BAFTA Games Awards: List of Winners

The BAFTA Games Awards, the UK’s independent arts charity celebrating excellence in games, took place overnight on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in London, UK. Hosted by comedian Phil Wang for the second year running, the biggest names in gaming gathered at the London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.

In a video game year dominated by dark, blood fantasy adventures, it was a cute robot that stole the night at this year’s awards. Sony’s family-friendly platformer Astro Bot emerged victorious in five categories at the 2025 BAFTA video games awards, including best game and game design.

Accepting the award, Astro Bot director Nicolas Doucet paid tribute to the game developers of the past, who paved the way for Sony-owned Team Asobi and other current studios to find success in the modern era.

Even though Astro Bot was the most-crowned video game of the night, The Chinese Room’s impressive Still Wakes the Deep secured three wins, including both performer awards, while Helldivers 2 won two BAFTA’s. Thank Goodness You’re Here! Balatro and Metaphor: ReFantazio were also among the night’s winners.

Actually, the rest of the awards were evenly distributed across a range of Triple A and independent titles. Oil rig thriller Still Wakes the Deep was the next biggest winner of the night with three awards: new intellectual property, performer in a leading role and performer in a supporting role.

Evidently, actors seeking BAFTA-winning roles need look no further than North Sea. The only multiple winner was online shooter Helldivers, which won in multiplayer and music. The night’s most nominated title, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, was victorious in just the one category: Technical Achievement.

There was also a number of surprise triumphs. Hardcore role-playing adventure Metaphor: ReFantazio won in the highly competitive narrative category, while sumptuous side-scrolling platformer Neva claimed artistic achievement and Vampire Survivors swooped in for Evolving game.

The game beyond entertainment award went to Tales of Kenzera: Zau, a magical adventure inspired by the death of creative lead Abubakar’s Salim’s father and based on Bantu mythologies.

BAFTA polled the public to discover that even though games like GTA, World of Warcraft, Tetris, Minecraft, Doom, and Half-Life 2 did make the list, the top as ranked by the number of votes garnered was Sega’s 1999 action-adventure game.

BAFTA recently revealed that the most influential video game of all time, according to the public, is Shenmue, which left the internetto some extent puzzled.

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