Gather around the fire, possessed, the votes for the annual Steam Awards are in and you’ve decided Rockstar’s cowboy adventure Red Dead Redemption 2 was game of the year in 2020. Check out to find out if you voted anything at the awards ceremony lasso himself a win.
RDR2 took the top spot for game of the year, which I personally can’t argue with. I may even have voted for it, but I’ve been sleeping ever since. I definitely played much of the online portion of the game in 2020. Despite a rocky multi-window launch when it arrived on PC in late 2019, it looks like everyone else got on it too.
It also took the win for “excellent story-rich game”, which I can’t speak to as I’m completely absorbed in RDO and never touched the single player’s piece. A crime, I know. Here’s Matthew Castle in this video review to tell you about that part instead.
Unsurprisingly, Half-Life: Alyx received the votes for “VR Game of the Year”. I haven’t played it myself, but it sure seems like it would have been a prank to Valve’s own game not to take that home, right? Graham called it “the Half-Life game you’ve been waiting for” in his Half-Life: Alyx review, so it sure seems well-deserved.
As for the other awards, Fall Guys is “better with friends,” while The Sims 4 takes home “sit back and relax” – a lot of EA games didn’t hit Steam until last year, remember. Ori And The Will Of The Wisps won the highest score for visual style and Doom Eternal took home the soundtrack award. You can see the winners in the other categories on Steam.
Besides, the Steam Winter Sale is also about to end. You have 10am PST / 6pm GMT tomorrow, January 5th, to sneak in your last sale purchases. If you need a little help deciding what to buy, here’s what to buy in the Steam sale.