Today, the nominees for the 2023 BAFTA Game Awards have been revealed. BAFTA said “the nominations announced today highlight a broad range of British-made and international games, from the biggest studios to small independent development teams. Celebrating the art and craft of games and the people who make them, the BAFTA Games Awards bring the very best work of 2022 to wider public attention and inspire game-makers of the future. God of War Ragnarok is the most nominated game since the BAFTA Game Awards began in 2004 with 14. Stray has 8 nominations, followed by Elden Ring with 7. A Plague Tale: Requiem, Horizon Forbidden West, Immortality, Tunic, and Vampire Hunters each scored 5 nominations. Citizen Sleeper had 4. A total of 45 games received nominations. The 2023 BAFTA Game Awards will take place on Thursday, March 30 exclusively on BAFTA’s Twitch channel.

Congratulations to all of this year’s nominees! 🎉 Discover the full list below and don’t forget to tune in live on Twitch on 30 March to find out the winners 👊 #BAFTAGamesAwards

— BAFTA Games (@BAFTAGames) March 2, 2023

Congratulations to all our nominees, and to the thousands of talented craftspeople behind today’s nominated games,” Jane Millichip, CEO of BAFTA said. “This year’s BAFTA Games Awards recognise extraordinary storytelling, craft and performance. It’s a real privilege, not only to celebrate the breadth and depth of talent in the games industry, but also to bring their work to wider the public. I can’t wait to celebrate the achievements of this vibrant industry at the ceremony on 30 March.”

Tara Saunders, Chair of BAFTA’s Games Committee, said: “It’s fantastic to see such a broad and diverse range of games celebrated in this year’s BAFTA Games Awards nominations – with indie titles, mobile games and triple-A blockbusters all represented and competing across multiple categories. It is heartening to see so many games, especially those in Game Beyond Entertainment category, that tackle complex issues and discuss the world around through engaging and enriching stories in ways only possible within our medium. I firmly believe that all these nominees represent the very best in their craft and, whether deep and meaningful or just good honest fun, show us just how essential games are in our lives, culture and society.”

The full list of nominees includes:

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

ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT

A PLAGUE TALE: REQUIEM Development Team – Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment

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 Studio

TUNIC Development Team – TUNIC Team/FINJI

AUDIO ACHIEVEMENT

A PLAGUE TALE: REQUIEM Development Team – Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment

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

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

DEBUT GAME

AS DUSK FALLS Caroline Marchal, Charu Desodt – INTERIOR/NIGHT/Xbox Game Studios

THE CASE OF THE GOLDEN IDOL Andrejs Klavins, Ernests Klavins – 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 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 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: BEYOND 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 – Cowleyfornia Studios/Cowleyfornia Studios

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

A PLAGUE TALE: REQUIEM Olivier Derivière – Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment

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

STRAY Development Team -BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive

TUNIC Development Team – TUNIC Team/FINJI

NARRATIVE

A PLAGUE TALE: REQUIEM Writing Team – Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment

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

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 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

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 Angrboda 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