what they do at the Game Awards, we’re going to start with the one that users selected as game of the year.
Surely no one will be surprised that, just like at the Game Awards, Baldur’s Gate 3 was voted by Steam users as the best game of the year. The Larian title continues to receive praise from players and critics alike, and it’s not that it’s the best RPG, it’s that it’s a game of such magnitude that even playing it three times still keeps you surprise (and that’s what I think). literally speaking from experience). The gameplay, the mechanics, the story, the soundtrack, the characters… it’s a game that has it all, and that’s what users demonstrated by giving it their vote at the Steam Awards of This year.
Moreover, the finalists in this category were Resident Evil 4 Remake, Lethal Company, FC24 and Hogwarts Legacy. Honestly, there was no competition.
Let’s continue with the rest of the categories; In this case we are going to summarize them by points and we are going to mark the winners in bold in each of them.
VR Game of the Year:
- The ghosts of Tabor
- F1 23
- Gorilla label
- I Expect You to Die 3: Cog in the Machine
- Labyrinthine
With love and dedication:
- Rust
- Galactic Deep Rock
- Dota 2
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Apex Legends
Best game on Steam Deck:
- Diablo 4
- Flirting
- Brotato
- Hogwarts Legacy
- The Outlast events
Better with friends:
- Son of the Forest
- Deadly Company
- Sunken Earth
- Warhammer 40,000: oil spill
- Party people
Exceptional visual style:
- Cocoon
- Darkest Dungeon 2
- Towards the inside
- Atomic heart
- High in life
Most innovative gameplay:
- Your only movement is agitation
- Star Field
- Shadows of doubt
- Contraband Police
- Rest 2
Best difficult game:
- Lords of the Fallen
- CF24
- Sifu
- Street Fighter 6
- Monitoring 2
Best soundtrack:
- Rush to Hi-Fi
- The Last of Us Part 1
- Songs of Sennaar
- pizza tower
- Persona 5 Tactics
Outstanding game with a good plot:
- Love is everywhere
- Resident Evil 4
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Lies of P
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Sit back and relax:
- City Skylines 2
- Coral Island
- Dave the Diver
- Train Sim World 4
- Potion crafting
One thing to take into account is that obviously the games nominated in all these categories were only titles not only on PC, but also available on Steam, so there are a lot of great games that were excluded of the vote (really Just look at some of the nominees, some of them completely insignificant and it was clear they weren’t going to win anything).
What do you think of the results? Do they agree with your votes?
