The nominations for the 2025 BAFTA Games Awards were unveiled in London on Thursday, with a total of 42 games selected across 17 categories by more than 1,700 BAFTA members. Founded in 2004, the honors celebrate “creative excellence in video games and the people who make them.”
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads the noms with 12 nods, followed by Dispatch with nine, Ghost of Yōtei with eight, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach with seven and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle with six.
Aaron Paul, Charlie Cox and Jeffrey Wright are among the first-time performance nominees.
A total of 255 games were considered by BAFTA members this year, and they were released between Nov. 16, 2024 and Nov. 14, 2025. BAFTA had revealed the longlists in December.
Said Tara Saunders, chair of BAFTA’s Games committee: “This year’s nominations reflect an industry reshaping itself — with a vibrant mix of established studios standing alongside a wide range of independent studios and a number of development teams earning nominations for the first time. The exceptional craft, artistry and innovation behind these titles shines through. A nomination is an extraordinary achievement, and I extend my warmest congratulations to every nominee for their innovation, hard work and resilience.”
The winners will be unveiled at the BAFTA Games Awards on April 17. Check out the nominations below.
BATTLEFIELD 6 Development Team – Battlefield Studios/Electronic Arts
DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Hideo Kojima, Masaaki Kawata, Laurie Jezequel – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
DISPATCH Development Team – AdHoc Studio/AdHoc Studio
GHOST OF YŌTEI Development Team – Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
HADES II Craig Harris, Nikita Taranduke, Jen Zee – Supergiant Games/Supergiant Games
HOLLOW KNIGHT: SILKSONG Development Team – Team Cherry/Team Cherry
CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33 Development Team – Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Hideo Kojima, Yoji Shinkawa, Megan Tuckwell – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
DISPATCH Derek Stratton – AdHoc Studio/AdHoc Studio
SOUTH OF MIDNIGHT Development Team – Compulsion Games/Xbox Game Studios
ARC RAIDERS Bence Pajor, Olof Strömqvist, Simon Svanbäck – Embark Studios/Embark Studios
DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Hideo Kojima, Hiroyuki Nakayama – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE Development Team – MachineGames/Bethesda
ARC RAIDERS Aleksander Grøndal, Stefan Strandberg, Virgil Watkins – Embark Studios/Embark Studios
BLUE PRINCE Development Team – Dogubomb/Raw Fury
DISPATCH Nick Herman, Dennis Lenart, Pierre Shorette – AdHoc Studio/AdHoc Studio
CITIZEN SLEEPER 2: STARWARD VECTOR Gareth Damian Martin, Guillaume Singelin, Amos Roddy – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller
MAFIA: THE OLD COUNTRY Development Team – Hangar 13/2K
MONUMENT VALLEY 3 Development Team – ustwo games/ustwo games
POWERWASH SIMULATOR 2 Development Team – FuturLab/FuturLab
TWO POINT MUSEUM Development Team – Two Point Studios/SEGA
CONSUME ME Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson – Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “coda” Snyder/ Hexecutable LLC
DESPELOTE Development Team – Julián Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena/Panic
THE MIDNIGHT WALK Development Team – MoonHood/Fast Travel Games
FALLOUT 76 Development Team – Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda
HELLDIVERS 2 Development Team – Arrowhead Game Studios/Sony Interactive Entertainment
HITMAN WORLD OF ASSASSINATION Development Team – IO Interactive/IO Interactive
NO MAN’S SKY Development Team – Hello Games/Hello Games
VAMPIRE SURVIVORS Development Team – poncle/poncle
WARHAMMER 40,000: SPACE MARINE 2 Dmitry Grigorenko, Oliver Hollis-Leick, Anatolii Koruka – Saber Interactive/Focus Entertainment Publishing
DONKEY KONG BANANZA Development Team – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
IS THIS SEAT TAKEN? Ausiàs Dalmau, Sergi Pérez – Poti Poti/Wholesome Games Presents
LEGO PARTY! Development Team – SMG Studio/Fictions
MARIO KART WORLD Development Team – Nintendo/Nintendo
