The votes are in, and it looks like Resident Evil Village is Steam’s overall game of the year for 2021.
The Steam Awards are Valve’s community-driven shindig that celebrates games that made it on Steam each year. Sort of like The Game Awards, but they hope you buy stuff by the end of it. In 2021, it looks like everyone was particularly fond of tall vampire ladies and werewolves, which is to say Resident Evil Village got more community votes than anything else on Steam.
Last fall, Capcom’s president Takashi Mochizuki said the company hopes to make PC its primary platform going forward. Any doubt that the Japanese publisher would have difficulty finding an audience outside of consoles sure seem like a distant memory by now.
We're pleased to announce your 2021 Steam Awards Winners!
Congratulations to Resident Evil Village, Terraria, Deathloop, It Takes Two, and more – check out the full list of winners here: https://t.co/eSgcvK9MWu
— Steam (@Steam) January 3, 2022
Other winners at the Steam Awards include:
- VR Game of the Year – Cooking Simulator VR
- Labor of Love – Terraria
- Better with Friends – It Takes Two
- Outstanding Visual Style – Forza Horizon 5
- Most Innovative Gameplay – Deathloop
- Best Game You Suck At – Nioh 2
- Best Soundtrack – Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
- Outstanding Story-rich game – Cyberpunk 2077
- Sit Back and Relax – Farming Simulator 2022
Some somewhat unconventional categories there.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
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