Gather around the fire, possessions, the voices for the annual Steam Awards are inside and you have decided that Rockstar’s cowboy adventure Red Dead Redemption 2 was the game of the year in 2020. Come check it out to find out if anything you voted for during the awards to unleash the win.
RDR2 took first place for the match of the year, with which I can not personally argue. I may have even voted for it, but I have been sleeping ever since. I definitely played a lot of the online portion of the game in 2020. Despite a rocky launch on several store windows when it arrived on a computer at the end of 2019, it looks like everyone had to get on it too.
It also won the victory for an ‘outstanding story-rich game’, which I can not speak for, because I was completely absorbed by RDO and never touched the single player. A crime, I know. Here’s Matthew Castle in this video review to tell you more about the part.
It’s not surprising that Half-Life: Alyx got the votes for ‘VR Game of the Year’. I did not play it myself, but it seems like it would have been a nuisance for Valve’s own game not to take the one home, right? Graham calls it in his Half-Life: Alyx review ‘the Half-Life game you’ve been waiting for’, so it definitely looks well-deserved.
As for the other awards, Fall Guys is ‘better with friends’, while The Sims 4 ‘sit back and relax’ home. Many EA games only came on Steam last year, remember. Ori And The Will Of The Wisps scored the best marks for visual style and Doom Eternal topped the soundtrack award. You can see the winners in the remaining categories on Steam.
By now, the Steam Winter Sale is also nearing completion. You can sneak in until 5pm PST / 18:00 GMT tomorrow, January 5th time to make your last purchases. If you need a little help deciding what to upload, this is what you should buy in the Steam sale.