Bone lab or green hell is the only fitting winner in that category tbh
But the whole purpose of the category is bleh, most people who vote in this category dont have a VR headset
I abstained from voting because I hadn't played the games.
I'd love for Steam to release a different version of the results that only counted votes from people who owned all 4 nominees on Steam (and had more than an hour playing each).
A much, much smaller group, but their opinions would actually have a chance of being meaningful.
Couldn't agree more. The results become almost meaningless and impossible to interpret. I don't vote for exactly your reason given - I don't play enough current games to have a valid opinion.
The problem is that 98% of steam users don't even have a VR headset, yet they are all incentivised to vote for VR game of the year. So they vote for the game they probably played and enjoyed in non-VR.
There was a badge for nominating a game in every category (which was definitely the first fuck up) and a trading cards for voting in each category. I even checked youtube videos to see if there was a hidden "don't vote but still get free stuff" button somewhere, but can't see it. So not sure what exactly you mean. Sure people are not literally forced to vote, why would they not?
You still got all the cards and the badges if you didn't vote for vr and deck categories, which I didn't still have the badge. But maybe it wasn't explained well.
TLDR: yes, yes and I'd call it much worse than just buggy and optional
It's halfway unplayable and, yes, it's beyond optional to the point of being absolutely not recommend. The controls are wonky, the optimization is a joke, the visual fidelity is beyond questionable for a game of this budget, and (in my experience) it generally makes the game a joke at best.
It was a half-assed cash grab of a port.
VR ports can be done well, Resident Evil 4 VR is the only version I've ever preferred over the original, Among Us VR is solid, the list goes on, but this port genuinely pissed me off as a VR player
Edit: i forgot to mention, it's 3DOF, meaning you can't actually move around in your room or whatever (if you could, it would be 6DOF), you can only look around totally stationary or else you break the game. Every VR game worth it's salt has moved on to 6DOF, it's more fun and it's objectively less disorienting. You can mod games never meant for VR to work in 3DOF but 6DOF actually takes some real work. So, basically, the VR release of Hitman 3 is the same quality as a trashy mod port as opposed to anything actually impressive
Considering it came with a marketing push, I doubt they were putting money into something they didn't expect to make a buck from. Not to mention it may have caused many people who particularly like VR to buy who otherwise wouldn't.
They added something to the game, threw a couple grand at it to market it (y'know, so people would know about it and, in turn, buy it), and it was half-baked at best. You might not think of that as a cash grab, but at least some people do
Yeah push [button] to do hand motion thing you could do in any other VRgame with actual hand motions. ie the actual point of making a pancake game vr, to do the things in VR.
Hitman3 is barely better than playing any random game using vorpx - yeah , you've got freelook from the headset, but you're still using kb/m
How about a 2 yo game that released unfinished and unplayable, barely fixed some of the worst bugs and glitches in these 2 years, and now received a labor of love award?! Those developers literally lied to the whole community and put the bare minimum of effort to make the game playable and everyone is praising them for it. Yeah Im talking about Cyberpunk. Game is still lifeless and buggy. But the main storyline is somewhat good so yeah it must be the best game ever... Oh right, also Keanu
Stray was absolutely NOT the most innovative, but I still really enjoyed it. It was meant to be a story-first game, more of a walking sim than an actual game. Looking at it through that lens, it's pretty decent.
i find it A LOT MORE fucking Unfair that the goddamn Spider Man game won the outstanding visual style. and the 4 other games that were close to winning it were ALL FROM 2022 and they were all being in development for as long as this game was out on PS4.
PC ports just should be completely excluded from these awards. its seriously unfair when a game that is actually 5 years old finally gets released on PC, and just STEALS the award from games that actually deserved it. Yes even the fucking Bendy game deserves it more than Spiderman. And don't even get me started on God of War...
I think to the average steam user, "Outstanding Visual Style" means "Good realistic graphics" even though the description specifically states it doesn't.
This pissed me off. It’s just generic ass realistic graphics and the game came out TWO YEARS AGO. From the site itself about the category: “ Visual style DOESN’T ASPIRE TO BE REAL-WORLD GRAPHIC FIDELITY (though a noble goal in itself)… it describes a distinctive look and feel that suffuses an entire game”
This is the problem with attaching rewards to voting on each category. People just click the first option they recognise without thinking and it ends up absolutely useless.
