BAFTA Games Awards 2025: The Full List of Winners

Astro Bot has erstwhile again won large astatine an awards show, this clip securing 5 gongs astatine the 2025 BAFTA Games Awards, including Best Design, Best Family Game, and Best Game.

The BAFTA Games Awards — the UK's autarkic arts foundation celebrating excellence successful games — took spot overnight connected Tuesday, April 8, 2025, successful London, UK. Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2, Astro Bot, and Still Wakes the Deep led the complaint with 11, eight, and 8 nominations, respectively. Thank Goodness You're Here! besides received 7 nominations, Black Myth: Wukong six, and Helldivers 2 was up for 5 awards.

Accepting the award, Astro Bot manager Nicolas Doucet paid tribute to the crippled developers of the past, who paved the mode for Sony-owned Team Asobi and different existent studios to find occurrence successful the modern era.

Whilst Astro Bot was the night's most-crowned game, The Chinese Room's awesome Still Wakes the Deep secured 3 wins — including some performer awards — and Helldivers 2 won 2 BAFTAs.

Thank Goodness You're Here!, Balatro, and Metaphor: Refantazio were besides among the winners.

BAFTA Game Awards 2025 winners:

• Best Animation: Astro Bot
• Artistic Achievement: Neva
• Audio Achievement: Astro Bot
• Best Game: Astro Bot
• Best British Game: Thank Goodness You're Here!
• Best Debut Game: Balatro
• Best Evolving Game: Vampire Survivors
• Best Family Game: Astro Bot
• Fellowship: Yoko Shimomura
• Game Beyond Entertainment: Tales of Kenzera: Zau
• Best Game Design: Astro Bot
• Best Multiplayer: Helldivers 2
• Best Music: Helldivers 2
• Best Narrative: Metaphor: Refantazio
• Best New Intellectual Property: Still Wakes the Deep
• Best Performer successful a Leading Role: Alex Newman (Still Wakes the Deep)
• Best Performer successful a Supporting Role: Karen Dunbar (Still Wakes the Deep)
• Best Technical Achievement: Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2

2024 BAFTA Game Awards winners included Baldur's Gate 3, which secured 5 wins, including Best Game, with different wins for Alan Wake 2, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and Viewfinder.

BAFTA precocious revealed that the astir influential video crippled of each time, according to the public, is Shenmue, which near the net somewhat puzzled.

BAFTA polled the nationalist to observe that portion games similar GTA, Tetris, World of Warcraft, Minecraft, Doom, and Half-Life 2 did marque the list, the apical arsenic ranked by the fig of votes received was Sega's 1999 action-adventure game.

Vikki Blake is simply a reporter, critic, columnist, and consultant. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.