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BAFTA today announces the nominations for the 21st BAFTA Games Awards, highlighting an outstanding level of creative excellence from a broad range of UK and international development teams. A total of 41 games across 17 categories are nominated today. View the full list of nominated games at www.bafta.org/awards/games.

The winners will be announced at the 21st BAFTA Games Awards in London on Tuesday 8 April 2025 and will stream live around the world at 19.00 BST / 14.00 ET / 11.00 PT on BAFTA’s YouTube and Twitch.

The highlights of today’s nominations are:

• 11 nominations for Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
• Eight nominations each for Astro Bot and Still Wakes the Deep
• Seven nominations for Thank Goodness You’re Here!
• Six nominations for Black Myth: Wukong
• Five nominations for Helldivers II
• Four nominations each for Animal Well, Balatro, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and LEGO Horizon Adventures
• Nominations in the Game Beyond Entertainment category are: Botany Manor, Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop), Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, Tales of Kenzera: Zau, Tetris Forever and Vampire Therapist.
• Other games receiving nominations: A Highland Song, Cat Quest III, Diablo IV, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, Final Fantasy XIV Online, Harold Halibut, Indika, Little Kitty: Big City, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Neva, No Man’s Sky, Pacific Drive, Paper Trail, Sea of Thieves, Silent Hill 2, Star Wars Outlaws, Super Mario Party Jamboree, Tactical Breach Wizards, Tekken 8, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, The Plucky Squire, Tiny Glade, Vampire Survivors, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and World of Warcraft.
• 11 of the 13 nominees in the performance categories receive their first BAFTA nomination. They are: Alec Newman as Cameron ‘Caz’ McLeary in Still Wakes the Deep; Isabella Inchbald as Indika in INDIKA; Humberly González as Kay Vess in Star Wars Outlaws; Luke Roberts as James Sunderland in SILENT HILL 2; Y’lan Noel as Troy Marshall in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6; Abbi Greenland & Helen Goalen as The Furies in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II; Aldís Amah Hamilton as Ástríðr in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II; Jon Blyth as Big Ron in Thank Goodness You’re Here!; Karen Dunbar as Finlay in Still Wakes the Deep; and Michael Abubakar as Brodie in Still Wakes the Deep. Only Melina Juergens (as Senua in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II) and Matt Berry (as Herbert the Gardner in Thank Goodness You’re Here!) have been nominated previously.
• Two BAFTA Breakthrough participants have been nominated: Abubakar Salim, actor and director (Breakthrough 2019), receives a nomination in Debut Game and Game Beyond Entertainment for Tales of Kenzera: Zau. In 2018 he was also BAFTA-nominated for his performance in Assassin’s Creed: Origins. Laure De Mey, programmer and director (Breakthrough 2021), receives a nomination in Game Beyond Entertainment for Botany Manor.

Best Game Nominations:
Astro Bot
Balatro
Black Myth: Wukong
Helldivers 2
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
Thank Goodness You're Here

All Nominations:

ANIMATION
ASTRO BOT Development Team – Team ASOBI/Sony Interactive Entertainment
CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS 6 Development Team – Treyarch, Raven Software/Activision
LEGO HORIZON ADVENTURES Development Team – Guerilla, Studio Gobo/Sony Interactive
Entertainment
SENUA’S SAGA: HELLBLADE II Development Team – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios
THANK GOODNESS YOU’RE HERE! Will Todd, James Carbutt – Coal Supper/Panic
WARHAMMER 40,000: SPACE MARINE 2 Development Team – Saber Interactive/Focus
Entertainment

ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT
ASTRO BOT Development Team - Team ASOBI/Sony Interactive Entertainment
BLACK MYTH: WUKONG Development Team – GameScience/GameScience
HAROLD HALIBUT Ole Tillmann, Fabian Preuschoff, Onat Hekimoglu - Slow Bros./ Slow Bros.
NEVA Development Team – Nomada Studio/Devolver Digital
SENUA’S SAGA: HELLBLADE II Development Team – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios
STILL WAKES THE DEEP Development Team – The Chinese Room/Secret Mode

AUDIO ACHIEVEMENT
ANIMAL WELL Billy Basso – Billy Basso/Bigmode
ASTRO BOT Development Team – Team ASOBI/Sony Interactive Entertainment
HELLDIVERS 2 Development Team – Arrowhead Game Studios/Sony Interactive Entertainment
SENUA’S SAGA: HELLBLADE 2 Development Team – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios
STAR WARS OUTLAWS Development Team – Massive Entertainment/Ubisoft
STILL WAKES THE DEEP Development Team – The Chinese Room/Secret Mode

