The annual BAFTA Games Awards, the last of the Big Five ceremonies of the gaming awards season, revealed its winners on Friday, April 17, with a ceremony in London. Sandfall Interactive’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 walked away with another Game of the Year win, earning BAFTA’s Best Game award. This is only the second time a game has won all Big Five game awards; the other was Baldur’s Gate 3.
Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 won a total of three awards at the BAFTA Games Awards, including Best Debut and Performer in a Leading Role, which went to Maelle actor Jennifer English.
Going into the ceremony, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 had led the field with 12 nominations, including no less than four in the acting categories. Dispatch had nine nominations, Ghost of Yōtei had eight, Death Stranding 2 had seven, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle got six nods.
With the announcement of the BAFTA winners, the awards season for games released in 2025 (or late 2024, in the case of Indiana Jones) will have finally wrapped up. Clair Obscur has been the runaway favorite all through the race, cementing its status with a record nine wins, including Game of the Year, at The Game Awards in December.
The only tension in the later stages of the race was around whether BAFTA would go the same way. The British academy sometimes goes against the grain with its GOTY picks; in 2018, it ended The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild‘s run by choosing What Remains of Edith Finch, and at the 2023 ceremony it went with Vampire Survivors after every other major awards show had given Elden Ring the top prize.
Here’s the full list of BAFTA Games Awards nominees and the winners so far, highlighted in bold:
Best Game
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Arc Raiders
- Blue Prince
- Dispatch
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Animation
- Dispatch
- Battlefield 6
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Hades 2
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
Artistic Achievement
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Dispatch
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- South of Midnight
Audio Achievement
- Dispatch
- Arc Raiders
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
British Game
- Atomfall
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
- Mafia: The Old Country
- Monument Valley 3
- Powerwash Simulator 2
- Two Point Museum
Debut Game
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Blue Prince
- Consume Me
- Despelote
- Dispatch
- The Midnight Walk
Evolving Game
- No Man’s Sky
- Fallout 76
- Helldivers 2
- Hitman World of Assassination
- Vampire Survivors
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Family
- Lego Party!
- Donkey Kong Bananza
- Is This Seat Taken?
- Mario Kart World
- Powerwash Simulator 2
- Two Point Museum
Game Beyond Entertainment
- Despelote
- And Roger
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
- Consume Me
- STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl
- The Alters
Game Design
- Blue Prince
- Ball x Pit
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Hades 2
- Split Fiction
Multiplayer
- Arc Raiders
- Dune: Awakening
- Elden Ring Nightreign
- Lego Party!
- Peak
- Split Fiction
Music
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Dispatch
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Narrative
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
- Blue Prince
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
- The Alters
New Intellectual Property
- South of Midnight
- Arc Raiders
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Dispatch
- Split Fiction
- The Alters
Performer in a Leading Role
- Jennifer English as Maelle in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Aaron Paul as Robert Robertson in Dispatch
- Ben Starr as Verso in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Erika Ishii as Atsu in Ghost of Yōtei
- Tom McKay as Henry of Skalitz in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
- Troy Baker as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Performer in a Supporting Role
- Jeffrey Wright as Chase in Dispatch
- Alex Wilton Regan as Lea Florence Monad in Lies of P: Overture
- Charlie Cox as Gustave in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Jane Perry as Lia Cain in Dead Take
- Kirsty Rider as Lune in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Troy Baker as Higgs in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Technical Achievement
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Arc Raiders
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Doom: The Dark Ages
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
- Split Fiction
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