Steam Users Identify Best Games of 2020 – Red Dead Redemption 2 Winning Grand Prize
As promised, on the evening of January 3, 2021, Valve summed up the results of the Steam Awards traditionally held as part of the Winter Sale. The laureates were announced in a special video on the ceremony page.
The games selected by users during the fall sale were nominated for awards at the end of the past 2020. Prizes for the 2020 Steam Awards were handed out in ten categories – five projects each.
As the nominees, the 2020 Steam Prize winners have been identified through popular vote. It started on December 22nd (including the winter sale) and ended on January 3rd.
The full list of Steam Awards 2020 nominees and awardees is below:
Game of the Year
- Red Dead Redemption 2 – winner ;
- Hades ;
- DOOM Eternal ;
- Guys Fall Ultimate Knockout ;
- Death Stranding.
Virtual Reality Game of the Year
- Half-Life: Alyx – Winner ;
- Phasmophobia;
- The Room VR: A Dark Matter;
- Thief Simulator VR;
- Star Wars: Squadrons.
Beloved child
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – winner ;
- Among Us;
- Terraria;
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt ;
- No Man’s Sky.
A friend is known in the game
- Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout – winner ;
- Sea of Thieves ;
- Borderlands 3 ;
- Deep Rock Galactic ;
- Risk of Rain 2.
Most innovative gameplay
- Death Stranding – the winner ;
- Control ;
- Superliminal;
- No;
- Teardown.
Best Game with an Outstanding Story
- Red Dead Redemption 2 – winner ;
- Detroit: Become Human ;
- Mafia: Definitive Edition ;
- Metro Exodus ;
- Horizon Zero Dawn.
The best game you don’t get
- Apex Legends – Winner ;
- Crusader Kings III;
- Ghostrunner ;
- FIFA 21;
- GTFO.
Outstanding visual style
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps – winner ;
- Battlefield V ;
- There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015;
- Marvel’s Avengers ;
- Black Mesa.
Best Soundtrack
- DOOM Eternal is the winner ;
- Of Halo: to Master Master Chief of The Collection ;
- Helltaker;
- Need for Speed Heat ;
- Persona 4 Golden.
Sit back
- The Sims 4 is the winner ;
- Microsoft Flight Simulator ;
- Satisfactory;
- Untitled Goose Game;
- Factorio.
The Steam Reward 2020 has come to an end (2021 will not be left without a ceremony either), but the Winter Sale is still ongoing. The promotion will end on January 5 at 21:00 Moscow time.
