Valve has announced the final list of nominees for the 2018 Steam Awards, and has also confirmed that the Steam Winter Sale will begin on December 20.
Game of the Year:
- Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds
- Monster Hunter: World
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- Hitman 2
- Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
VR Game of the Year:
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
- VRChat
- Beat Saber
- Fallout 4 VR
- Superhot VR
Labor of Love:
- Dota 2
- Grand Theft Auto V
- No Man’s Sky
- Path of Exile
- Stardew Valley
Best Environment:
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Subnautica
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- Far Cry 5
- Dark Souls 3
Better with Friends:
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
- Payday 2
- Dead by Daylight
- Overcooked! 2
Best Alternate History:
- Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
- Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
- Hearts of Iron 4
- Sid Meier’s Civilization 6
- Fallout 4
Most Fun with a Machine:
- Euro Truck Simulator 2
- Rocket League
- NieR: Automata
- Factorio
- Space Engineers
Best Developer:
- CD Projekt Red
- Ubisoft
- Bethesda
- Rockstar Games
- Digital Extremes Ltd.
- Square Enix
- Capcom
- Paradox Interactive
- Bandai Namco Entertainment
- Klei
You will notice that the “Best Developer” category has ten nominees—twice as many as all the others. Valve explained, this is due to being a “highly-contested category” during the nominations, and so it expanded the category to give all proper opportunity to win.
Valve said that voting for the 2018 Steam Awards will begin on December 20,”along with the launch of the 12th Annual Winter Sale. The winners are expected to be announced in February.
