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BAFTA Games Awards 2023: Full list of winners as God of War Ragnarök sweeps awards

The 2023 BAFTA Games Awards were held on Thursday (March 30) at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on the Southbank. Hosted by Julia Hardy and Inel Tomlinson, the 19th annual Games Awards recognise the most outstanding achievements in gaming from the past year.

Action-adventure sequel God of War Ragnarök was the big winner on the night, taking home five awards from a record breaking 14 nominations, including performance honors and the public voted Game of the Year. Former Stargate SG-1 actor Christopher Judge earned the Best Performance award for his turn as Norse God killer Kratos in the acclaimed video game.

Fantasy game Elden Ring – created in collaboration with Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin – won two awards for Best Original Property and Best Multiplayer Game. But the big shock of the night came as indie shooter Vampire Survivors beat the blockbusters to bag the top prize, the BAFTA for Best Game.

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Here is the full list of winners from the BAFTA Games Awards 2023:

Animation

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II – Mark Grigsby, Bruce Ferris, Khoa Le – Infinity Ward/Activision Publishing, Inc

God of War Ragnarök – Bruno Velazquez, Erica Pinto, Mehdi Yssef – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment

Horizon Forbidden West Development Team – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Development Team – TT Games/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Sifu Development Team – Sloclap/Sloclap & Kepler Interactive

Stray Jophray Mikolajczyk, Jean-Marie Vouillon, Simon Jacquart – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive

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Artistic Achievement

Elden Ring Development Team – FromSoftware/BANDAI Namco Europe

God of War Ragnarök Raf Grassetti, Dan McKim, Eric Valdes – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment

Immortality Doug Potts, Stephanie Reese, Kerry Hennessy – Half Mermaid Productions/Half Mermaid Productions

Pentiment Hannah Kennedy, Soojin Paek – Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios

A Plague Tale: Requiem Development Team – Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment

Tunic Development Team – Tunic Team/FINJI

The God of War Ragnarök cast and crew at the BAFTA Games Awards (Suzan Moore/PA Wire/PA Images)

Audio Achievement

God of War Ragnarök Jodie Kupsco, Michael Kent, Sean LaValle – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment

Horizon Forbidden West Development Team – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment

Metal: Hellsinger Elvira Björkman, Nicklas Hjertberg – The Outsiders/Funcom Oslo AS

A Plague Tale: Requiem Development Team – Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment

Stray Development Team – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive

Tunic Development Team – Tunic Team/FINJI

Best Game

Cult of the Lamb Development Team – Massive Monster/Devolver Digital

Elden Ring Development Team – FromSoftware/BANDAI Namco Europe

God of War Ragnarök Eric Williams, Chad Cox, Yumi Yang – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment

Marvel Snap Development Team – Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse

Stray Development Team – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive

Vampire Survivors Development Team – poncle/poncle

British Game

Citizen Sleeper Gareth Damian Martin, Guillaume Singelin, Amos Roddy – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller

OlliOlli World Development Team – Roll7/Private Division

Rollerdrome Development Team Roll7/Private Division

Total War: Warhammer III Development Team – Creative Assembly/SEGA

Two Point Campus Development Team – Two Point Studios/SEGA

Vampire Survivors Development Team – poncle/poncle

The development team from Poncle Studio accept the Best Game Award for Vampire Survivors (Stuart Wilson/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA)

Debut Game

As Dusk Falls Caroline Marchal, Charu Desodt – INTERIOR/NIGHT/Xbox Game Studios

The Case of the Golden Idol Andrejs Kļaviņš, Ernests Kļaviņš - Color Gray Games/Playstack

Stray Development Team – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive

Trombone Champ Development Team – Holy Wow Studios/ Holy Wow Studios

Tunic Development Team – Tunic Team/FINJI

Vampire Survivors Development Team – poncle/poncle

Evolving Game

Apex Legends Development Team – Respawn/Electronic Arts

Dreams Development Team – Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment

The Elder Scrolls Online Development Team – ZeniMax Online Studios/Bethesda Softworks

FINAL FANTASY XIV ONLINE Final Fantasy XIV Online Development Team – Creative Business Unit III/Square Enix

Forza Horizon 5 Development Team – Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios

No Man’s Sky Development Team – Hello Games/Hello Games

Family

Disney Dreamlight Valley DISNEY DREAMLIGHT VALLEY Development Team – Gameloft/Gameloft

Kirby and the Forgotten Land Development Team – HAL Laboratory/Nintendo

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Development Team – TT Games/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope Development Team – Ubisoft Milan; Ubisoft Paris/Ubisoft

