As someone that absolutely loves BG3 with over 400 hours and even bought multiple copies for my friends, there were way better candidates for this particular award. Did we really even get that much this year for BG3 compared to games like No Mans Sky and Helldivers? I’m not saying those games are better, just that in terms of content and support Larian didn’t really do much this year while No Mans Sky got two huge updates and Helldivers has been consistently adding stuff all year.
The steam awards are a bigger joke than other game awards, more obvious it’s just a name recognition popularity contest. I haven’t really put much stock in which wins what since the first year.
Same, honestly. Last year the labor of love went to Elden Ring over Baldur’s Gate 3, Stardew Valley, and No Mans Sky when the only thing they did was release a DLC while the other three had huge content updates all for free.
I haven’t heard anything about BG3 getting a major update since modding tools were added, and it looks like that was 2024. It’s a very weird game to even be nominated.
Edit: It sounds like Larian added native Linux support and new subclasses in 2025, that sounds like enough to qualify for a labor of love award to me!
They did a native linux release
Patch 8, released in April 2025, added a new subclass for each character class, photo mode and console-pc-crossplay: https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Guide:Patch_8_preview
are me and my 3 youngins your friends too now?