BEST GAME
ASTRO BOT Development Team – Team ASOBI/Sony Interactive Entertainment
BALATRO LocalThunk – LocalThunk/Playstack
BLACK MYTH: WUKONG Development Team – GameScience/GameScience
HELLDIVERS 2 Development Team – Arrowhead Game Studios/Sony Interactive Entertainment
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: ECHOES OF WISDOM Development Team – Nintendo/Nintendo
THANK GOODNESS YOU’RE HERE! Will Todd, James Carbutt – Coal Supper/Panic

BRITISH GAME
A HIGHLAND SONG Development Team – inkle Ltd
LEGO HORIZON ADVENTURES Development Team – Guerilla, Studio Gobo/Sony Interactive
Entertainment
PAPER TRAIL Development Team – Newfangled Games/Newfangled Games
SENUA’S SAGA: HELLBLADE II Development Team – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios
STILL WAKES THE DEEP Development Team – The Chinese Room/Secret Mode
THANK GOODNESS YOU’RE HERE! Will Todd, James Carbutt – Coal Supper/Panic

DEBUT GAME
ANIMAL WELL Billy Basso – Billy Basso/Bigmode
BALATRO LocalThunk – LocalThunk/Playstack
PACIFIC DRIVE Development Team – Ironwood Studios/Kepler Interactive
THE PLUCKY SQUIRE Development Team – All Possible Futures/Devolver Digital
TALES OF KENZERA: ZAU Development Team – Surgent Studios/Electronic Arts
THANK GOODNESS YOU’RE HERE! Will Todd, James Carbutt – Coal Supper/Panic

EVOLVING GAME
DIABLO IV Development Team – Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment
FINAL FANTASY XIV ONLINE Development Team – Creative Studios 3/Square Enix
NO MAN’S SKY Development Team – Hello Games/Hello Games
SEA OF THIEVES Development Team – Rare/Xbox Game Studios
VAMPIRE SURVIVORS Development Team – Poncle/poncle
WORLD OF WARCRAFT Development Team – Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment

FAMILY
ASTRO BOT Development Team – Team ASOBI/Sony Interactive Entertainment
CAT QUEST III Desmond Wong Liang Wai, Nursyazana binte Zainal – The Gentlebros/Kepler
Interactive
LEGO HORIZON ADVENTURES Development Team – Guerilla, Studio Gobo/Sony Interactive
Entertainment
LITTLE KITTY, BIG CITY Development Team – Double Dagger Studio/Double Dagger Studio
THE PLUCKY SQUIRE Development Team – All Possible Futures/Devolver Digital
SUPER MARIO PARTY JAMBOREE Development Team – Nintendo/Nintendo

GAME BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT
BOTANY MANOR Development Team – Balloon Studios/Whitethorn Games
KIND WORDS 2 (LOFI CITY POP) Ziba Scott, Luigi Guatieri, Clark Aboud – Popcannibal/Popcannibal
SENUA’S SAGA: HELLBLADE II Development Team – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios
TALES OF KENZERA: ZAU TALES OF KENZERA: ZAU Development Team – Surgent
Studios/Electronic Arts
TETRIS FOREVER Development Team – Digital Eclipse/Digital Eclipse
VAMPIRE THERAPIST Cyrus Nemati, Sheila Fell, Kim Schumacher – Little Bat Games/Little Bat
Games

GAME DESIGN
ANIMAL WELL Billy Basso – Billy Basso/Bigmode
ASTRO BOT - Development Team – Team ASOBI/Sony Interactive Entertainment
BALATRO LocalThunk – LocalThunk/Playstack
HELLDIVERS 2 Development Team – Arrowhead Game Studios/Sony Interactive Entertainment
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: ECHOES OF WISDOM Development Team – Nintendo/Nintendo
TACTICAL BREACH WIZARDS Tom Francis, Steve Lee, John Roberts – Suspicious
Developments/Suspicious Developments

MULTIPLAYER
CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS 6 Development Team – Treyarch, Raven Software/Activision
HELLDIVERS 2 Development Team – Arrowhead Game Studios/Sony Interactive Entertainment
LEGO HORIZON ADVENTURES Development Team – Guerilla, Studio Gobo/Sony Interactive
Entertainment
SUPER MARIO PARTY JAMBOREE Development Team – Nintendo/Nintendo
TEKKEN 8 Development Team - BANDAI NAMCO Studios/ BANDAI NAMCO Studios
WARHAMMER 40,000: SPACE MARINE 2 Development Team – Saber Interactive/Focus
Entertainment

