Which 2016 Steam Award did Portal 2 win?

Portal 2 won the 2016 Steam Award for “Villain Most In Need Of A Hug.”

The category was a playful community award, and Portal 2’s likely subject was GLaDOS, the game’s hostile but oddly sympathetic artificial intelligence. Her history with Chell, Aperture Science, and the test chambers gives the game’s villainy a comic and emotionally complicated edge.

The award belongs to the 2016 Steam Awards, several years after Portal 2’s 2011 release. Steam used humorous categories that invited players to celebrate memorable characters, long-term favorites, and unusual aspects of games rather than following a conventional critics’ award structure.

The other options are genuine Steam Award category names, but they belong to different categories or years. “Best Soundtrack,” “Test of Time,” and “Labor of Love” are therefore plausible distractors, not the title Portal 2 won. Portal 2 also earned many earlier accolades for its design, writing, voice performances, and music.