Steam awards never fail to be baffling.

That's great, thanks a lot!

I second AoE4, I started playing this year and made it to conqueror recently, it does a great job at teaching you mechanics in a very intuitive way.

Probably Remnant 2 although Hi-Fi Rush is close behind.

Bungie can fuck everything up without Bobby's help tbh.

Good to see Remnant doing so well, it's by far one of the best games this year.

The thing about live service is that it's also a money-vacuum, they need to be making loads of money to keep themselves going.

Starfield probably hasn't lived up to anyone's expectations but people are acting like it's not a solid game still.

Dishonored 1 and 2.

I'll sign up for Returnal.

A few months ago I ran into the demo for an indie game called Laika: Aged through Blood. It came out around a month ago and it's an extremely solid indie game, I'd suggest anyone who likes metroidvanias a shot if you don't mind them being unforgiving as hell.

The movie is pretty bad tbh.

I think I understand what you mean, I only played Splatoon 2 so I don't have much to add, I don't think there is much of a population left sadly.