With 12 nominations, acclaimed role-playing journey Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was anticipated to be the runaway success on the 2026 Bafta video games awards, held in London on Friday night.
And whereas it couldn’t fairly match its 9 wins on the Sport Awards again in December, it was nonetheless the joint greatest winner on the night time, taking greatest sport and debut sport in addition to the performer in a number one function award for Jennifer English.
Alongside it was superhero comedy Dispatch, which received animation, audio achievement and performer in a supporting function for Jeffrey Wright. The one different a number of winner on a various, unpredictable night time was historic samurai slasher Ghost of Yōtei, taking trophies for music and technical achievement.
The visually gorgeous post-apocalyptic epic Demise Stranding 2 attracted seven nominations however took simply the one: creative achievement. Within the British sport class, Riot’s Fifties-themed nuclear catastrophe thriller Atomfall claimed the prize in opposition to an attention-grabbing array of rivals together with Two Level Museum and Energy Wash Simulator 2. One other British sport, No Man’s Sky, received evolving sport. The much-praised puzzler Blue Prince was a worthy winner in sport design, although it misplaced out within the narrative class to Kingdom Come: Deliverance II.
One slight shock was in new mental property, the place South of Midnight beat a robust area together with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Dispatch, Arc Raiders and Break up Fiction. The video games past leisure award, which recognises video games that ship “a transformational expertise”, went to the gorgeous semi-autobiographical Despelote, a couple of boy’s expertise of Ecuador’s 2002 World Cup qualifying journey. Lastly, Arc Raiders received in multiplayer and Lego Get together! took the household award.
The Bafta Fellowship was introduced to Ilkka Paananen, chief govt and co-founder of smartphone video games developer Supercell, creator of smash hits Conflict of Clans and Conflict Royale.
The complete checklist of Bafta video games awards winners
Animation Dispatch
Inventive achievement Demise Stranding 2: On the Seaside
Audio achievement Dispatch
Finest sport Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
British sport Atomfall
Debut sport Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Evolving sport No Man’s Sky
Household Lego Get together!
Sport past leisure Despelote
Sport design Blue Prince
Multiplayer Arc Raiders
Music Ghost of Yōtei
Narrative Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
New mental property South of Midnight
Performer in a number one function Jennifer English as Maelle in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Performer in a supporting function Jeffrey Wright as Chase in Dispatch
Technical achievement Ghost of Yōtei
