Today, Valve announced the results of the annual Steam Awards 2025, and Hollow Knight Silksong came up on top, winning Game of the Year.
The popular indie game by Team Cherry defeated a solid list of finalists, including Arc Raiders, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Dispatch, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Here’s the rest of the winners according to the official post on Steam.
- VR Game of the Year Award: The Midnight Walk
- Labor of Love Award: Baldur’s Gate 3
- Best Game on Steam Deck Award: Hades 2
- Better With Friends Award: Peak
- Outstanding Visual Style Award: Silent Hill f
- Most Innovative Gameplay Award: Arc Raiders
- Best Game You Suck At Award: Hollow Knight Silksong
- Best Soundtrack Award: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Outstanding Story-Rich Game Award: Dispatch
- Sit Back and Relax Award: RV There Yet?
It’s worth mentioning that the Steam Awards are community-voted, as opposed to other awards like The Game Awards, which are almost entirely decided by panels of media and influencers. The fact that the results feel a lot more sane likely has something to do with that.
That being said, we still believe that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 or Euro Truck Simulator 2/Americann Truck Simulator would have been better deserving of the Labor of Love Award (no disrespect meant to Baldur’s Gate 3, but the updates in 2025 simply don’t compare). Yet, it is what it is.
Incidentally, all the winners are now on sale, with discounts ranging between 45% and 10%, so if you haven’t played them, you have a decent chance to change that.