Astro Bot has as soon as once more received huge at an awards present, this time securing 5 gongs on the 2025 BAFTA Games Awards, together with Best Design, Best Family Game, and Best Game.
The BAFTA Games Awards — the UK’s impartial arts charity celebrating excellence in video games — occurred in a single day on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in London, UK. Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, Astro Bot, and Still Wakes the Deep led the cost with 11, eight, and eight nominations, respectively. Thank Goodness You’re Here! additionally acquired seven nominations, Black Myth: Wukong six, and Helldivers 2 was up for 5 awards.
And the winner of Best Game is…
ASTRO BOT🎮@TeamAsobi pic.twitter.com/fOsI1iGyPP
— BAFTA Games (@BAFTAGames) April 8, 2025
Accepting the award, Astro Bot director Nicolas Doucet paid tribute to the sport builders of the previous, who paved the way in which for Sony-owned Team Asobi and different present studios to seek out success within the trendy period.
Whilst Astro Bot was the night time’s most-crowned recreation, The Chinese Room’s spectacular Still Wakes the Deep secured three wins — together with each performer awards — and Helldivers 2 received two BAFTAs.
Thank Goodness You’re Here!, Balatro, and Metaphor: Refantazio have been additionally among the many winners.
BAFTA Game Awards 2025 winners:
- Best Animation: Astro Bot
- Artistic Achievement: Neva
- Audio Achievement: Astro Bot
- Best Game: Astro Bot
- Best British Game: Thank Goodness You’re Here!
- Best Debut Game: Balatro
- Best Evolving Game: Vampire Survivors
- Best Family Game: Astro Bot
- Fellowship: Yoko Shimomura
- Game Beyond Entertainment: Tales of Kenzera: Zau
- Best Game Design: Astro Bot
- Best Multiplayer: Helldivers 2
- Best Music: Helldivers 2
- Best Narrative: Metaphor: Refantazio
- Best New Intellectual Property: Still Wakes the Deep
- Best Performer in a Leading Role: Alex Newman (Still Wakes the Deep)
- Best Performer in a Supporting Role: Karen Dunbar (Still Wakes the Deep)
- Best Technical Achievement: Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
2024 BAFTA Game Awards winners included Baldur’s Gate 3, which secured 5 wins, together with Best Game, with different wins for Alan Wake 2, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and Viewfinder.
BAFTA lately revealed that essentially the most influential online game of all time, in accordance with the general public, is Shenmue, which left the web considerably puzzled.
BAFTA polled the general public to find that whereas video games like GTA, Tetris, World of Warcraft, Minecraft, Doom, and Half-Life 2 did make the listing, the highest as ranked by the variety of votes acquired was Sega’s 1999 action-adventure recreation.
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