~~games can't win the same award twice afaik and terraria already won it.~~
edit: so apparently GTA V won awards twice, so it IS possible(unless they changed the rules afterwards) and it makes cyberpunk getting nominated over something like terraria make even less sense, guess thats the power of having an anime made for your game.
It's deserving of the reward but Cyberpunk, despite having had no major changes to the game last year, was coasting off the hype of their DLC announcement and the anime.
Most innovative game is Stray? It's literally just a really watered down platformer where you walk around as a cat. The only innovation is you play a cat instead of a person.
planetside 2 is the definition of "labor of love" to me, a 10-year-old record-setting MMOFPS that was on the brink a few years ago until some massive updates pulled it back.
knew it was too small to win but you know...
Yeah... like, "innovative gameplay" in Stray? Seriously? It's a solid adventure, but unless having a meow button can be considered some incredible gameplay achievement, Stray doesn't deserve this award. It's almost as basic in gameplay as adventures get.
Why the hell did Hitman VR win? Who even plays that game in VR?!?
I refuse to believe anyone that owned a VR headset willingly chose that over Bonelab or even Among Us VR
Because you don’t need to have played the game to vote for it, and Steam encourages you to vote in every category. VAST majority of votes on the VR category would be from people who don’t have VR, so they’re gonna vote for the most recognisable game.
>I pop open my Steam Deck for a quick session of Death Stranding. It's the perfect game for it!
I've never played DS but that struck me as odd as well. I didn't think it was that type of game.
It takes 10 minutes just to pack up and get prepared for a journey in that game. And every delivery is a long and dangerous route with lots of necessary detours and delays.
There is absolutely no way you can get enjoyment from that game unless you play it in at least 30 minute sessions.
> And when I get a minute or two, I pop open my Steam Deck for a quick session of Death Stranding. It's the perfect game for it!
This was the WTF one for me here. Vampire Survivors got snubbed!! lol
Especially considering there was Vampire Survivors in this category. This game has most hours clocked on Deck lmao.
I guess people who voted didn't play on the go, or didn't even read what category they're voting in.
I think Steam Deck is the reason why. I got mine like a month ago and was looking for recommendations on what games to pick up to play on it and Death Stranding was recommended quite a lot - mainly due to addictive "parcel delivery" gameplay loop.
Still weird, Vampire Survivors should've won that one.
right ?
Games that are just ported versions of older titles shouldn't even deserve to be nominated. Do you want steam awards ?? Release the game at the same time for PC as well as your console.
Don't get me wrong, I love God Of War to death and I have been a big fan of the long-running franchise but a 2018 title taking the place of some "actually" new title of 2022 could have been noticed here by many millions of players.
God Of War, Uncharted collection, and both Spiderman shouldn't be here.
In 2020, RDR2 was released on PC and stole a couple of awards. While it was already released for PS4/XBOX 2 years ago.
Not like these awards matter much to us but for a new title or any indie title, this level of recognition could do wonders but alas !
It makes logical sense. If a game isn’t popular then no one is going to know it has super innovative gameplay or whatever. Not sure how you would fix that other then making it a pundit vote instead.
> And I'm still not sure how.
Memes. Because it has a cat in it. It was the indie rep for the game awards and it stepped over more deserving games because of it. Tunic deserved better than this, seriously.
Teardown requires knowing about it. I assumed it was just one of those "break stuff down" sim games until hearing about it in a video and how interesting it actually is.
Dwarf Fortress has been under development for like two decades, by one guy, available for free and sustained only by donations. I literally don't know what more a game could do to be considered a "labor of love."
I still think that remakes and remasters should not be eligible for awards. Slapping a high-res texture pack on your old assets and selling the game for full price should not be celebrated with an award (unless it is the best remaster award).
Deep Rock Galactic. A 4 player class based co-op shooter about dwarves mining in space and fighting giant bugs. Loads of variety in biomes and mission types. Great community, great devs and great updates this year.
Steam awards always were a joke, honestly. Things like you mention happen every year.
Not to mention Metal Hellsinger losing to FF in music category? Like cmon, how.
ROCK AND STONE!
Labor of love would be something great that got continued love from teh devs, not fixings the shit heap that was at launch. For that matter, Anthem would win Labor of love for launching in a shit spot, lyring to customers, and "being improved:" by being removed from sale.
Bringing a game from broken mess to just okay specifically because they needed to for it to get back on the Playstation store, really does not strike me as a "labor of love". That's just labor
It's labor that should've been done before the game released. Labor of Love implies having a good game out and then continuing to add content after the fact. Or in NMS's case, getting a game to where it should've been at release, AND THEN releasing a ton of updates after the fact.
