Valve announced the final nominees for The Steam Awards 2018, and the dates for voting and the annual Steam Winter Sale.
Steam users were able to vote on any game offered in the store’s catalog within any of the eight categories for the third annual Steam Awards last month. Some games that were released before 2018 had made the list including Grand Theft Auto V, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Euro Truck Simulator 2.
Valve also opened the nominee list for ‘Best Developer’ to 10 nominees due to it being “a highly-contested category with a lot of close calls” and excluded itself from the running. Check out the full list of categories and nominees below.
Voting will begin on Thursday, Dec. 20, which is also the first day of the 12th annual Steam Winter Sale. Steam users have until Jan. 3 to cast votes, while the results will be announced in February 2019.
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
