There's a growing number of games that have apparently fallen foul of Steam's 'No because we say so' rule that are still being happily sold on other major storefronts like GOG.

Also recently DreadXP-published game Vile was outright rejected by Steam too, despite containing *nothing* objectionable.

Another safe choice for The Steam Awards is STALKER Enhanced Edition. Going with it in Story-Rich for now.

On the subject of older games, if someone wants to go back even further, Heretic + Hexen can be nominated as well.

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If Steam allowed to vote for games from every platform and every year, I'd definitely pick Fortnite for Better with Friends. That not being the case, a friend reminded me of GTA V Enhanced. Though we haven't played it together yet, it's the same game with better visuals, and we have definitely […]

I'm voting mostly for ARC Raiders in the Steam Awards, as I haven't played many 2025 games, including some of the potentially great ones like Lost Records, Assassin's Creed Shadows, and South of Midnight. The main reason is my aging PC and that I want to play through the AC series in […]

Though the examples of hate speech from that Discord server I've given were some of the more overt, a more recent message from its moderator is one of the least obvious dog whistles I have seen. It's a video of a man playing violin, captioned "Hey Grandpa, meet my friends... they're J*wish […]

Just like last year, at least to me, the GOTY nominees are not as interesting compared to those in Games for Impact or Innovation in Accessibility. For some reason, Polygon's article listing the nominees completely omitted the latter.

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