Valve Announces Winners of the 2025 Steam Awards

Every year, Valve holds a community-voted Game Awards, where players are able to nominate their favourites and vote for the winning nominees. The Steam Awards are comprised of 11 awards: Sit Back and Relax, Outstanding Story-Rich Game, Best Soundtrack, Best Game You Suck At, Most Innovative Gameplay, Outstanding Visual Style, Better With Friends, Best Game on Steam Deck, Labor of Love, VR Game of the Year, and Game of the Year.

Here are the 11 winners!

Sit Back and Relax — RV There Yet?

• Developer: Nuggets Entertainment
• Publisher: Nuggets Entertainment
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Indie
• Tags: Multiplayer, Co-op, Funny
• Release Date: 21 Oct, 2025
• Steam Link

RV There Yet?  won against the following nominees:

• Chill With You : Lo-Fi Story
• Megabonk
• Slime Rancher 2
• PowerWash Simulator 2

Outstanding Story-Rich Game Award — Dispatch

• Developer: AdHoc Studio
• Publisher: AdHoc Studio
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Casual
• Tags: Choices Matter, Story Rich, Sexual Content
• Release Date: 22 Oct, 2025
• Steam Link

Dispatch won against the following nominees:

• Dying Light: The Beast
• The Last of Us Part II Remastered
• Dispatch
• No, I'm not a Human
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

Best Soundtrack Award — Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Developer: Sandfall Interactive
• Publisher: Kepler Interactive
• Genre: Action, RPG
• Tags: Turn-Based Combat, Story Rich, Fantasy
• Release Date: 24 Apr, 2025
• Steam Link

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won against the following nominees:

• Rift of the NecroDancer
• DELTARUNE
• Marvel's Spider-Man 2
• Tokyo Xtreme Racer

Best Game You Suck At — Hollow Knight: Silksong

• Developer: Team Cherry
• Publisher: Team Cherry
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Indie
• Tags: Metroidvania, Difficult, Indie
• Release Date: 4 Sep, 2025
• Steam Link

Hollow Knight: Silksong won against the following nominees:

• Where Winds Meet
• Marvel Rivals
• ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN
• Path of Exile 2

Most Innovative Gameplay — ARC Raiders

• Developer: Embark Studios
• Publisher: Embark Studios
• Genre: Action
• Tags: Extraction Shooter, Multiplayer, PvP
• Release Date: 30 Oct, 2025
• Steam Link

ARC Raiders won against the following nominees:

• Blue Prince
• Mage Arena
• Europa Universalis V
• Escape From Duckov

Outstanding Visual Style — SILENT HILL f

• Developer: NeoBards Entertainment Ltd.
• Publisher: KONAMI
• Genre: Action, Adventure
• Tags: Psychological Horror, Horror, Female Protagonist
• Release Date: 25 Sep, 2025
• Steam Link

SILENT HILL f won against the following nominees:

• FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH
• DOOM: The Dark Ages
• My Little Puppy
• ENA: Dream BBQ

Better With Friends — PEAK

• Developer: Team PEAK
• Publisher: Aggro Crab
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Indie
• Tags: Multiplayer, Online Co-Op, Co-op
• Release Date: 16 Jun, 2025
• Steam Link

PEAK won against the following nominees:

• R.E.P.O.
• Split Fiction
• Schedule I
• Battlefield 6

Best Game on Steam Deck — Hades II

• Developer: Supergiant Games
• Publisher: Supergiant Games
• Genre: Action, Indie, RPG
• Tags: Action, Roguelike, Roguelite
• Release Date: 25 Sep, 2025
• Steam Link

Hades II won against the following nominees:

• BALL x PIT
• CloverPit
• Digimon Story Time Stranger
• Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor

Labor of Love — Baldur's Gate 3

• Developer: Larian Studios
• Publisher: Larian Studios
• Genre: Adventure, RPG, Strategy
• Tags: RPG, Character Customization, Choices Matter
• Release Date: 3 Aug, 2023
• Steam Link

Baldur's Gate 3 won against the following nominees:

• No Man's Sky
• DOTA 2
• HELLDIVERS 2
• Rust

VR Game of the Year — The Midnight Walk

• Developer: MoonHood
• Publisher: Fast Travel Games
• Genre: Adventure, Indie
• Tags: Adventure, Horror, Atmospheric
• Release Date: 8 May, 2025
• Steam Link

The Midnight Walk won against the following nominees:

• Le Mans Ultimate
• Pavlov
• F1 25
• Emissary Zero

Game of the Year — Hollow Knight: Silksong

• Developer: Team Cherry
• Publisher: Team Cherry
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Indie
• Tags: Metroidvania, Difficult, Indie
• Release Date: 4 Sep, 2025
• Steam Link

Hollow Knight: Silksong won against the following nominees:

• ARC Raiders
• Dispatch
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33