Baldur's Gate 3 completes its Game of the Year sweep with top honor in the 2023 Steam Awards
To the surprise of absolutely no one, Baldur's Gate 3 has claimed the Game of the Year award in the 2023 Steam Awards, along with the crown for Outstanding Story-Rich Game. It probably would have won even more, but the Steam Awards rules limit games to nominations in a maximum of two categories, presumably to avoid any across-the-board ass-kickings.
The Steam Awards win comes on top of Game of the Year titles at The Game Awards and the Golden Joysticks, giving Baldur's Gate 3 a proper Game of the Year trifecta—a GOAT of GOTYs, you might say. I never imagined when a new Baldur's Gate was announced back in 2019 that the oddball little RPG studio from Ghent would end up so thoroughly dominating the videogame scene on PC and console alike, but here we are: If there was a trophy in sight anywhere in 2023, Larian Studios carried it home.
«After more than 40 million votes, we're delighted that Baldur's Gate 3 has won Game of the Year AND Outstanding Story-Rich Game in this year's Steam Awards,» Larian tweeted. «Thank you all for supporting Baldur's Gate 3.»
The Steam Awards are a different sort of beast than many other videogame awards, in that nominations and winners are selected entirely through fan voting during Steam's Autumn and Winter Sales. That can lead to some unexpected and, frankly, confusing results: Red Dead Redemption 2, for instance, hasn't been updated for years but nonetheless earned the Labor of Love award for ongoing new content releases, while Starfield, which has been widely criticized for its failure to meaningfully innovate on the Bethesda RPG formula, won the Most Innovative Gameplay award.
In the case of Baldur's Gate 3, though, there's really no surprise at all, nor was there any real risk that another
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