My pick: Agreed again The 'Haunts My Dreams' Award: Runners-up: Middle-earth: Shadow Of War Total War: Warhammer II Broforce Red Faction Guerrilla Steam Edition The 'Cry Havoc And Let Slip The Dogs Of War' Award: My pick: Pony Island, and the many secrets thereof.

Runners-up: The Stanley Parable Doki Doki Literature Club Antichamber Pony Island Runners-up: Rust Mount & Blade: Warband HuniePop Gothic II: Gold Edition The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut It does have a wee bit of indirect violence in it, but otherwise it is an incomparably calming and beautiful thing.

Runners-up: Cities: Skylines To The Moon ABZU Slime Rancher My pick: Can't argue with that one The 'The World Is Grim Enough Let's Just All Get Along' Award: Runners-up: Saints Row IV South Park: The Fractured But Whole Goat Simulator Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (the game that most successfully makes a ridiculous concept work)

My personal pick Maybe Titan Quest? It is genuinely impressive how new life has been wrung out of such an old ARPG. Runners-up: Team Fortress 2 Path Of Exile Crusader Kings II Titan Quest: Anniversary Edition (the game with the best post-launch support and new content My personal pick: Resi 7, or at least the first half thereof. Runners-up: Resident Evil 7 Alien: Isolation Outlast 2, The Evil Within 2 My personal pick: Yeah, agreed The 'Mom's Spaghetti' Award: Runners-up: Divinity: Original Sin II Life Is Strange: Before The Storm Dishonored 2 The Walking Dead: A New Frontier (for the game with the most player agency) Plus: I reveal which game I'd have gone for in each category. Vintage cartoon-themed reflex-tester Cuphead leads the charge with two gongs, but ol' Plunkbat and The Witcher series also do rather well - as do a host of other games from 2017's great and good.įull winners and runners-up below, with links to our previous coverage of each game if you're so-minded.

To that end, Valve have announced the winners of the 2017 Steam Awards, a fully community-voted affair which names the most-loved games across categories including best post-launch support, most player agency, exceeding pre-release expectations and most head-messing-with. We've already seen which games sold best on Steam last year, but a perhaps more meaningful insight into movin' and a-shakin' in PC-land is the games that people feel warmest and snuggliest about.

Best games of 2017 steam