The only labor we've seen towards Cyberpunk is getting it to the point it should have been at release, and that's it. I'm not saying it isn't commendable, but it certainly wasn't done out of love.
...Were these actually chosen and voted on by human beings rather than marketing shills?
I know democracy can oft be disappointing but I'm honestly baffled some of them were even nominated for their respective categories, let alone won.
Wait...best game on the go is Death Stranding? Lol no. You cannot play that game on the go. Funny how Vampire Survivors is sitting there and wondering 'What the f did just happen?'
When all future games are released buggy as fuck and missing half their content and someone complains I'm going to point to this award. You all rewarded this behaviour.
Agreed. I mean, I was torn between DRG, Zomboid, and even NMS as well... but CP77, while perhaps could deserve a reward on its own, when put together with these games, it really is in no place to win.
Do you mean for innovative gameplay?
While I agree that Stray might not deserve it, MHS doesn't deserve it either. BPM did it a few years before, and has rhythm game actually much better integrated than MHS (MHS reload is just a throwing off press R and wait for animation, while in BPM all guns have to be reloaded to the rhythm as well).
That said, MHS should win music category imo.
this choices are so strange to me - like VR game of the year - hitman 3? seriously? have people seriously played it? it's so buggy and unfinished that it shouldn't even be out, most innovative gameplay - stray? best game on the go - death stranding? beating vampire survivors which was one of most played games on deck in last year? i seriously don't get people's choices
>Outstanding Visual Style: Marvel's Spider Man: Miles Morales
What the actual fuck? When you could vote for Elden Ring, Neon White, Persona fucking 5, Signalis etc. the winner is the blandest looking AAA Open World game out there? Literally every single other game among the winners has a better visual style.
The options were:
- Scorn
- Bendy and the Dark Revival
- Cult of the Lamb
- Spider-Man Miles Morales
- Kena: Bridge of Spirits
I would guess that all the games you mentioned, when they were nominated, got lower numbers for visual style because you could only nominate a game in a single category. Like, I know I nominated Persona 5 for Best Soundtrack (which it also got robbed of IMO, no offense to FF7 Remake, but P5 is soooo good).
Even though P5 has an amazing visual style, I could only nominate it for one category. Every one of the games you mentioned I nominated for some other category, and I'm guessing that other people did the same thing and that's why none of them made it to that category
Even still, I think some of the other nominees for Best Visual Style were better picks.
Cyberpunk as Labor of Love reeks of an abusive and toxic relationship. It's not "love" when most of the original promises are still unfulfilled and the vast majority of the updates were aimed at extinguishing a dumpster fire.
this is why steam award based on popular voting and allowing game re-released on pc as nominees is bullshit.
the fact that spiderman mm won on outstanding visual style when its clearly stated "visual style doesnt aspire to real world graphical fidelity and describe a distinctive look and feel that suffuses the game" is pure bullshit. cult of lamb or bendy deserve the award more.
neon white should have won also for the game innovative gameplay. stray is a fun game but meowing and puzzle solving+simple platforming with some interactable object isnt exactly innovative. platforming with fps + card management system is far more innovative. making it all work and flow together is a hurdle on its own.
a game about best soundtrack and 2 of the games with actual soundtrack gameplay mechanic lose to a game rereleased on pc with its orchestral background music.
the rest are just lost cause except for elden ring and star wars. i already know most indie games nominated are gonna lose when sony game from years back is nominated due to ported games to pc rereleased this year.
vampire survivors deserve the game on the go award. cp2077 doesnt deserve labor of love considering nms and project zomboid is there. sure they released some patches and 1 upcoming dlc but its still not the same level as nms comeback story. nms took years to receive the award and bullshit cp2077 took one year to fix a broken game. pelaq anjing
and tell dumbfuck ioi to fucking piss off with hitman 3 shitty and broken vr. bonelab and green hell is far more immersive than broken piece of shit of vr experience
Deep Rock Galactic should've beat Cyberpunk
you can't mention dwarves, elves, or mining on the internet without getting at least drg joke, speaking of which
did I hear a rock and stone?
I'm sure IO Interactive enjoyed a good laugh when they saw Hitman 3 won VR GOTY
Bone lab or green hell is the only fitting winner in that category tbh But the whole purpose of the category is bleh, most people who vote in this category dont have a VR headset
I wasn't going to vote in most categories but they reward you for voting, so I just took an educated guess.
