8 April 2025
- Astro Bot wins five BAFTAs, including Best Game
- Still Wakes the Deep wins three BAFTAs, including both Performer awards
- Helldivers 2 wins two BAFTAs
- Thank Goodness You’re Here! wins British Game
- Japanese composer Yoko Shimomura receives the BAFTA Fellowship
Read the full list of winners here
London, Tuesday 8 April 2025, 9pm BST: The winners of the 21st BAFTA Games Awards were announced tonight in a ceremony hosted by Phil Wang at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and broadcast live on streaming platforms YouTube and Twitch. The BAFTA Games 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.
Astro Bot won five BAFTAs: Animation, Audio Achievement, Best Game, Family and Game Design.
Still Wakes the Deep won three BAFTAs: New Intellectual Property, Performer in a Leading Role for Alec Newman and Performer in a Supporting Role for Karen Dunbar.
Helldivers 2 won two BAFTAs: Multiplayer and Music.
Thank Goodness You’re Here! won British Game.
Balatro won Debut Game.
Following its Best Game win in 2023 Vampire Survivors won Evolving Game; Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II won Technical Achievement; Metaphor: Refantazio won Narrative.
Tales of Kenzera: Zau, the debut game from BAFTA Breakthrough Abubakar Salim’s Surgent Studios, explores Salim’s own experience of grief and won Game Beyond Entertainment.
Artistic Achievement was won by Neva.
British games developers from across the UK were well represented at tonight’s Awards, with winning teams based in Brighton (Still Wakes The Deep), Cambridge (Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II), London (Tales of Kenzera: Zau, Vampire Survivors) and Yorkshire (Thank Goodness You’re Here!)
BAFTA’s highest accolade, the Fellowship, was presented to composer Yoko Shimomura, in recognition of her prolific and outstanding creative contribution to music in games.
All winners attended the ceremony and accepted their awards on stage.
This year’s BAFTA Games Awards is supported by BAFTA’s Official Partners and EE, Epic Games, PlayStation and The Langham.
The Awards is part of the London Games Festival, which runs from 2 April to 13 April across the UK capital. Find out more at https://games.london/.
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