{"id":2031,"date":"2026-01-04T03:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/surprise-surprise-silksong-wins-steams-game-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T03:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:04:09","slug":"surprise-surprise-silksong-wins-steams-game-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/surprise-surprise-silksong-wins-steams-game-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise, surprise: Silksong wins Steam\u2019s Game of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-6.01.33%E2%80%AFPM.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Valve has announced the winners of the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/steamawards\/2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 Steam Awards<\/a> and, unsurprisingly, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/769489\/hollow-knight-silksong-news-updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hollow Knight: Silksong<\/a><\/em>, took home the Game of the Year honors. It was also given the \u00ab\u00a0Best Game You Suck At\u00a0\u00bb award, which, I&rsquo;m not sure if that&rsquo;s a good thing or not. Given the relentless fawning over <em>Silksong<\/em> since its release in September, an event that nearly brought the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/771461\/silksong-release-steam-nintendo-eshop-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">digital video game distribution system<\/a> to its knees, that it would win Game of the Year felt like something of a forgone conclusion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The Best Game on Steam Deck was awarded to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/783718\/hades-ii-2-1-0-update-review-pc-nintendo-switch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hades II<\/a><\/em> (an award we&rsquo;d already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24152085\/hades-2-steam-deck-performance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unofficially<\/a> granted it). The mechanics of <em>Hades<\/em> lend it to being played in sh \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/853786\/hollow-knight-silksong-steamawards-game-of-the-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has announced the winners of the 2025 Steam Awards and, unsurprisingly, Hollow Knight: Silksong, took home the Game of [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}