The winners of 2025’s Steam Awards have been announced, with Hollow Knight: Silksong winning Game of the Year.
Team Cherry’s long-awaited sequel to 2017’s Hollow Knight was the only game to win two awards, with it also taking home the Best Game You Suck At accolade.
Silksong surpassed half a million concurrent players on Steam a day after its launch last September, and made it into the Top 20 biggest Steam games ever by concurrent count.
Supergiant Games’ Hades 2 was named Best Game on Steam Deck, breaking its early access peak with 112,000 concurrent players on Steam during its launch weekend.
AdHoc Studios’ Dispatch won the Outstanding Story-Rich Game Award, a title that sold one million units in 10 days.
Elsewhere, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 received Best Soundtrack, Silent Hill F took home the Outstanding Visual Style Award, and Arc Raiders won Most Innovative Gameplay.
Other winners included The Midnight Walk for Game of the Year, Baldur’s Gate 3 for Labor of Love Award, Peak for the Better with Friends Award, and RV There Yet for the Sit Back and Relax Award.
Here are the full list of winners:
- Game of the Year: Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry)
- VR Game of the Year: The Midnight Walk (MoonHood)
- Labor of Love Award: Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian Studios)
- Best Game on Steam Deck: Hades 2 (Supergiant Games)
- Better With Friends Award: Peak (Aggro Crab/Landfall)
- Outstanding Visual Style Award: Silent Hill F (NeoBards Entertainment)
- Most Innovative Gameplay: Arc Raiders (Embark Studios)
- Best Game You Suck At: Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Best Soundtrack: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive)
- Outstanding Story-Rich Game Award: Dispatch (AdHoc Studio)
- Sit Back and Relax Award: RV There Yet? (Nuggets Entertainment)
