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Baldur's Gate 3 has won Steam's 2023 GOTY Award (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 11 months ago by 9715698@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Game of the Year Award - Baldur's Gate 3

VR Game of the Year Award - Labyrinthine

Labor of Love Award - Red Dead Redemption 2

Best Game on Steam Deck Award - Hogwarts Legacy

Better With Friends Award - Lethal Company

Outstanding Visual Style Award - Atomic Heart

Most Innovative Gameplay Award - Starfield

Best Game You Suck At Award - SIFU

Best Soundtrack Award - The Last of Us Part I

Outstanding Story-Rich Game Award - Baldur's Gate 3

Sit Back and Relax Award - Dave the Diver

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[-] SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world 82 points 11 months ago

Starfield for most innovative gameplsy? Am I missing something or do people on Steam ride that Bethesda cock hard?

[-] Aielman15@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago

At the time I'm writing this, recent reviews reached mostly negative (29%), and all-time reviews are mixed (64%). Which is honestly a lot more than it deserves, but I would hardly call that "riding Bethesda's cock".

It's probably just a matter of big games getting more votes, because of name recognition. This is just a popularity contest, after all.

[-] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

Honestly wouldn't be surprised if most people chose it as a joke.

[-] cottonmon@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

Best guess is people voted it because they didn't know any of the other games and didn't bother to check.

[-] Marvin42@feddit.nl 11 points 11 months ago

The steam awards were never anything but a contest about which game is the most known. I really dislike them due to that, but at least one title (BG3 deserved it this year)