BAFTA Games Awards 2025 Reveals Winners With Astro Bot at Helm
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Key points
- Astro Bot won in 5 of 17 categories at the twenty-first ceremony of the BAFTA Games Awards on April 8, 2025, at Queen Elizabeth Hall.
- Yoko Shimomura, a Japanese composer and pianist, was honored with a BAFTA Fellowship, a lifetime achievement award.
- Nominees were selected from the longlist of 58 games, which was compiled after BAFTA’s 1,300 members reviewed a pool of 247 titles.
BAFTA Games Awards presented winners across 17 categories at the twenty-first ceremony on April 8, 2025. All the nominees were selected from the longlist of 58 games, which was compiled after BAFTA’s 1,300 members reviewed a pool of 247 games, all released between Nov. 25, 2023, and Nov. 15, 2024.
Best Game – Astro Bot
Multiplayer – Helldivers 2
Audio Achievement – Astro Bot
New Intellectual Property – Still Wakes the Deep
Technical Achievement – Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
Family Game – Astro Bot
Game Beyond Entertainment – Tales of Kenzera: ZAU
Animation – Astro Bot
British Game – Thank Goodness You’re Here!
Narrative – Metaphor: ReFantazio
Evolving Game – Vampire Survivors
Performer in a Supporting Role – Karen Dunbar (Still Wakes the Deep)
Artistic Achievement – Neva
Game Design – Astro Bot
Debut Game – Balatro
Music – Helldivers 2
Performer in a Leading Role – Alec Newman (Still Wakes the Deep)
Besides that, Yoko Shimomura, a Japanese composer and pianist, known for composing music scores for such games as Final Fantasy XV, Mario & Luigi, Xenoblade Chronicles, Kingdom Hearts series, Streets of Rage, the Mana series, Super Mario RPG, Live A Live, Radiant Historia, Parasite Eve, Breather of Fire and Street Fighter II was honored with a BAFTA Fellowship, a lifetime achievement award.
BAFTA Games Awards, also known as the British Academy Games Awards, have been presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) since February 2004, marking the ceremony of 2025 a 21st and the fourth in a row hosted at Queen Elizabeth Hall.
It is worth noting that the public-voted poll for the Most Influential Game of All Time brought a lot of confusion and became the most debated nomination ahead of the ceremony.
