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The Steam Awards, probably one of the biggest awards in gaming, were announced a few days ago. These are not restricted to 2017 and can be from any year, so there's a good chance that you'll have heard of one or more of the games on these lists, particularly as it was publicly voted for. I voted in a few days but didn't get round to participating in them all.

The winners (full graphics here):

Choices Matter
- award for the game with the best decision-making that impacts the plot
Winner: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Nominated: Dishonored 2, Life Is Strange: Before The Storm, The Walking Dead: New Frontier, Divinity: Original Sin II

Mom’s Spaghetti
- award for intense games
Winner: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
Nominated: Outlast 2, Alien: Isolation, The Evil Within 2, Resident Evil: Biohazard

Labor Of Love
- award for games that the developers keep working on
Winner: Warframe
Nominated: Crusader Kings 2, Path Of Exile, Titan Quest, Team Fortress 2

Suspension of Disbelief
- award for most ridiculous game concept
Winner: Rocket League
Nominated: Goat Simulator, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, Saints Row IV

The World Is Grim Enough Let's Just All Get Along
- award for best non-action game
Winner: Stardew Valley
Nominated: Abzu, To The Moon, Cities: Skylines, Slime Rancher

No Apologies
- award for game you love no matter what others think
Winner: The Witcher 1
Nominated: HuniePop, Mount & Blade: Warband, Gothic II, RUST

Defies Description
- self-explanatory
Winner: Garry's Mod
Nominated: Doki Doki Literature Club, Antichamber, Pony Island, The Stanley Parable

Cry Havoc And Let Slip The Dogs Of War
- award for most chaotic explosion/chaos-heavy game
Winner: Just Cause 3
Nominated: Broforce, Total War: Warhammer, Middle Earth: Shadow Of War, Red Faction Guerilla

Haunts My Dreams
- award for game that consumes your thinking time away from the game
Winner: Counterstrike: Global Offensive
Nominated: DOTA 2, Civilization VI, Factorio, Dark Souls III

Soul Of Vitruvius
- best graphical game
Winner: Rise Of The Tomb Raider
Nominated: I Am Bread, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Bayonetta, NiER: Automata

Whoooaaaaaaa, Dude! 2.0
- most trippy game
Winner: The Evil Within 2
Nominated: Luna, Antichamber, CPU Invaders, Hotline Miami: Wrong Number

Best Soundtrack
Winner: Cuphead
Nominated: Undertale, Transistor, Crypt Of The Necrodancer, NiER: Automata

Even Better Than I Expected
- game that is even better than you expected
Winner: Cuphead
Nominated: Hollow Knight, Call Of Duty: WWII, Sonic Mania, Assassin's Creed: Origins

Discuss, do you think any of these awards are deserved or not deserved, is it a popularity contest (it definitely is), are there any big mistakes in the nominations (there definitely are), isn't it amazing that DDLC got a nomination *.* - and more importantly so did Crusader Kings 2, although there's a conspicuous lack of EUIV.