SUMMARY
- The Steam Awards are up and running with the voting coming to a close soon.
- Steam Awards are an yearly tradition on the Steam platform where games are nominated for each category until the votes cast out a winner.
The Steam Awards 2023 arrived later last year in 2023 with the Steam Winter sale. The awards gave players to opportunity to vote on some of their favorite games from the years gone by. Players could cast their votes across a variety of categories.
Being one of the most prestigious awards in the gaming fraternity, the Steam Awards are always looked forward with great anticipation. Unlike The Game Awards, the winners of Valve’s Steam Awards’ are primarily decided through player votes. After it debuted in 2016, the awards take place annually to recognize the excellence of video games released on Valve’s game distribution platform. The 2023 nomination with the announcement of the nominations on December 17.
How are the results of the Steam Awards decided?
The Steam Awards involve a unique format that is based on two key phases. In the initial phase, Valve shortlists a variety of award categories that push beyond the usual categories seen in other gaming awards. Then begins the nomination period. This year the nomination period ran from November 21 to November 28, 2023.
Your Steam Awards 2023 nominees are now announced! Check out the contenders ahead of voting which starts on December 21st @ 10am Pacific, the start of the Winter Sale.https://t.co/eSgcvJSJUu
— Steam (@Steam) December 15, 2023
Any player having a registered Steam account could participate in the nomination process by nominating a game they feel fits a specific category. Post this, Valve reviews all the nominations and picks the top five most nominated games for each category.
Then begins the second phase, wherein Valve announces the nominated games. This year, Valve announced the list of nominated games for 2023 on December 17, 2023. These nominated games are then presented to the entire Steam community for voting. After the voting process is completed, Valve announces the winners, that is the games that the community has chosen for each category.
This unique format makes Steam Awards stand out since it is driven by the gaming community, letting players to actively contribute to the recognition of exceptional games.
What time will the results of Steam Awards 2023 be announced?
The Steam Awards 2023 is one of the most anticipated events of the year, thanks to its player involvement format and its coinciding with some of Steam’s biggest annual sales, Winter sale, and Autumn sales. The Steam Awards 2023 allowed players to vote for their favorite game from 11 diverse categories.
After the nominations were announced on December 17, 2023, the voting began on December 21, 2023, at 10 AM Pacific Time, wherein players can vote for their favorite games until January 2, 2023, at 10 AM Pacific Time, that is exactly when the winners will be announced.
Thus, the winners of the Steam Awards 2023 will be announced on January 2, 2023, at 10 AM Pacific Time, and draw curtains to its annual celebration. The Steam Awards decided collectively by the the gaming community, recognize the excellence of titles in various aspects of gaming. Currently, all eyes are on which games emerge victorious at the Steam Awards 2023.
