With 12 nominations, acclaimed role-playing journey Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was anticipated to be the runaway success at the 2026 Bafta games awards, held in London on Friday night.
And whereas it couldn’t fairly match its 9 wins at the Game Awards again in December, it was nonetheless the joint largest winner on the evening, taking finest sport and debut sport in addition to the performer in a number one position award for Jennifer English.
Alongside it was superhero comedy Dispatch, which gained animation, audio achievement and performer in a supporting position for Jeffrey Wright. The solely different a number of winner on a diversified, unpredictable evening was historic samurai slasher Ghost of Yōtei, taking trophies for music and technical achievement.
The visually gorgeous post-apocalyptic epic Death Stranding 2 attracted seven nominations however took simply the one: inventive achievement. In the British sport class, Rebellion’s Nineteen Fifties-themed nuclear catastrophe thriller Atomfall claimed the prize in opposition to an attention-grabbing array of rivals together with Two Point Museum and Power Wash Simulator 2. Another British sport, No Man’s Sky, gained 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 powerful area together with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Dispatch, Arc Raiders and Split Fiction. The games past leisure award, which recognises games that ship “a transformational experience”, went to the attractive semi-autobiographical Despelote, a few boy’s expertise of Ecuador’s 2002 World Cup qualifying journey. Finally, Arc Raiders gained in multiplayer and Lego Party! took the household award.
The Bafta Fellowship was offered to Ilkka Paananen, chief government and co-founder of smartphone games developer Supercell, creator of smash hits Clash of Clans and Clash Royale.
The full record of Bafta games awards winners
Animation Dispatch
Artistic achievement Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Audio achievement Dispatch
Best sport Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
British sport Atomfall
Debut sport Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Evolving sport No Man’s Sky
Family Lego Party!
Game past leisure Despelote
Game 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 position Jennifer English as Maelle in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Performer in a supporting position Jeffrey Wright as Chase in Dispatch
Technical achievement Ghost of Yōtei
