Steam Awards 2023 See Baldur’s Gate 3 Winning GOTY, Starfield Getting Most Innovative Gameplay Award
wccftech.comA few hours ago, Valve closed the Steam Awards 2023 polls to announce the winners in each of the ten categories. Unsurprisingly, Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 brought home another Game of the Year award after the previous wins at the Golden Joystick and The Game Awards, beating finalists Resident Evil 4, EA Sports FC 24, Lethal Company (the runaway early access smash hit of the last couple of months), and Hogwarts Legacy.
Avalanche Software's best-selling game of the year did win a prize here, though. Hogwarts Legacy was voted 'Best Game on Steam Deck', beating Diablo IV, Brotato, Dredge, and The Outlast Trials in this category.
Lethal Company also won an award. The indie cooperative horror game made by Zeekerss received the most votes in the Better With Friends category, surpassing Sons of the Forest, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, Party Animals, and Sunkenland.
Oh, by the way, Baldur's Gate 3 was the only game to win two categories at the Steam Awards 2023. Larian's excellent cRPG also brought home the prize for the Outstanding Story-Rich Game, beating fellow finalists Resident Evil 4, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Lies of P, and Love Is All Around.
Interestingly, Bethesda's sci-fi RPG Starfield came out on top in the Most Innovative Gameplay category, ahead of Remnant 2, Shadows of Doubt, Your Only Move Is HUSTLE, and Contraband Police. This is peculiar because the game's average user reviews on Steam are now mostly negative, in direct contradiction with this community vote. Clearly, a different group of players participated in the Steam Awards 2023 voting for this category.
Another controversial prize was the Labor of Love award, which was handed to Red Dead Redemption 2. Even the game's own fans questioned it, though, since Rockstar
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