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It's almost time for the Steam Winter Sale to come to an end. You have just two days remaining to save a lot of money on what can be described as a "metric buttload" of video games. This also means it's time to see who won in each category for the 2021 Steam Awards.
Remember that each category had titles that were selected by the Steam community in November 2021. You were able to vote on which of those games should win in each category during the current Steam Winter Sale. The winners were revealed today, which means that there are still a couple of days remaining in the sale to pick up any of the winners if you're into that sort of thing.
If you don't want to visit the Steam page to see the winners, I've included them all below. Winners are highlighted in bold.
Game of the Year 2021
VR Game of the Year
Labor of Love
Better with Friends
Outstanding Visual Style
Most Innovative Gameplay
Best Game You Suck At
Best Soundtrack
Outstanding Story-Rich Game
Sit Back and Relax
- Valheim
- New World
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Resident Evil Village
- Forza Horizon 5
VR Game of the Year
- Sniper Elite VR
- Cooking Simulator VR
- Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond
- I Expect You to Die 2
- Blair Witch VR Edition
Labor of Love
- DOTA 2
- Terraria
- RUST
- No Man's Sky
- Apex Legends
Better with Friends
- Valheim
- Back 4 Blood
- Halo Infinite
- It Takes Two
- Crab Game
Outstanding Visual Style
- Psychonauts 2
- Subnautica Below Zero
- Little Nightmares 2
- Bright Memory Infinite
- Forza Horizon 5
Most Innovative Gameplay
- Inscryption
- Twelve Minutes
- Moncage
- Deathloop
- Loop Hero
Best Game You Suck At
- World War Z: Aftermath
- Naraka: Bladepoint
- Nioh 2
- Age of Empires IV
- Battlefield 2042
Best Soundtrack
- Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
- NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...
- Persona 5 Strikers
- Guilty Gear -Strive-
- Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles
Outstanding Story-Rich Game
- Life is Strange True Colors
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Resident Evil Village
- Days Gone
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition
Sit Back and Relax
- Unpacking
- Potion Craft
- Farming Simulator 22
- Townscaper
- Dorfromantik
I don't see how Deathloop has innovative gameplay, I don't think anyone read the description for Outstanding Visual Style (explicitly says it's not aiming for realism), and It Takes Two can't be played singleplayer, so it's not Better with Friends, it REQUIRES friends. Did The Game Awards Voting Jury rig this?