- Valve revealed the winners of the 2025 Steam Awards
- Hollow Knight: Song of Silk was the only game to win more than one category
- Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33 won the award for best soundtrack – it’s just an award
Valve has announced the winners of the 2025 Steam Awards and, unlike the 2025 Game Awards, Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33 didn’t sweep almost every category.
Held annually since 2016, the Steam Awards are voted on almost entirely by users of the popular PC gaming platform Steam. Every year, Valve offers a selection of categories and gives you a few weeks to come up with choices.
You can then vote on a selection of the most popular choices, with winners determined by counting the votes to see which game received the most.
This year, the categories and winners are as follows:
- Game of the year: Hollow Knight: Song of Silk
- VR Game of the Year: The midnight walk
- Labor of Love (celebrating older games that are still being updated): Baldurs Gate 3
- Best game on Steam Deck: Hades 2
- Better With Friends (for the best cooperative experiences): Culminate
- Exceptional visual style: Silent Hill
- Most innovative gameplay: Arc Raiders
- Best game you’re bad at: Hollow Knight: Song of Silk
- Best Original Soundtrack Award: Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33
- Outstanding story-rich game: Shipping
- Sit back and relax (a prize for relaxing experiences): RV there already?
A complete selection?
No Game of the Year list is going to be perfect (except for TechRadar Gaming’s Game of the Year picks, of course!), but this seems like a pretty decent selection overall.
I am personally quite surprised Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33 didn’t win in more than one category, given its enormous popularity, but after winning so many accolades at The Game Awards, maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
The inclusion of some smaller games like The midnight walk And RV there already? is also great to see and should hopefully generate sales for their hard-working developers.
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