Voting for the 2024 Steam Awards and winter sales begins

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By Rita Ora

As tradition dictates, Steam closes the year giving a voice to PC players, who from today until December 31 at 7:00 p.m. CET can vote in the Steam Awards 2024. The start of the vote coincides with the launch of the winter sales, those that are never generous enough. Behind the list of award nominees you will find a selection of games that can be purchased at a discount from today.

The 2024 Steam Awards recognize the best PC games available in the Valve store, which leaves it up to the players to choose both the nominees, which has been done in recent weeks, and the winners. Voting is rewarded with special stickers. As veterans will already know, these awards have traditional categories such as Game of the Year, and more peculiar ones such as Best Difficult Game. We also have awards for gameplay, good plot, visual style or best game on Steam Deck. By nominations, the favorites are Balatro, Space Marine II and Helldivers II.

The nominees for the 2024 Steam Awards are:

game of the year

  • Helldivers 2
  • Balatro
  • Black Myth: Wukong
  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
  • Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl

VR game of the year

  • Maestro
  • Davigo
  • Blade and Sorcery
  • Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted 2
  • Metro Awakening

With love and dedication

  • No Man’s Sky
  • Baldur’s Gate 3
  • Dota 2
  • Stardew Valley
  • Elden Ring

Best Steam Deck Game

  • Hades 2
  • Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
  • God of War Ragnarok
  • Balatro
  • Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor

Better with friends

  • Helldivers 2
  • Satisfactory
  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
  • Sons of the Forest
  • Palworld

Exceptional visual style

  • Hades 2
  • Nine Sols
  • Silent Hill 2
  • Metaphor: Reimagining
  • Neva

Most innovative gameplay

  • Helldivers 2
  • Balatro
  • Satisfactory
  • Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
  • Liar’s Bar

Best difficult game

  • Tekken 8
  • Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut
  • Black Myth: Wukong
  • Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
  • The Finals

Best soundtrack

  • Red Dead Redemption
  • Fate/stay night Remastered
  • Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition
  • Silent Hill 2
  • Frostpunk 2

Exceptional game with good plot

  • Ghost of Tsushima Director’,s Cut
  • Black Myth: Wukong
  • Final Fantasy 14
  • Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
  • Mouthwashing

Sit back and relax award

  • Webfishing
  • Farming Simulator 25
  • House Flipper 2
  • TCG Card Shop Simulator
  • Tiny Glade

Some of the games that can be purchased at a discount during the Steam winter sales are:

  • It Takes Two – 7,99 euros
  • A Way Out – 2,99 euros
  • The Outlast Trials – 19,49 euros
  • Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition – 2,99 euros
  • Cyberpunk 2077 – 26,99 euros
  • Stardew Valley – 8,39 euros
  • Hogwarts Legacy – 14,99 euros
  • Metaphor: ReFantazio – 52.49 euros
  • Frostpunk II – 35,99 euros
  • Baldur’s Gate III – 47,99 euros
  • Diablo IV – 29.99 euros
  • Sons of the Forest – 14,49 euros
  • Helldivers 2 – 31,99 euros
  • EA Sports WRC 24 – 12,49 euros
  • Dragon Age: The Veilguard – 38,99 euros
  • Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut – 47,99 euros
  • Mass Effect Legendary Edition – 4,79 euros
  • Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun – 13,19 euros
  • Against the Storm – 14,99 euros
  • Fire Ring – 35.99 euros
  • Assassin’s Creed Origins – 5,99 euros
  • Deep Rock Galactic – 9,89 euros
  • Remnant II – 24,99 euros
  • Axe: Shadows Die Twice – 29.99 euros
  • Life is Strange: Double Exposure – 34,99 euros
  • Final Fantasy XVI – 37,49 euros
  • Hollow Knight – 7,39 euros
  • NBA 2K25 – 27,99 euros