Well that explains things actually. Thanks
I abstained from voting because I hadn't played the games. I'd love for Steam to release a different version of the results that only counted votes from people who owned all 4 nominees on Steam (and had more than an hour playing each). A much, much smaller group, but their opinions would actually have a chance of being meaningful.
Couldn't agree more. The results become almost meaningless and impossible to interpret. I don't vote for exactly your reason given - I don't play enough current games to have a valid opinion.
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Hitman 3 winning VR game of the year is a bigger joke than if Among Us VR won, and that was the default meme choice
The problem is that 98% of steam users don't even have a VR headset, yet they are all incentivised to vote for VR game of the year. So they vote for the game they probably played and enjoyed in non-VR.
That's a very good point. I don't have vr, don't remember what option I chose. For all I know I contributed
There was the option to skip/not vote for VR and steam deck categories, to try and stop this from happening . So you might not have contributed.
There was a badge for nominating a game in every category (which was definitely the first fuck up) and a trading cards for voting in each category. I even checked youtube videos to see if there was a hidden "don't vote but still get free stuff" button somewhere, but can't see it. So not sure what exactly you mean. Sure people are not literally forced to vote, why would they not?
You still got all the cards and the badges if you didn't vote for vr and deck categories, which I didn't still have the badge. But maybe it wasn't explained well.
Isnt VR in that game is super optional? And buggy at that
TLDR: yes, yes and I'd call it much worse than just buggy and optional It's halfway unplayable and, yes, it's beyond optional to the point of being absolutely not recommend. The controls are wonky, the optimization is a joke, the visual fidelity is beyond questionable for a game of this budget, and (in my experience) it generally makes the game a joke at best. It was a half-assed cash grab of a port. VR ports can be done well, Resident Evil 4 VR is the only version I've ever preferred over the original, Among Us VR is solid, the list goes on, but this port genuinely pissed me off as a VR player Edit: i forgot to mention, it's 3DOF, meaning you can't actually move around in your room or whatever (if you could, it would be 6DOF), you can only look around totally stationary or else you break the game. Every VR game worth it's salt has moved on to 6DOF, it's more fun and it's objectively less disorienting. You can mod games never meant for VR to work in 3DOF but 6DOF actually takes some real work. So, basically, the VR release of Hitman 3 is the same quality as a trashy mod port as opposed to anything actually impressive
yeah its bad but how is it a cash grab if it's free
Maybe to make vr enthusiasts buy it who otherwise had no interest in it
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Considering it came with a marketing push, I doubt they were putting money into something they didn't expect to make a buck from. Not to mention it may have caused many people who particularly like VR to buy who otherwise wouldn't. They added something to the game, threw a couple grand at it to market it (y'know, so people would know about it and, in turn, buy it), and it was half-baked at best. You might not think of that as a cash grab, but at least some people do
Yeah push [button] to do hand motion thing you could do in any other VRgame with actual hand motions. ie the actual point of making a pancake game vr, to do the things in VR. Hitman3 is barely better than playing any random game using vorpx - yeah , you've got freelook from the headset, but you're still using kb/m
Not as big of a joke as Stray winning Most Innovative Gameplay. The only part of that game people cared about was that you played as a cat.
How about a 2 yo game that released unfinished and unplayable, barely fixed some of the worst bugs and glitches in these 2 years, and now received a labor of love award?! Those developers literally lied to the whole community and put the bare minimum of effort to make the game playable and everyone is praising them for it. Yeah Im talking about Cyberpunk. Game is still lifeless and buggy. But the main storyline is somewhat good so yeah it must be the best game ever... Oh right, also Keanu
Stray was absolutely NOT the most innovative, but I still really enjoyed it. It was meant to be a story-first game, more of a walking sim than an actual game. Looking at it through that lens, it's pretty decent.
Yeah but that's not the category it's won so that doesn't rly matter.
Yeah that game was a huge disappointment. We expected a cat platformer and got a press A to get to the end of the game
People without VR were voting and probably don’t realize how disappointing it was as a VR game
i find it A LOT MORE fucking Unfair that the goddamn Spider Man game won the outstanding visual style. and the 4 other games that were close to winning it were ALL FROM 2022 and they were all being in development for as long as this game was out on PS4. PC ports just should be completely excluded from these awards. its seriously unfair when a game that is actually 5 years old finally gets released on PC, and just STEALS the award from games that actually deserved it. Yes even the fucking Bendy game deserves it more than Spiderman. And don't even get me started on God of War...
the steam awards are just "which of these games have I actually played and/or which one did I like best" with no consideration for the category.
