BAFTA Games Awards 2022: All the winners

In addition to The Game Awards at the end of the year, there are other more excellent events in the video game industry. And is that the eighteenth BAFTA Games Awards 2022 gala took place this weekend, a gala organized by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (better known as BAFTA) in which video game culture is the main protagonist, rewarding excellence in this sector as well as the most recent titles released in the previous year.

Returnal was given the coveted Game of the Year (GOTY) award at a ceremony held at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, with partial attendance without an audience, limited solely to the winners and nominees themselves. With this single honor, he was able to accumulate up to four awards, making him unquestionably the night's top winner.

However, more prizes were announced during the evening, displaying both AAA projects from huge corporations and some truly unique independent proposals. So, here is a complete list of the winners and nominations for each of the award-winning categories at the BAFTA Games Awards 2022:

Best Game:

Returnal (Housemarque/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Deathloop (Arkane Lyon/Bethesda Softworks)

Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)

Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games/Devolver Digital)

It Takes 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 Takes 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)

Best artistic section:

• The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur/Annapurna Interactive)
• It Takes 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)

Best audio:

• Returnal (Housemarque/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur/Annapurna Interactive)
• Call Of Duty: Vanguard (Sledgehammer Games/Activision Blizzard)
• Death loop (Arkane Lyon/Bethesda Softworks)
• Halo Infinite (343 Industries/Xbox Game Studios)
• Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos-Montréal/Square Enix)

Best British game:

• Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)
• Alba: A Wildlife Adventure (ustwo games/ustwo games, Plug In Digital)
• Death’s Door (Acid Nerve/Devolver Digital)
• Fights in Tight Spaces (Ground Shatter/Mode7)
• Overboard! (Jon Ingold, Tom Kail, Joseph Humfrey – inkle/ inkle)
• Sable (Shedworks/Raw Fury)

Best debut game:

• TOEM (Something We Made/ Something We Made)
• The Artful Escape (Beethoven & Dinosaur/Annapurna Interactive)
• Eastward (Pixpil/Chucklefish)
• The Forgotten City (Nick Pearce, Alexander Goss, John Eyre – Modern Storyteller/Dear Villagers)
• Genesis Noir (Evan Anthony, Jeremy Abel – Feral Cat Den/Fellow Traveller)
• Maquette (Graceful Decay/Annapurna Interactive)

Best evolving game:

• No Man’s Sky (Hello Games/Hello Games)
• Among Us (Innersloth/Innersloth)
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
• Apex Legends (Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts)
• Disco Elysium – THE FINAL CUT (ZA/UM/ZA/UM)
• Fortnite (Epic Games/Epic Games, People Can Fly)

Best family game:

• Chicory: A Colorful Tale (Greg Lobanov, A Shell in the Pit, Madeline Berger, Alexis Dean-Jones, Lena Raine/FINJI)
• Alba: A Wildlife Adventure (ustwo games/ustwo 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)

Best game beyond entertainment:

• Before Your Eyes (GoodbyeWorld Games/Skybound Games)
• Alba: A Wildlife Adventure (ustwo games/ustwo games/Plug In Digital)
• Chicory: A Colorful Tale (Greg Lobanov, A Shell in the Pit, Madeline Berger, Alexis Dean-Jones, Lena Raine/FINJI)
• Game Builder Garage (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
• It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts)
• Psychonauts 2 (Double Fine Productions/Xbox Game Studios)

Best game design:

• Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games/Devolver Digital)
• Deathloop (Arkane Lyon/Bethesda Softworks)
• Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)
• It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts)
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Returnal (Housemarque/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best multiplayer:

• It Takes 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:

• Returnal (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 narrative:

• Unpacking (Wren Brier, Tim Dawson, Annie VanderMeer – Witch Beam/Humble Games)
• It Takes 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 Takes 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)

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)

Best game voted by the public:

• Unpacking (Witch Beam/Humble Games)
• Chicory: A Colorful Take (Greg Lobanov, A Shell in the Pit, Madeline Berger, Alexis Dean-Jones, Lena Raine/FINJI)
• Dathloop (Arkane Lyon/Bethesda Softworks)
• The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller/Dear Villagers)
• It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts)
• Metroid Dread (Nintendo & MercurySteam, Nintendo)