In addition to The Game Awards at the end of the year, we continue to have other great events on the video game scene. And just this weekend was the 18th BAFTA Games 2022 Awards Gala, hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (better known as BAFTA), whose main protagonist is video game culture, rewarding excellence in the industry and the latest titles released Over the past year.
With a ceremony held at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, with partial participation without an audience, limited to the winners and nominees themselves, these awards gave Returnal their coveted Game of the Year (GOTY) award.who did not keep this single award by far, managed to accumulate up to four awards and thus became undoubtedly the big winner of the evening.
During the night, however, there were other winners who highlighted both AAA titles from major companies and some truly innovative indie designs. So you will find below complete list with winners and nominees from each of the awarded sections at these BAFTA Games 2022 awards:
Best game: GOTY BAFTA Games Awards 2022
- Returnal (Housemarque / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Deathloop (Arkane Lyon / Bethesda Softworks)
- Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games / Xbox Game Studios)
- Registration (Daniel Mullins Games / Devolver Digital)
- It Wants Two (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)


best animation
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Call Of Duty: Vanguard (Sledgehammer Games / Activision Blizzard)
- It Wants Two (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)
- Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Hunter Schmidt – Ember Lab LLC / Ember Lab LLC)
- Life Is Strange: True Colors (Square Enix, Deck Nine Games / Square Enix)
- Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine Productions / Xbox Game Studios)
The best art section
- The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur / Annapurna Interactive)
- It Wants Two (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)
- Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine Productions / Xbox Game Studios)
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Resident Evil Village (Capcom / Capcom)
- Returnal (Housemarque / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
better sound
- Returnal (Housemarque / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur / Annapurna Interactive)
- Call Of Duty: Vanguard (Sledgehammer Games / Activision Blizzard)
- Deathloop (Arkane Lyon / Bethesda Softworks)
- Halo Infinite (343 Industries / Xbox Game Studios)
- Marvel’s Guardian’s of the Galaxy (Eidos-Montréal / Square Enix)
the best british game
- Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games / Xbox Game Studios)
- Albums: A Wildlife Adventure (two games / two games, Plug In Digital)
- Death’s Door (Acid Nerve / Devolver Digital)
- Fighting in tight spaces (Ground Shatter / Mode7)
- Overboard! (Jon Ingold, Tom Kail, Joseph Humfrey – ink)
- Saber (Shedworks / Raw Fury)
the best debut game
- TOEM (something we did / something we did)
- The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur / Annapurna Interactive)
- East (Pixpil / Chucklefish)
- The Forgotten City (Nick Pearce, Alexander Goss, John Eyre – Modern Narrator / Dear Villagers)
- Genesis Noir (Evan Anthony, Jeremy Abel – Feral Cat Den / Co-traveler)
- Maquette (Graceful Decay / Annapurna Interactive)
best developing game
- No Man’s Sky (Hello Games / Hello Games)
- Between us (Innersloth / Innersloth)
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
- Apex Legends (Respawn Entertainment / Electronic Arts)
- Disco Elysium – FINAL CUT (ZA / UM / ZA / UM)
- Fortnite (Epic Games / Epic Games, People Can Fly)
the best family game
- Chicory: A Color Story (Greg Lobanov, Seashells in a Pit, Madeline Berger, Alexis Dean-Jones, Lena Raine / FINJI)
- Albums: A Wildlife Adventure (two games / two games, Plug In Digital)
- Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games / Xbox Game Studios)
- Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Unpacking (Wren Brier, Tim Dawson, Jeff van Dyck – Witch Beam / Humble Games)
The best game outside of fun
- Before Your Eyes (Goodbye World Games / Skybound Games)
- Albums: A Wildlife Adventure (two games / two games / Plug In Digital)
- Chicory: A Color Story (Greg Lobanov, Seashells in a Pit, Madeline Berger, Alexis Dean-Jones, Lena Raine / FINJI)
- Game Builder Garage (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
- It Wants Two (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)
- Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine Productions / Xbox Game Studios)
the best game design
- Registration (Daniel Mullins Games / Devolver Digital)
- Deathloop (Arkane Lyon / Bethesda Softworks)
- Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games / Xbox Game Studios)
- It Wants Two (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Returnal (Housemarque / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
the best multiplayer
- It Wants Two (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)
- Back 4 Blood (Turtle Rock Studios / Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
- Call Of Duty: Vanguard (Sledgehammer Games / Activision Blizzard)
- Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games / Xbox Game Studios)
- Halo Infinite (343 Industries / Xbox Game Studios)
- Hell Let Loose (Black Matter / Team17)
Best music
- Return (Bobby Krlic, Joe Thwaites, Harry Krueger – Housemarque / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Deathloop (Tom Salta, Erich Talaba, Ross Tregenza – Arkane Lyon / Bethesda Softworks)
- Far Cry 6 (Ubisoft Toronto / Ubisoft)
- Halo Infinite (343 Industries / Xbox Game Studios)
- Psychonauts 2 (Peter McConnell – Double Fine Productions / Xbox Game Studios)
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Scott Hanau, Wataru Hokoyama, Mark Mothersbaugh – Insomniac Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
best storytelling
- Unpacking (Wren Brier, Tim Dawson, Annie VanderMeer – Witch Beam / Humble Games)
- It Wants Two (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)
- Life Is Strange: True Colors (Square Enix, Deck Nine Games / Square Enix)
- Marvel’s Guardian’s of the Galaxy (Eidos-Montréal / Square Enix)
- Psychonauts 2 (Tim Schafer – Double Fine Productions / Xbox Game Studios)
- Returnal (Housemarque / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Best original IP
- It Wants Two (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)
- Deathloop (Arkane Lyon / Bethesda Softworks)
- Death’s Door (Acid Nerve / Devolver Digital)
- Insryption (Daniel Mullins Games / Devolver Digital)
- Returnal (Housemarque / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Unpacking (Wren Brier, Tim Dawson, Jeff van Dyck – Witch Beam / Humble Games)
The best technical section
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games / Xbox Game Studios)
- Hitman 3 (IO Interactive / IO Interactive)
- Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine Productions / Xbox Game Studios)
- Resident Evil Village (Capcom / Capcom)
- Returnal (Housemarque / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
EE GOTY BAFTA Games Awards 2022 (best game voted by the public)
- Unpacking (Witch Beam / Humble Games)
- Chicory: Color Shot (Greg Lobanov, Shell in the Pit, Madeline Berger, Alexis Dean-Jones, Lena Raine / FINJI)
- Dathloop (Arkane Lyon / Bethesda Softworks)
- The Forgotten City (Modern Narrator / Dear Villagers)
- It Wants Two (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)
- Metroid Dread (Nintendo & MercurySteam, Nintendo)