Okay listen. I know I haven't played it myself but... Isn't Arc Raiders just another fucking extraction shooter? How the fuck does it beat Blue Prince for most innovative gameplay?
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Steam Awards is a popularity contest.
Arc is definitely the "yep, steam voters have shit taste" one of the bunch.
Yeah, the rest I can understand, Arc Raiders is anything but innovative.
It’s innovated in that it’s an extraction shooter that has mass appeal and isn’t a total drag to play but it’s not exactly game breaking mechanics-wise.
I think it’s the multiplayer game of the year. Wouldn’t call it the most innovative game of the year
Because people have no idea what innovative means. Nor does Valve, since Arc Raiders was in the category.
Nor does Valve, since Arc Raiders was in the category.
Valve doesn't decide anything, the whole Steam awards are voted by the community. It's a popularity contest.
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While I don't think it deserves the win over Blue Prince, it does have some interesting gameplay innovations compared to others in the genre, as well as some interesting tech.
In particular, the included PvE element, as well as the sorter session and decreased death penalty makes the game much more accessible. It also helps offer an incentive to not shoot-on-sight, as the bots serve as a common enemy and shared threat. Its a difference between games like PUBG where games are tense, hour-long affair, and something like Fortnite where its colourful, easy to get into, and despite still being competitve, filled with other diversions for those who won't win.
It also sold way better than Blue Prince did. The Steam awards are always going to be weighed heavily in favour of the better selling games.
"Innovative" means "hey, I think I've heard of this title!".
Isn't Blue Prince just Betrayal at House on the Hill the video game?
Well... kinda but not really. The room-placement is only a small part of Blue Prince though and I think turning it into a roguelite was pretty innovative.
Funny story, Tonda Ros actually hadn't heard of Betrayal until Blue Prince was well into beta testing. These things happen. The true inspiration for it was a choose-your-own-adventure/puzzle book by Christopher Manson called "The Maze". Manson actually contributed with the art for the paintings in the Gallery in Blue Prince.
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Steam awards are pretty much always like this. Popularity over the actual category itself.
Damn, they did my boy The Alters dirty. Not a single win.
Also, Arc Raiders most innovative? Isn't it just an (admittedly improved) extraction shooter?
My one issue with Alters was if you make certain decisions with what to produce or work on, at certain points, I had to roll back pretty far to undo them to just survive upcoming events. Really cool game otherwise.
It's definitely flawed. But I found it to be original if nothing else and a breath of fresh air in a sea of extraction shooters, rogueliles and soulslikes. Rather reminded me of Death Stranding when it came out.
I love the story of that game, too, but being unable to progress at those points makes for a good strategy game while also being antithetical to its message, lol.
The awards are fun when I compare my vote list with my friends' vote list, but the actual awards are just annoyingly pointless.
The winner of each category is predictable immediately. It will only ever be the game with the highest number of players and the category doesn't matter.
If GTA6 comes out in 2026 and posts "we are hoping to win the Emotional Indie Platformer Award", it's going to win the Emotional Indie Platformer Award.
RV There Yet isn't really that chill. It's also highly frustrating at times.
It's also trying to ride the success of Peak
It winning was really surprising to me. It was fun for like 15 minutes. I guess... people like it? It's a meme? Idk.
Silksong winning GOTY and BGYSA is great. Seeing Peak up there was nice too. I was a little surprised to see BG3- great game, but I thought it was EOLed in 2024 after native steam deck support.
You weren‘t kidding. These are all real winners for the players. And I wouldn‘t say last year was totally packed. At least not for me but this is a great list of games to add to your pile of shame.
It's refreshing to see Expedition 33 winning a category it deserves, and only that category.
The difference between awards chosen purely by people who play video games and awards chosen primarily by people who make their pay cheques in the industry
Main thing I'm sad about is deltarune not winning the soundtrack category.
I was a little sad that Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 didn't win anything. That was my personal GOTY
I only just started Silent Hill F and the coolest visual I have seen was the very first "everything dissolves into the hellish world" scene.
It's always been a staple of the series, but this time is looks so fucking cool with how it dissolves everything, not just the surface textures.
Kinda wonder if having a newer RTX GPU would make it look better; the settings for Lumen don't really change how it looks, it just massively drops my framerate 🤷♂️
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