BAFTA Games Awards 2026 winners announced: the full list

The annual BAFTA Games Awards, the last of the Big Five ceremonies of the gaming awards season, reveals its winners on Friday, April 17, with a ceremony in London.

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

• Arc Raiders
• Blue Prince
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• 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

• Blue Prince
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• 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

• And Roger
• Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
• Consume Me
• Despelote
• 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

• Aaron Paul as Robert Robertson in Dispatch
• Ben Starr as Verso in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Erika Ishii as Atsu in Ghost of Yōtei
• Jennifer English as Maelle in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• 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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