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BAFTA 2023 Games Awards winners announced

The Bafta 2023 Games Awards found their owners with a ceremony. As a prestigious organization, BAFTA had only one winner in each category, although many games were nominated at the awards ceremony, which could help bring the gaming industry forward on a larger scale. Below you can find the list of candidates and winners we have prepared for you.

Bafta 2023 Games Awards Winners and Nominees

God of War was the winner of the awards given in a total of 17 categories. God of War, which took the lead in almost all the categories for which it was nominated, received four awards, but did not win the Game of the Year Award. On the other hand its rival Elden Ring, achieved only one award.

Game of the Year is Vampire Survivors, a survival game with minimalist gameplay and roguelite elements. The production, which was nominated in five categories, won two of these.

Another game that caught our attention was Tunic. The independent game Tunic won two awards, and was among the productions that marked the night.

At the ceremony, the Bafta Fellowship Award was also presented to Shuhei Yoshida, a veteran of the game industry, who was the president of Sony Interactive Entertainment between 2008 to 2019.


Press Release

The BAFTA 2023 Games Awards winners were announced tonight in a ceremony hosted by Frankie Ward at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and livestreamed on Twitch.  The awards celebrate the very best games of the past year and the people who made them, and showcase a wide range of storytelling and creative excellence from the UK and worldwide.  The Twitch livestream show, hosted by Julia Hardy and Inel Tomlinson, brought players from around the world closer to the awards action.

God of War Ragnarök won five BAFTAs: Animation; Audio Achievement; Music; Performer in a Leading Role for Christopher Judge and Performer in a Supporting Role for Laya DeLeon Hayes.

Vampire Survivors won two BAFTAs: Best Game and Game Design.

Elden Ring won two BAFTAs: Multiplayer and Original Property.

Tunic won two BAFTAs: Artistic Achievement and Debut Game.

Rollerdrome won British Game.

BAFTA 2023 Games Awards winners announced
Image Credit: BAFTA Twitch Broadcast. BAFTA 2023 Games Awards winners announced

Final Fantasy XIV Online won Evolving Game; Kirby and the Forgotten Land won Family; Endling – Extinction is Forever, a game about climate change and the survival of a family of foxes, won Game Beyond Entertainment, the category for games with a social purpose.

Immortality won Narrative; Horizon Forbidden West won Technical Achievement.

The BAFTA Fellowship was presented to Shuhei Yoshida. The Fellowship is the highest accolade given by BAFTA in recognition of an individual’s outstanding and exceptional contribution to film, games or television across their career.

The EE Game of the Year, the only award voted for by the public, went to God of War Ragnarök.

All winners were in attendance and accepted their awards on stage.

BAFTA is a leading arts charity that marks its 76th anniversary this year. Through its Awards, it recognises and celebrates creative excellence in film, games and television and aims to inspire the next generation of talented people, no matter who they are or where they come from. BAFTA discovers and supports talent with a focus on removing barriers to opportunity through its year-round learning and development programme of events and initiatives. Find out more at www.bafta.org/supporting-talent.


BAFTA 2023 Games Awards Winners

Animation

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
  • God of War Ragnarök
  • Horizon Forbidden West
  • Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
  • Sifu
  • Stray

Evolving Game

  • Apex Legends
  • Dreams
  • The Elder Scrolls Online
  • Final Fantasy XIV Online
  • Forza Horizon 5
  • No Man’s Sky

Original Property

  • Citizen Sleeper
  • Cult of the Lamb
  • Elden Ring
  • Sifu
  • Stray
  • Vampire Survivors

Audio Achievement

  • A Plague Tale: Requiem
  • God of War Ragnarök
  • Horizon Forbidden West
  • Metal: Hellsinger
  • Stray
  • Tunic

Game Design

  • Cult of the Lamb
  • Elden Ring
  • God of War Ragnarök
  • Horizon Forbidden West
  • Tunic
  • Vampire Survivors

British Game

  • Citizen Sleeper
  • OlliOlli World
  • Rollerdrome
  • Total War: Warhammer III
  • Two Point Campus
  • Vampire Survivors

Artistic Achievement

  • A Plague Tale: Requiem
  • Elden Ring
  • God of War Ragnarök
  • Immortality
  • Pentiment
  • Tunic

EE Game of the Year

  • Elden Ring
  • God of War Ragnarök
  • Horizon Forbidden West
  • Immortality
  • Marvel Snap
  • Stray

Debut Game

  • As Dusk Falls
  • The Case of the Golden Idol
  • Stray
  • Trombone
  • Tunic
  • Vampire Survivors

Family

  • Disney Dreamlight Valley
  • Kirby and the Forgotten Land
  • Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
  • Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
  • Nintendo Switch Sports
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge

Game Beyond Entertainment

  • Citizen Sleeper
  • Endling – Extinction Is Forever
  • Gibbon: Beyond The Trees
  • I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
  • Not For Broadcast
  • We’ll Always Have Paris

Multiplayer

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
  • EA Sports FIFA 23
  • Elden Ring
  • Overwatch 2
  • Splatoon 3
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge

Music

  • A Plague Tale: Requiem
  • Cuphead – The Delicious Last Course
  • Elden Ring
  • God of War Ragnarök
  • Stray
  • Tunic

Narrative

  • A Plague Tale: Requiem
  • Citizen Sleeper
  • God of War Ragnarök
  • Immortality
  • Pentiment
  • Stray

Performer in a Leading Role

  • Alain Mesa – Alejandro Vargas – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
  • Charlotte McBurney – Amicia – A Plague Tale: Requiem
  • Christopher Judge – Kratos in God of War Ragnarök
  • Manon Gage – Marissa Marcel – Immortality
  • Siobhan Williams – Laura – The Quarry
  • Sunny Suljic – Atreus – God of War Ragnarök

Performer in a Supporting Role

  • Adam J Harrington – Sindri / God of War Ragnarök
  • Alison Jaye – Alva / Horizon Forbidden West
  • Charlotta Mohlin – The One / Immortality
  • Danielle Bisutti – Freya / God of War Ragnarök
  • Laya Deleon Hayes – Angrboda / God of War Ragnarök
  • Ryan Hurst as Thor in God of War Ragnarök

Technical Achievement

  • Elden Ring
  • God of War Ragnarök
  • Horizon Forbidden West
  • Immortality
  • The Last of Us Part I
  • Stray

Best Game

  • Cult of the Lamb
  • Elden Ring
  • God Of War Ragnarök
  • Marvel Snap
  • Stray
  • Vampire Survivors

Murat Oktay

Video games have been my passion for as long as I can remember. I have been writing and managing in the game industry for more than 30 years. I've been playing Diablo 2 nonstop since it first came out.

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