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See the winners of our 3rd annual Thinky Awards tomorrow in our live results show!

Corey Hardt, 3 February 2026

It's our third year running the Thinky Awards, a celebration of the best games from the last year that fit under our little genre-mash-up umbrella. There will be a pre-recorded livestream show where all the winners this year will be announced, which you can catch live on YouTube (link below) or find over on our official awards page, starting at 10am PST/1PM EST/6pm UTC tomorrow (Wednesday) February 4th. (Of course the video will remain available on YouTube to watch later if you can't be there.)

That awards page is also where you can find the lists and links to every game nominated in all 12 award categories this year (whoever the winners are, this is a pretty well-curated spread of recent high-quality games). From our big Game of the Year award to Most Innovative Game to the audience voted Most Anticipated Game, you can find all the info over there.

As an additional accompaniment to our live results show tomorrow, almost all of the nominated games this year are being gathered together in a Steam sale in honor of the awards. This link will take you there once the sale is live tomorrow, around the same time the awards stream starts. (For a few hours tomorrow we're expecting to have a sale banner on the front page of Steam... very exciting stuff.)

I know that some impressive work has gone into the video presentation for the awards this year, and I hope you'll join us live tomorrow to celebrate some great games!

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