In addition to offering massive savings on thousands of titles, the Steam Points Program is updated for the event with new seasonal items -- including animated stickers, avatars, and the Seasonal Profile -- plus additional upgrades and community awards to redeem for Steam Points. Meanwhile, Steam Chat now includes in-line chat reactions with emoticons and animated stickers.
Don't forget to vote! Thanks to millions of nominations from Steam players, the 2020 Steam Award nominees are in. And starting now, the community can vote for the winners of the 2020 Steam Awards' 10 categories and earn trading cards for doing their civic duty. Voting ends on January 3rd, when the winners are scheduled to be announced.
The Winter Sale has begun (ends January 5, 2021 at 10 am Pacific), with deep discounts on thousands of games! But as always that’s not all there is to the event. The Steam Awards nominees have been chosen, there are holiday gifts to pick up, and both Steam Points and Steam Chat have been updated with new features and content.
Grab your Holiday Gifts
This year we’ve teamed up with artist Eric Nyffeler, to help us create the Winter Sale theme, the Seasonal Profile, and... bird stickers!? Why birds, you ask? To that we ask you - why NOT birds? Claim a free animated bird sticker (each inspired by a popular game on Steam) every other day of the sale when you visit the Points Shop, where you'll find other new winter seasonal items.
Vote for the 2020 Steam Award Winners
Thanks to your tens of millions of nominations (a record!) during the Autumn Sale, we have our final nominees for the 2020 Steam Awards. Over forty titles are up for awards across ten categories, and the winners will be chosen by you, the Steam community. Make sure to visit the Steam Awards page to cast your vote before January 3rd, when we will be announcing the winners!
Without further ado, here are your nominees of The 2020 Steam Awards.
- Factorio
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Satisfactory
- The Sims 4
- Untitled Goose Game
- DOOM Eternal
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection
- Helltaker
- Need For Speed Heat
- Persona 4 Golden
- Battlefield V
- Black Mesa
- Marvel's Avengers
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
- Apex Legends
- Crusader Kings III
- EA SPORTS FIFA 21
- Ghostrunner
- GTFO
- Detroit: Become Human
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Mafia: Definitive Edition
- Metro Exodus
- Control
- DEATH STRANDING
- Noita
- Superliminal
- Teardown
- Borderlands 3
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
- Risk of Rain 2
- Sea of Thieves
- Among Us
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- No Man's Sky
- Terraria
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Half-Life: Alyx
- Phasmophobia
- The Room VR: A Dark Matter
- Thief Simulator VR
- STAR WARS Squadrons
- DEATH STRANDING
- DOOM Eternal
- Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
- Hades
- Red Dead Redemption 2
Steam Points Updates
New Profile Showcases and Upgrades
Don’t have enough room to display all your rare achievements or badges? Now you can upgrade your showcases, giving you more room to display your swag. Still not enough room? You can also get additional showcases for your profile, all for Steam Points. Check them out now in the Steam Points Shop. We've also added new showcases to choose from. You can now add the Community Awards, Game Completionist, Featured Artwork, and Video showcases to your Steam Profile.
Profile and Discussion Awards
We’ve seen how Steam players have loved awarding reviews and workshop content, so the team has decided to expand this further. Starting today, you can grant community awards to Steam Profiles and Discussion Board posts as well. Learn more here.
New Community Awards
There are now even more places to award content, so it would be a shame if there weren't more awards to choose from. The team has nearly doubled the number of available community awards with this update - this includes the Clever, Wholesome, Wild, and Saucy awards, just to name a few.
Steam Chat Reactions
Steam Chat has gotten an upgrade as well with today's update - Chat Reactions. You can now react to messages within Steam Chat using your emoticons or animated stickers. Reactions appear in-line below the message, and other players can +1 your reaction or add reactions of their own. This update applies to desktop, web, and mobile versions of Steam Chat.
Enjoy the sale, and stay tuned for announcements about the best games of 2020 and the winners of the Steam Awards!