Nintendo Switch Sports Development Team – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge Development Team – Tribute Games/Dotemu

Game Beyond Entertainment

Citizen Sleeper Gareth Damian Martin, Guillaume Singelin, Amos Roddy - Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller

Endling – Extinction is Forever Development Team - Herobeat Studios/HandyGames

Gibbon: Beyod the Trees Development Team - Broken Rules/Broken Rules

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist Development Team - Northway Games/FINJI

Not for Broadcast Development Team – NotGames/tinyBuild

We'll Always Have Paris Marina Sciberras, Duncan Steele - Cowleyfornia Studios/Cowleyfornia Studios

The Last of Us star Troy Baker was in attendance at the BAFTA Games Awards (Scott Garfitt/BAFTA via Getty Images)

Game Design

Cult of the Lamb Development Team – Massive Monster/Devolver Digital

Elden Ring Development Team – FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe

God of War Ragnarök Jason McDonald, Andrew Chrysafidis, Luis Sanchez – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment

Horizon Forbidden West Development Team – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment

Tunic Development Team – Tunic Team/FINJI

Vampire Survivors Development Team – poncle/poncle

Multiplayer

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Development Team – Infinity WardActivision Publishing, Inc.

EA Sports FIFA 23 Development Team – EA Vancouver, EA Romania/EA SPORTS

Elden Ring Development Team – FromSoftware/BANDAI Namco Europe

Overwatch 2 Development Team – Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment

Splatoon 3 Development Team – Nintendo/Nintendo

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge Development Team – Tribute Games/Dotemu

Music

Cuphead – The Delicious Last Course Kristofer Maddigan – Studio MDHR/Studio MDHR

Elden Ring Development Team – FromSoftware/BANDAI Namco Europe

God of War Ragnarök Bear McCreary, Keith Leary, Peter Scaturro – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment

A Plague Tale: Requiem Olivier Derivière – Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment

Stray Development Team – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive

Tunic Lifeformed, Janice Kwan – Tunic Team/FINJI

Narrative

Citizen Sleeper Gareth Damian Martin – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller

God of War Ragnarök Matt Sophos, Richard Gaubert – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment

Immortality Sam Barlow, Amelia Gray, Allan Scott – Half Mermaid Productions/Half Mermaid Productions

Pentiment Josh Sawyer, Kate Dollarhyde, Zoe Franznick – Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studio

A Plague Tale: Reqium Writing Team – Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment

Stray Writing Team – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive

Original Property

Citizen Sleeper Gareth Damian Martin, Guillaume Singelin, Amos Roddy – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller

Cult of the Lamb Development Team – Massive Monster/Devolver Digital

Elden Ring Development Team – FromSoftware/BANDAI Namco Europe

Sifu Development Team – Sloclap/Sloclap & Kepler Interactive

Stray Development Team – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive

Vampire Survivors Development Team – poncle/poncle

Performer in a Leading Role

Alain Mesa as Alejandro Vargas in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II

Charlotte McBurney as Amicia de Rune in A Plague Tale: Requiem

Christopher Judge as Kratos in God of War Ragnarök

Manon Gage as Marissa Marcel in Immortality

Siobhan Williams as Laura in The Quarry

Sunny Suljic as Atreus in God of War Ragnarök

Christopher Judge earned the Performer in a Leading Role Award for his performance as Kratos in God of War Ragnarök (Shane Anthony Sinclair/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA)

Performer in a Supporting Role

Adam J. Harrington as Sindri in God of War Ragnarök

Alison Jaye as Alva in Horizon Forbidden West

Charlotta Mohlin as The One in Immortality

Danielle Bisutti as Freya in God of War Ragnarök

Laya Deleon Hayes as Angrboða in God of War Ragnarök

Ryan Hurst as Thor in God of War Ragnarök

Technical Achievement

Elden Ring Development Team – FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe

God of War Ragnarök Josh Hobson, Jon Burke – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment

Horizon Forbidden West Development Team – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment

Immortality Connor Carson, Lizi Attwood, Dylan Nelkin – Half Mermaid Productions/Half Mermaid Productions

The Last of Us Part I Development Team – Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment

Stray Development Team – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive

EE Game of the Year (voted for by the public)

Elden Ring FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe

God of War Ragnarök Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment

Horizon Forbidden West Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment

Immortality Half Mermaid Productions/Half Mermaid Productions

Marvel Snap Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse

Stray BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive

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