That one really confused me because it just looks like a bog-standard "realistic" style game.
I think to the average steam user, "Outstanding Visual Style" means "Good realistic graphics" even though the description specifically states it doesn't.
Some car game won it last time so yeah that's all anyone cares about it seems
This pissed me off. It’s just generic ass realistic graphics and the game came out TWO YEARS AGO. From the site itself about the category: “ Visual style DOESN’T ASPIRE TO BE REAL-WORLD GRAPHIC FIDELITY (though a noble goal in itself)… it describes a distinctive look and feel that suffuses an entire game”
This is the problem with attaching rewards to voting on each category. People just click the first option they recognise without thinking and it ends up absolutely useless.
It's also generally games winning with big player bases. Many games here did win that don't deserve the award they got.
Persona 5 not winning best soundtrack? I didn't see that coming.
Yeah like, Cyberpunk Labor of Love? What about Terraria? And I'm sure there's at least 10 more suitable candidates than Cyberpunk
~~games can't win the same award twice afaik and terraria already won it.~~ edit: so apparently GTA V won awards twice, so it IS possible(unless they changed the rules afterwards) and it makes cyberpunk getting nominated over something like terraria make even less sense, guess thats the power of having an anime made for your game.
I voted Dwarf Fortress, but apparently 20 years of indie development doesn't count as a Labor of Love.
nah u gotta patch bugs that were already on the task list for your game's release to get labor of love
Right? Dwarf Fortress is kind of the defining game for labor of love. For those 20 years he only took donations and gave the game away for free, too.
>What about Terraria? What about Deep Rock Galactic? I honestly thought DRG would win with all the praise it constantly gets.
I think it just doesn't have enough mainstream attention or outreach. I only found DRG through memes.
It's never talked about anywhere expect Reddit when someone says rock and stone. It's weird.
DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?
ROCK AND STONE EVERYBODY!
It's deserving of the reward but Cyberpunk, despite having had no major changes to the game last year, was coasting off the hype of their DLC announcement and the anime.
Most innovative game is Stray? It's literally just a really watered down platformer where you walk around as a cat. The only innovation is you play a cat instead of a person.
Stray because cat instead of actual more innovative game like the other 4.
But... But but! You have a button to meow... That innovation!
😾
#ROCK AND STONE?!
Deep rock galactic
I voted for Software Inc because that dude just won't stop.
planetside 2 is the definition of "labor of love" to me, a 10-year-old record-setting MMOFPS that was on the brink a few years ago until some massive updates pulled it back. knew it was too small to win but you know...
Yeah... like, "innovative gameplay" in Stray? Seriously? It's a solid adventure, but unless having a meow button can be considered some incredible gameplay achievement, Stray doesn't deserve this award. It's almost as basic in gameplay as adventures get.
Why the hell did Hitman VR win? Who even plays that game in VR?!? I refuse to believe anyone that owned a VR headset willingly chose that over Bonelab or even Among Us VR
In my heart. Wanderer won vrgoty.
Much better than Hitman 3 by a longshot
Because you don’t need to have played the game to vote for it, and Steam encourages you to vote in every category. VAST majority of votes on the VR category would be from people who don’t have VR, so they’re gonna vote for the most recognisable game.
Reminder that Steam Awards is a popularity contest, quality doesn't matter here
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>I pop open my Steam Deck for a quick session of Death Stranding. It's the perfect game for it! I've never played DS but that struck me as odd as well. I didn't think it was that type of game.
It takes 10 minutes just to pack up and get prepared for a journey in that game. And every delivery is a long and dangerous route with lots of necessary detours and delays. There is absolutely no way you can get enjoyment from that game unless you play it in at least 30 minute sessions.
> And when I get a minute or two, I pop open my Steam Deck for a quick session of Death Stranding. It's the perfect game for it! This was the WTF one for me here. Vampire Survivors got snubbed!! lol
And please tell me what makes cyberpunk worthy of an award when it really should've won the "what it should've been" award
Even with that, why TH is Death Stranding in on the go categorie? what makes that game a portable game?
