Nominations begin for the 2025 Steam Awards

By Liam Dawe - 25 Nov 2025 at 11:38 am UTC

One of the biggest events of the year for game developers is here, with the nominations now open for the 2025 Steam Awards. If you ever check your Steam News feed, you might already know - as developers and publishers have been practically spamming announcements out to get people to vote.

You have until December 1st to get nominating your favourites across these categories:

Game of the Year
VR Game of the Year
Labor of Love
Best Game on Steam Deck
Better with Friends
Outstanding Visual Style
Most Innovative Gameplay
Best Game You Suck At
Best Soundtrack
Outstanding Story-Rich Game
Sit Back & Relax

Valve will be giving out a profile badge if you nominate a game in at least one category, with the badge being levelled up by nominating in every category, playing them and putting up a user review.

You will be able to vote for the finalists starting December 18th.

Head over to Steam to start nominating your faves.

What will you be voting for?

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Event, Misc, Steam, Valve

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hardpenguin 3 hours ago

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What will you be voting for?

I actually had to make a couple shots in the dark because I have not played that many games from 2025 😅

2024 and 2023 though? Very good 😙👌

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Eike 2 hours ago

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What will you be voting for?

The Drifter

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1170570/The_Drifter/

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Tethys84 10 minutes ago

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I stopped voting in these a while back. I just don't see why it matters. Why does anyone care what the game of the year is? Whats the incentive? I'd rather spend my time playing the games than care about who gets what award.

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