Bafta Games Awards 2025 honours Astro Bot with five awards including Best Game
Astro Bot has won the lion’s shares of this year’s trophies at the Bafta Games Awards, with Still Wakes The Deep picking up three.
Astro Bot has won the lion’s shares of this year’s trophies at the Bafta Games Awards, with Still Wakes The Deep picking up three.
Most organisations had their yearly game awards some time ago, with Astro Bot wining Game of the Year at The Game Awards in December – although we named Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth our favourite title of 2024, in our own Top 20 list.
The Bafta Games Awards are always heavily biased towards British developers, while seemingly reticent to acknowledge Asian titles, but this year they didn’t have any choice and Sony’s Astro Bot picked up Best Game, Best Animation, Audio Achievement, Family, and Game Design.
That was the most of any game, but the British made Still Wakes The Deep won three, for New Intellectual Property, Performer in a Leading Role, and Performer in a Supporting Role.
Helldivers 2 won twice for Multiplayer and Best Music, while other winners included Balatro for Debut Game, Metaphor: ReFantazio for Narrative, and Tales of Kenzera: Zau for Game Beyond Entertainment.
Previous Best Game winner Vampire Survivors picked up the Evolving Game award, the otherwise disappointing Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 won for Technical Achievement, and Thank Goodness You’re Here! picked up the British Game award.
However, perhaps the most deserved winner of the night was former Capcom composer Yoko Shimomura, who was responsible for the iconic Street Fighter 2 soundtrack, as well as everything from Super Mario RPG and Final Fantasy 15 to multiple titles in the Kingdom Hearts franchise.
She was awarded a Bafta Fellowship, which puts her alongside such gaming luminaries as Shuhei Yoshida, Hideo Kojima, Tim Schafer, John Carmack, David Braben, Rockstar Games, Gabe Newell, Peter Molyneux, Shigeru Miyamoto, Nolan Bushnell, and Will Wright.
Not to mention Stanley Kubrick, Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench, and Floella Benjamin.
The awards were hosted by comedian Phil Wang and considered titles between November 25, 2023 and November 15, 2024, with some restrictions on eligibility of remakes and DLC.
Yoko Shimomura deserves her Fellowship (Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock) Bafta Games Awards 2025 winnersWinners are indicated in bold
ANIMATIONAstro 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 Games, Studio Gobo/Sony interactive Entertainment
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 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 ACHIEVEMENTAstro 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.
Neva development team – Nomada Studio/Devolver Digital
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 development team – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios
Still Wakes The Deep development team – The Chinese Room/Secret Mode
AUDIO ACHIEVEMENTAnimal Well – 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 GAMEAstro Bot development team – Team Asobi/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Balatro – 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 EPD, Grezzo/Nintendo
Thank Goodness You’re Here! Will Todd, James Carbutt – Coal Supper/Panic
BRITISH GAMEA Highland Song development team – Inkle Ltd
Lego Horizon Adventures development team – Guerilla Games, Studio Gobo/Sony interactive Entertainment
Paper Trail development team – Newfangled Games/Newfangled Games
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 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 GAMEAnimal Well – Billy Basso/Bigmode
Balatro – 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 GAMEDiablo 4 development team – Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment
Final Fantasy 14 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
FAMILYAstro Bot development team – Team Asobi/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Cat Quest 3 – Desmond Wong, Liang Wai, Nursyazana Binte Zainal, The Gentlebros/Kepler Interactive
Lego Horizon Adventures development team – Guerilla Games, 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 Cube/Nintendo
GAME BEYOND ENTERTAINMENTBotany 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 2 development team – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios
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 DESIGNAnimal Well – Billy Basso/Bigmode
Astro Bot development team – Team Asobi/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Balatro – LocalThunk/Playstack
Helldivers 2 development team – Arrowhead Game Studios/Sony Interactive Entertainment
The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom development team – Nintendo EPD, Grezzo/Nintendo
Tactical Breach Wizards – Tom Francis, Steve Lee, John Roberts, Suspicious Developments/Suspicious Developments
MULTIPLAYERCall 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 Games, Studio Gobo/Sony interactive Entertainment
Super Mario Party Jamboree development team – Nintendo Cube/Nintendo
Tekken 8 development team – Bandai Namco Studios/Bandai Namco Entertainment
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 development team – Saber Interactive/Focus Entertainment
MUSICAstro Bot development team – Team Asobi/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Black Myth: Wukong development team – GameScience/GameScience
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth development team – Square Enix/Square Enix
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
NARRATIVEBlack Myth: Wukong development team – GameScience/GameScience
Dragon Age: The Veilguard development team – BioWare/Electronic Arts
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth development team – Square Enix/Square Enix
Metaphor: ReFantazio development team – Studio Zero/Atlus
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 development team – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios
Still Wakes The Deep development team – The Chinese Room/Secret Mode
NEW INTELLECTUAL PROPERTYAnimal Well – Billy Basso/Bigmode
Balatro – LocalThunk/Playstack
Black Myth: Wukong development team – GameScience/GameScience
Metaphor: ReFantazio development team – Studio Zero/Atlus
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 ROLEAlec Newman as Cameron ‘Caz’ McLeary in Still Wakes The Deep – The Chinese Room/Secret Mode
Humberly Gonzalez as Kay Vess in Star Wars Outlaws – Massive Entertainment/Ubisoft
Isabella Inchbald as Indika in Indika – Odd Neter/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 2 – 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 ROLEAbbi Greenland and Helen Goalen as The Furies in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios
Aldis Amah Hamilton as Ástríðr in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 – 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 ACHIEVEMENTAstro 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 2 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
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