Surprise, surprise: Hollow Knight: Silksong is Steam’s game of the year

Valve has announced the winners of a contest Steam Awards 2025 And unsurprisingly, Hollow Knight: Silk Songand received Game of the Year honors. It was also given the “Best Game to Excite” award, which I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not. Given the relentless adulation SilkSong Since its release in September, it has been the event that almost brought everything together Digital video game distribution system On its knees, winning Game of the Year felt like something of a forgotten finale.

The Best Game on Steam Deck award was given to Hades II (An award we already won Unofficially I gave him). Mechanics Hades You can play it in short bursts, and the stylized graphics scale down nicely. Silent Hill F It won the award for Outstanding Visual Style, and while there’s no denying it’s a great title, I can’t help but feel that BBQ dreamwith its unique hallucinatory images, has been robbed. Check out the full list of winners and nominees here on the 2025 Steam Awards landing page.