In preparation for community voting, which is scheduled to begin this Thursday, December 20th, the finalists for The 2018 Steam Awards are now available. Starting along with the launch of the 12th Annual Winter Sale, Steam users will be able to cast their ballots in eight separate award categories and pick up this year’s set of digital trading cards. The full list of categories and finalists is below. Voting closes January 3rd, and the winners are expected to be announced in early February 2019.
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Nominees for Game of the Year:
- PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS
- MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- HITMANT 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 SOULST 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:
- Wolfenstein 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 Valve (ourselves) from this category.
