Nominees for the Steam Awards 2018 Revealed & Winter Sale News

The list of nominees for the annual Steam Awards has been revealed. The community provided the input, and the Steam gremlins calculated the top games across several categories. There are a few surprises sprinkled within, so it's worth checking out!

Voting for the Steam Awards will start on Thursday, December 20th when the annual Steam Winter Sale begins. You'll be able to vote on the Steam Awards page found here.

What games are you surprised and / or disappointed to see on the list of nominees?

Voting closes January 3rd and winners will be announced early February 2019. Good luck to all of our nominees!

Nominees for Game of the Year

• PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
• MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance
• HITMAN™ 2
• Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Nominees for VR Game of the Year

• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
• VRChat
• Beat Saber
• Fallout 4 VR
• SUPERHOT VR

Nominees for Labor of Love

• Dota 2
• Grand Theft Auto V
• No Man's Sky
• Path of Exile
• Stardew Valley

Nominees for Best Environment

• The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt
• Subnautica
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider
• Far Cry 5
• DARK SOULS™ III

Nominees for Better with Friends

• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Siege
• PAYDAY 2
• Dead by Daylight
• Overcooked! 2

Nominees for Best Alternate History

• Wolfeinstein II: The New Colossus
• Assassin's Creed® Odyssey
• Hearts of Iron IV
• Sid Meier's Civilization® VI
• Fallout 4

Nominees for Most Fun with a Machine

• Euro Truck Simulator 2
• Rocket League
• NieR:Automata
• Factorio
• Space Engineers

Nominees for Best Developer

• CD PROJEKT RED
• Ubisoft
• Bethesda
• Rockstar Games
• Digital Extremes Ltd.
• Square Enix
• Capcom
• Paradox Interactive
• BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
• Klei

Notes on Best Developer category:

"Best Developer” proved to be a highly-contested category with a lot of close calls among the top nominees. As a result, we expanded the set of nominees to 10. In addition, we’ve excluded ourselves from this category. We appreciate the love you’ve shown us, but we want to honor the other awesome developers on Steam, so we have excluded Valve from the final tally.

There's not much else known about the Winter Sale except that it begins tomorrow. Are your wallets ready?