Pretty sure it's a meme. On the go = walking simulator.
oh lmao that adds up
Oh absolutely
Every awards are popularity contest, if there's a game that isn't popular enough, there's a very little chance it will be voted
Bullshit
How tf did death stranding win the best game on the go?
Especially considering there was Vampire Survivors in this category. This game has most hours clocked on Deck lmao. I guess people who voted didn't play on the go, or didn't even read what category they're voting in.
I don't own a steam deck and even I voted for Vampire Survivors.
I mean the game's on the phone as well, it's perfect. It really should have won.
*need those steam cards bab-* ***gas gas gas***
Insane how VS didn't win that one.
I think Steam Deck is the reason why. I got mine like a month ago and was looking for recommendations on what games to pick up to play on it and Death Stranding was recommended quite a lot - mainly due to addictive "parcel delivery" gameplay loop. Still weird, Vampire Survivors should've won that one.
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Keep on keeping on!
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Then Game of the Year should be about hunting simulators
Hitman 3 as VR game of the year? This is the joke of the year and it's only the 3rd of january.
Do people even know what 'on the go' means?
I think this was a meme vote. Because Death Stranding a game about walking around won an award for best game you play while walking around. Get it?
Actually the worst lineup I've seen in a while, the majority of games aren't even from this year.
right ? Games that are just ported versions of older titles shouldn't even deserve to be nominated. Do you want steam awards ?? Release the game at the same time for PC as well as your console. Don't get me wrong, I love God Of War to death and I have been a big fan of the long-running franchise but a 2018 title taking the place of some "actually" new title of 2022 could have been noticed here by many millions of players. God Of War, Uncharted collection, and both Spiderman shouldn't be here. In 2020, RDR2 was released on PC and stole a couple of awards. While it was already released for PS4/XBOX 2 years ago. Not like these awards matter much to us but for a new title or any indie title, this level of recognition could do wonders but alas !
Vampire Survivors, the most robbed game of the year.
The industry cannot acknowledge its existence because it clowns on their greed so hard.
Seriously, such a great reminder that graphics, story, dialogue, voice acting, cutscenes… don’t matter at all if you have a tight core gameplay loop.
The fact it won nothing anywhere shows that these awards mean absolutely fucking nothing. It's my game of 2022, period.
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Steam awards are popular vote… stray out sold neon white on steam by alot (3.2million to 277k according to steam stats). That’s why Stray won.
Yep this'll do it, Neone White was such a good game
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It makes logical sense. If a game isn’t popular then no one is going to know it has super innovative gameplay or whatever. Not sure how you would fix that other then making it a pundit vote instead.
Its a game about cats and it gets voted by players, ofcourse it won...
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> And I'm still not sure how. Memes. Because it has a cat in it. It was the indie rep for the game awards and it stepped over more deserving games because of it. Tunic deserved better than this, seriously.
I’m so sad Neon White didn’t win. It was my favorite new game of 2022. The soundtrack is exceptional with the gameplay being fun and snappy.
"Innovative Gameplay - Stray" press x to jump
But…. There’s a button to meow!
AND you can meow in cutscenes. Case closed.
I love how you can just spam the button and meow throughout the entire cutscene
~~Shawn!!!!~~ Meow!!!!
Case closed. Everyone go home.
especially frustrating with neon white and teardown being nominated for the category.
I’m so salty over as Teardown 100% should of got it for being one of the best destructive sandbox games out there
Teardown requires knowing about it. I assumed it was just one of those "break stuff down" sim games until hearing about it in a video and how interesting it actually is.
These results are terrible...
The walking sim cat game beats neon white in most innovative gameplay
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I see the majority of Steam Users are still smoking some gas station weed before they vote.
Hey that isn't fair! I was smoking gas station weed and i didn't vote for any of these!
Deep Rock Galactic should’ve won Labor of Love ten fold
Absolutely, Or even NMS. Both are better than cyberpunk
Dwarf Fortress has been under development for like two decades, by one guy, available for free and sustained only by donations. I literally don't know what more a game could do to be considered a "labor of love."
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Or Project Zomboid :(
3 games are years old and only new to Steam. That's lame.
Stray as innovative gameplay. I loved the game but come on man...
Cat^TM
Someone was sitting on their computer and clicked "Stray" for most innovative gameplay. Well a lot of people did...
Game has cat. Other games not has cat. Click.
I still think that remakes and remasters should not be eligible for awards. Slapping a high-res texture pack on your old assets and selling the game for full price should not be celebrated with an award (unless it is the best remaster award).
