This morning’s BAFTA Game Awards proved to be fruitful for several developers as the event celebrated all of the nominees and recipients with a host of awards for the very best 2021 had to offer in video games.
Among the winners were Aussie teams Witch Beam and Beethoven & Dinosaur, who took home awards for Unpacking and The Artful Escape, respectively.
With games like Inscryption, Unpacking, The Artful Escape, and Chicory winning big in several categories, it servers as further proof that 2021 was a great year for indies. It was also no surprise to see Returnal take out the award for Best Game, after we lavished it with similar praise in our end of year awards.
For the full list, you can head to the official BAFTA website. The list of winners (formatted in bold) is as follows:
Animation
Call of Duty: Vanguard (Sledgehammer Games)
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios)
Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)
Life is Strange: True Colors (Deck Nine Games)
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine Productions)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games)
Artistic Achievement
The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur)
It Takes Two (Hazelight)
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine Productions)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games)
Resident Evil Village (Capcom)
Returnal (Housemarque)
Audio Achievement
The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur)
Call of Duty: Vanguard (Sledgehammer Games)
Deathloop (Arkane Lyon)
Halo Infinite (343 Industries)
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal)
Returnal (Housemarque)
Best Game
Deathloop (Arkane Lyon)
Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games)
Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games)
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games)
Returnal (Housemarque)
British Game
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure (ustwo games)
Death’s Door (Acid Nerve)
Fights in Tight Spaces (Ground Shatter)
Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games)
Overboard! (inkle)
Sable (Shedworks)
Debut Game
The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur)
Eastward (Pixpil)
The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller)
Genesis Noir (Feral Cat Den)
Maquette (Graceful Decay)
Toem (Something We Made)
Evolving Game
Among Us (Innersloth)
Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo EPD)
Apex Legends (Respawn Entertainment)
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut (ZA/UM)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)
Family
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure (ustwo games)
Chicory: A Colorful Tale (Greg Lobanov, A Shell in the Pit, Madeline Berger, Alexis Dean-Jones, Lena Raine)
Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games)
Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo EPD)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games)
Unpacking (Witch Beam)
Game Beyond Entertainment
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure (ustwo games)
Before Your Eyes (Goodbye World Games)
Chicory: A Colorful Tale (Greg Lobanov, A Shell in the Pit, Madeline Berger, Alexis Dean-Jones, Lena Raine)
Game Builder Garage (Nintendo EPD)
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios)
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine Productions)
Game Design
Deathloop (Arkane Lyon)
Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games)
Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games)
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games)
Returnal (Housemarque)
Multiplayer
Back 4 Blood (Turtle Rock Studios)
Call of Duty: Vanguard (Sledgehammer Games)
Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games)
Halo Infinite (343 Industries)
Hell Let Loose (Black Matter)
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios)
Music
Deathloop (Arkane Lyon)
Far Cry 6 (Ubisoft Toronto)
Halo Infinite (343 Industries)
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine Productions)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games)
Returnal (Housemarque)
Narrative
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios)
Life is Strange: True Colors (Deck Nine Studios)
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal)
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine Productions)
Returnal (Housemarque)
Unpacking (Witch Beam)
Original Property
Deathloop (Arkane Lyon)
Death’s Door (Acid Nerve)
Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games)
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios)
Returnal (Housemarque)
Unpacking (Witch Beam)
Performer In A Leading Role
Ozioma Akagha as Julianna Blake in Deathloop (Arkane Lyon)
Jason E Kelley as Colt Vahn in Deathloop (Arkane Lyon)
Jennifer Hale as Rivet in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games)
Jon McLaren as Star-Lord/Peter Quill in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal)
Erika Mori as Alex Chen in Life is Strange: True Colors (Deck Nine Games)
Jane Perry as Selene Vassos in Returnal (Housemarque)
Performer In A Supporting Role
Laura Bailey as Polina Petrova in Call of Duty: Vanguard (Sledgehammer Games)
Kimberly Brooks as Hollis Forsythe in Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine Productions)
Jason Cavalier as Drax in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal)
Maggie Robertson as Lady Dimitrescu in Resident Evil Village (Capcom)
Han Soto as Gabe Chen in Life is Strange: True Colors (Deck Nine Games)
Alex Weiner as Rocket in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal)
Technical Achievement
Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games)
Hitman 3 (IO Interactive)
Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine Productions)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games)
Resident Evil Village (Capcom)
Returnal (Housemarque)
EE Game Of The Year (Voted By The Public)
Chicory: A Colorful Tale (Greg Lobanov, A Shell in the Pit, Madeline Berger, Alexis Dean-Jones, Lena Raine)
Deathloop (Arkane Lyon)
The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller)
It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios)
Metroid Dread (Nintendo/Mercury Steam)
Unpacking (Witch Beam)
