Steam players have spoken, and it’s time to check out the most voted games of 2025 that have been crowned as winners of the 2025 Steam Awards.
- Game of the Year Award – Hollow Knight: Silksong. In the sequel to Hollow Knight, discover a vast, haunted kingdom. Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
- VR Game of the Year Award – The Midnight Walk. 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 3. Coming from Larian Studios, 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 Award – 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. 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?
- Most Innovative Gameplay Award – ARC Raiders. ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.
- Best Game You Suck At Award – Hollow Knight: Silksong. This is the game that rewards persistence, and is not for the faint of heart.
- Best Soundtrack Award – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again.
- Outstanding Story-Rich Game Award: Dispatch. Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter.
- Sit Back and Relax Award – RV There Yet? A co-op adventure about driving your Recreational Vehicle home.