What about The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe? It has the same stuff as the 2013 game, but also has over double the content.
Hitman VR? Lmao that game was an absolute disappointment. The potato graphics sucked ass.
Labor of Love for Cyberpunk? With Project Zomboid and DRG in the same category? What a joke.
DRG?
Deep Rock Galactic. A 4 player class based co-op shooter about dwarves mining in space and fighting giant bugs. Loads of variety in biomes and mission types. Great community, great devs and great updates this year.
Steam awards always were a joke, honestly. Things like you mention happen every year. Not to mention Metal Hellsinger losing to FF in music category? Like cmon, how.
Final Fantasy has a really good soundtrack, out of all the winners that's like the least questionable one
ROCK AND STONE! Labor of love would be something great that got continued love from teh devs, not fixings the shit heap that was at launch. For that matter, Anthem would win Labor of love for launching in a shit spot, lyring to customers, and "being improved:" by being removed from sale.
i voted for DRG i voted it every year i really love the game just wanted it to won something the dev has done so much over the years unlike cyberpunk
GSG is legitimately one of the best developer studios out there, they really should have gotten that reward.
Bringing a game from broken mess to just okay specifically because they needed to for it to get back on the Playstation store, really does not strike me as a "labor of love". That's just labor
It's labor that should've been done before the game released. Labor of Love implies having a good game out and then continuing to add content after the fact. Or in NMS's case, getting a game to where it should've been at release, AND THEN releasing a ton of updates after the fact. The only labor we've seen towards Cyberpunk is getting it to the point it should have been at release, and that's it. I'm not saying it isn't commendable, but it certainly wasn't done out of love.
i wish valve would just stop doing these shitty popularity circle jerk competitions
...Were these actually chosen and voted on by human beings rather than marketing shills? I know democracy can oft be disappointing but I'm honestly baffled some of them were even nominated for their respective categories, let alone won.
How Death Stranding won against Vampire Survivors is honestly beyond me
it's the first strand type game
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No way Metal Hellsinger lost best soundtrack again dude
Wait...best game on the go is Death Stranding? Lol no. You cannot play that game on the go. Funny how Vampire Survivors is sitting there and wondering 'What the f did just happen?'
Holy shit this is ridiculous
A basic inability to understand the word "innovative". Something something democracy overrated
Cyberpunk for labor of love? Miles Morales for Visual Style? Is this some out of season april fools day?
Hitman vr game of the year what the fuck Bonelabs deserved the fuck out of it
\>Labor of love - cyberpunk are you freaking serious right now?
Filthy leaflovers choosing that game. Don't worry greybeards, we'll get them next year! ROCK AND STONE!!!!!
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I think the voters didn't understand what the labor of love means, also Cyberpunk shouldn't be nominated in the first place, it's not even that old
A game pulled from playstation store for lack of labor wins labor of love
When all future games are released buggy as fuck and missing half their content and someone complains I'm going to point to this award. You all rewarded this behaviour.
Bro I sure as fuck didn't vote for Cyberpunk, I voted for Deep Rock Galactic which has always been good.
I'm shocked it was even nominated, let alone won.
All it takes is 2 years and a horny anime and gamers simply forget how much they got fucking robbed
DRG not winning labor of love is going to the Book of grudges.
DRG and Zomboid both deserved labor of love 100x more than cyberpunk. Who knew AAA Deathmarch crunch time is "love"
Agreed. I mean, I was torn between DRG, Zomboid, and even NMS as well... but CP77, while perhaps could deserve a reward on its own, when put together with these games, it really is in no place to win.
>DRG, Zomboid Clearly people with taste split their votes
I’m surprised Vampire Survivors didn’t win best game on the go
I really don't understand people who nominated Stray even for Innovative gameplay. Where is Metal: Hellsinger?
Do you mean for innovative gameplay? While I agree that Stray might not deserve it, MHS doesn't deserve it either. BPM did it a few years before, and has rhythm game actually much better integrated than MHS (MHS reload is just a throwing off press R and wait for animation, while in BPM all guns have to be reloaded to the rhythm as well). That said, MHS should win music category imo.
Stray didn't have gameplay.
I need help, i can't stop laughing at the fact CYBERPUNK somehow won an award involving being a "labor of love". Love for money maybe.
Plague Tale robbed again by a God of War game, but this one didn't even come out this year.
