Here are the nominees for The Steam Awards 2018

There's a mixed bag and a few surprises when it comes to the Game of the Year category, which is just one of many.
Text: Suzanne Berget
Published 2018-12-19

Valve has announced the nominees for this year's Steam Awards, and voting will be open from December 20 to January 3, with the winners being revealed in February.

The categories include, among other things, Game of the Year, Labor of Love, Better with Friends, Most Fun with a Machine (where strangely enough Nier: Automata is nominated), and Best Developer, which was such a contested category Valve had to expand it to 10 nominees, and then subsequently removed themselves from the final tally, because they want this to be about other developers.

You can see the full list of categories and nominees below:

Nominees for Game of the Year

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
HITMAN™ 2
Assassin's Creed Odyssey


Nominees for VR Game of the Year

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
VRChat
Beat Saber
Fallout 4 VR
SUPERHOT VR


Nominees for Labor of Love

Dota 2
Grand Theft Auto V
No Man's Sky
Path of Exile
Stardew Valley


Nominees for Best Environment

The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt
Subnautica
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Far Cry 5
DARK SOULS™ III


Nominees for Better with Friends

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Siege
PAYDAY 2
Dead by Daylight
Overcooked! 2


Nominees for Best Alternate History

Wolfeinstein II: The New Colossus
Assassin's Creed® Odyssey
Hearts of Iron IV
Sid Meier's Civilization® VI
Fallout 4


Nominees for Most Fun with a Machine

Euro Truck Simulator 2
Rocket League
NieR:Automata
Factorio
Space Engineers


Nominees for Best Developer
CD PROJEKT RED
Ubisoft
Bethesda
Rockstar Games
Digital Extremes Ltd.
Square Enix
Capcom
Paradox Interactive
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment

Who would you vote for in each category?

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