MUSIC
ASTRO BOT Kenneth C M Young - Team ASOBI/Sony Interactive Entertainment
BLACK MYTH: WUKONG Development Team – GameScience/GameScience
FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH Development Team – Square Enix/Square Enix
HELLDIVERS 2 Wilbert Roget II, Ross Tregenza, Keith Leary - Arrowhead Game Studios/Sony
Interactive Entertainment
SENUA’S SAGA: HELLBLADE II Development Team – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios
STAR WARS OUTLAWS Wilbert Roget II, Simon Koudriavtsev, Erik Jacobsson – Massive
Entertainment/Ubisoft

NARRATIVE
BLACK MYTH: WUKONG Development Team – GameScience/GameScience
DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD Development Team – BioWare/Electronic Arts
FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH Development Team – Square Enix/Square Enix
METAPHOR: REFANTAZIO Development Team – ATLUS/SEGA
SENUA’S SAGA: HELLBLADE II Development Team – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios
STILL WAKES THE DEEP Development Team – The Chinese Room/Secret Mode

NEW INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
ANIMAL WELL Billy Basso – Billy Basso/Bigmode
BALATRO LocalThunk – LocalThunk/Playstack
BLACK MYTH: WUKONG Development Team – GameScience/GameScience
METAPHOR: REFANTAZIO Development Team – ATLUS/SEGA
STILL WAKES THE DEEP Development Team – The Chinese Room/Secret Mode
THANK GOODNESS YOU’RE HERE! Will Todd, James Carbutt – Coal Supper/Panic

PERFORMER IN A LEADING ROLE
ALEC NEWMAN as Cameron ‘Caz’ Mcleary in Still Wakes the Deep - The Chinese Room/Secret Mode
HUMBERLY GONZÁLEZ as Kay Vess in Star Wars Outlaws - Massive Entertainment/Ubisoft
ISABELLA INCHBALD as Indika in Indika – Odd Meter/11 bit studios
LUKE ROBERTS as James Sunderland in Silent Hill 2 – Bloober Team/Konami Digital Entertainment
MELINA JUERGENS as Senua in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II - Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios
Y’LAN NOEL as Troy Marshall in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 - Treyarch, Raven Software/Activision

PERFORMER IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
ABBI GREENLAND & HELEN GOALEN as The Furies in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II - Ninja
Theory/Xbox Game Studios
ALDÍS AMAH HAMILTON as Ástríðr in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II - Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios
JON BLYTH as Big Ron in Thank Goodness You’re Here! - Coal Supper/Panic
KAREN DUNBAR as Finlay in Still Wakes the Deep - The Chinese Room/Secret Mode
MATT BERRY as Herbert the Gardner in Thank Goodness You’re Here! - Coal Supper/Panic
MICHAEL ABUBAKAR as Brodie in Still Wakes the Deep - The Chinese Room/Secret Mode

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
ASTRO BOT Development Team – Team ASOBI/Sony Interactive Entertainment
BLACK MYTH: WUKONG Development Team – GameScience/GameScience
CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS 6 Development Team – Treyarch, Raven Software/Activision
SENUA’S SAGA: HELLBLADE II Development Team – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios
TINY GLADE Tomasz Stachowiak, Anastasia Opara – Pounce Light/Pounce Light
WARHAMMER 40,000: SPACE MARINE 2 - Development Team – Saber Interactive/Focus
Entertainment

https://store.epicgames.com/de/news/bafta-game-awards-2025-nominees-reveal?lang=de#:~:text=More%20than%201%2C300%20BAFTA%20members,Games%20has%20released%20the%20longlist.

Games - Bafta

Discover all of the 2025 BAFTA Games Awards' nominees.

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Press Release:

Nominations announced for the 21st BAFTA Games Awards 2025 - Bafta

www.bafta.org

 

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More than 1,300 BAFTA members winnowed down the robust catalog of games released between Nov. 25, 2023, and Nov. 15, 2024 to create the BAFTA Games Awards longlist

No wonder there's a distinct lack of Indy on the list.

11 noms for Hellblade 2, GG you crazy girl.

 

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No wonder there's a distinct lack of Indy on the list.

11 noms for Hellblade 2, GG you crazy girl.

Added all nominations from that link.