The Steam Awards 2019 winners are pretty on-brand

Sekiro took the top honors

And that’s a wrap for the Steam Awards 2019.

Over the past month, Steam users have nominated their favorite games of 2019 across eight 💎diffe🎃rent categories, from the classic Game of the Year award to more (potentially) surprising awards meant to highlight story-rich games and the best games we suck at, among others. Here are the results:

• Game of the Year: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
• VR Game of the Year: Beat Saber
• Labor of Love: Grand Theft Auto V (again!)
  
• Better With Friends: DayZ
• Most Innovative Gameplay: My Friend Pedro
• Outstanding Story-Rich Game: A Plague Tale: Innocence
• Best Game You Suck At: Mortal Kombat 11
• Outstanding Visual Style: Gris

If some of these winners are catching you off guard – I really wasn’t expecting DayZ to show up anywhere on this list, but I should’ve! – you might find more c🥃ommon ground🌳 with the runners-up.

You can see the other top nominees . As one example, for Game of the Year, the other finalists were Resident Evil 2, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Devil May Cry 5, and Destiny 2.

Funnily enough, the game I threw out as a possible nominee for the Best Game You Suck At, Hunt: Showdown, was a runner-up alongside Code Vein and Mordhau. It’s reassuring to know I’m not alone.

I wonder if people will still be playing Grand Theft Auto V by the time GTA VI rolls around.