The 2025 Steam Awards Winners Revealed

The votes have been cast, and the community has chosen the winners of the 2025 Steam Awards. As usual, the Steam Awards are entirely voted on by eligible Steam users, including the finalists for each category, which were announced on December 18. For the most part, there aren’t many surprises in this year’s results, although RV There Yet? winning the Sit Back and Relax Award is pretty funny. If you’ve played it, you probably understand, because there’s always that one person in your group who’s sitting back and relaxing instead of helping.

Steam users also voted for a different Game of the Year than The Game Awards 2025. Considering the discourse surrounding Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 after it took home nine awards at the annual show, it’s not really a surprise that a public vote steered away from it.

Game of the Year Award

• Winner: Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Dispatch
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
• ARC Raiders

VR Game of the Year Award

• Winner: The Midnight Walk
• F1 25
• Pavlov
• Le Mans Ultimate
• Emissary Zero

Labor of Love Award

• Winner: Baldur’s Gate 3
• Dota 2
• No Man’s Sky
• Rust
• Helldivers 2

Best Game on Steam Deck Award

• Winner: Hades II
• Digimon Story Time Stranger
• Ball x Pit
• CloverPit
• Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor

Better With Friends Award

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

Outstanding Visual Style Award

• Winner: Silent Hill f
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
• ENA: Dream BBQ
• My Little Puppy
• DOOM: The Dark Ages

Most Innovative Gameplay Award

• Winner: ARC Raiders
• Escape From Duckov
• Europa Universalis V
• Mage Arena
• Blue Prince

Best Game You Suck at Award

• Winner: Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Where Winds Meet
• Marvel Rivals
• Elden Ring Nightreign
• Path of Exile 2

Best Soundtrack Award

• Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Tokyo Xtreme Racer
• Rift of the NecroDancer
• Deltarune
• Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

Outstanding Story-Rich Game Award

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

Sit Back and Relax Award

• Winner: RV There Yet?
• PowerWash Simulator 2
• Chill with You : Lo-Fi Story
• Megabonk
• Slime Rancher 2