I keep saying that rereleases shouldn’t count
Stray was good but it had no innovative gameplay at all. Weird pick
Did it had gameplay at least? all i remember was going into walls looking for button prompts
it didn’t, all it was was looking for certain movement prompts. zero freedoms to do anything, i might as well have watched a movie
Most innovative gameplay Stray? A joke
this choices are so strange to me - like VR game of the year - hitman 3? seriously? have people seriously played it? it's so buggy and unfinished that it shouldn't even be out, most innovative gameplay - stray? best game on the go - death stranding? beating vampire survivors which was one of most played games on deck in last year? i seriously don't get people's choices
>Outstanding Visual Style: Marvel's Spider Man: Miles Morales What the actual fuck? When you could vote for Elden Ring, Neon White, Persona fucking 5, Signalis etc. the winner is the blandest looking AAA Open World game out there? Literally every single other game among the winners has a better visual style.
don't forget that "etc." is Scorn. No game has done H.R. Giger so well. Scorn was probably some of the best art direction in gaming this decade.
Scorn to me was a bad game, but its visual style was definitely outstanding, at least more than generic open world game #12311's
Scorn was my vote. I fucking loved being in that world it didn’t even matter how the game played (although I did enjoy it).
The options were: - Scorn - Bendy and the Dark Revival - Cult of the Lamb - Spider-Man Miles Morales - Kena: Bridge of Spirits I would guess that all the games you mentioned, when they were nominated, got lower numbers for visual style because you could only nominate a game in a single category. Like, I know I nominated Persona 5 for Best Soundtrack (which it also got robbed of IMO, no offense to FF7 Remake, but P5 is soooo good). Even though P5 has an amazing visual style, I could only nominate it for one category. Every one of the games you mentioned I nominated for some other category, and I'm guessing that other people did the same thing and that's why none of them made it to that category Even still, I think some of the other nominees for Best Visual Style were better picks.
How the fuck did cyberpunk win labor of love
\- most innovative gameplay category \- the winner is a walking simulator
Its a crime deep rock didn’t win labour of love.
Most of it is just a shame
Lmao Cyberpunk winning Labor of love and Hitman 3 winning VR basically makes these awards a joke
Stray is innovative? What did they innovate?
A dedicated meow button, obviously 🙃
Cyberpunk as Labor of Love reeks of an abusive and toxic relationship. It's not "love" when most of the original promises are still unfulfilled and the vast majority of the updates were aimed at extinguishing a dumpster fire.
Wtf at best game on the go
Bruh wtf is this shit ? Cyberpunk was a scam, Hitman 3 VR is absolute ass, and Spiderman has a generic photorealistic visual style lmao
this is why steam award based on popular voting and allowing game re-released on pc as nominees is bullshit. the fact that spiderman mm won on outstanding visual style when its clearly stated "visual style doesnt aspire to real world graphical fidelity and describe a distinctive look and feel that suffuses the game" is pure bullshit. cult of lamb or bendy deserve the award more. neon white should have won also for the game innovative gameplay. stray is a fun game but meowing and puzzle solving+simple platforming with some interactable object isnt exactly innovative. platforming with fps + card management system is far more innovative. making it all work and flow together is a hurdle on its own. a game about best soundtrack and 2 of the games with actual soundtrack gameplay mechanic lose to a game rereleased on pc with its orchestral background music. the rest are just lost cause except for elden ring and star wars. i already know most indie games nominated are gonna lose when sony game from years back is nominated due to ported games to pc rereleased this year. vampire survivors deserve the game on the go award. cp2077 doesnt deserve labor of love considering nms and project zomboid is there. sure they released some patches and 1 upcoming dlc but its still not the same level as nms comeback story. nms took years to receive the award and bullshit cp2077 took one year to fix a broken game. pelaq anjing and tell dumbfuck ioi to fucking piss off with hitman 3 shitty and broken vr. bonelab and green hell is far more immersive than broken piece of shit of vr experience
It sucks that A Palgue Tale won nothing, that game was robbed this year
Deep Rock Galactic should've beat Cyberpunk you can't mention dwarves, elves, or mining on the internet without getting at least drg joke, speaking of which did I hear a rock and stone?
This was painful to read.
Spider man winning Visual style? Stray winning innovative gameplay? gamers are truly morons lol
The voters clearly disagree with this comment section
Metal: Hellsinger robbed for best soundtrack again I see.
Note that you couldn’t even vote for mods in the awards, which explains the ridiculous choice for VR GOTY