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Bafta Game Awards 2021 – full list of winners reveals what YOU should be playing on PS5, Xbox and more
BRILLIANT games and game-makers were celebrated last night at the annual Bafta Game Awards.
We’ve rounded up the full list of winners so you know what you should be playing next.
Hades is the Best Game according to Bafta[/caption]
Best game went to Hades, a rogue like action game on PC, Mac and the Switch.
You’re playing as the son of Hades (Zagreus) who is trying to leave the Underworld and reach Mount Olympus.
The best British game was Sackboy: A Big Adventure, which is a bit hit on the PS5.
And the EE Game of the Year, which was voted for by the public, was The Last of Us Part II.
The Last of Us Part II was the public’s big winner[/caption]
Here’s the full list of winners plus nominees…
ANIMATION
Winner – THE LAST OF US PART II – Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
DOOM ETERNAL – id Software/ Bethesda Softworks
FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE – Square Enix/Square Enix
MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
ORI AND THE WILL OF THE WISPS – Moon Studios/Xbox Game Studios
SPIRITFARER -Thunder Lotus/Kowloon Nights
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT
Winner – HADES Jen Zee – Supergiant Games/Supergiant Games
CYBERPUNK 2077 – CD PROJEKT RED/CD PROJEKT RED
DREAMS – Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
GHOST OF TSUSHIMA Jason Connell, Joanna Wang, Ian Jun Wei Chiew – Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
HALF-LIFE: ALYX – Valve/Valve
THE LAST OF US PART II – Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
AUDIO ACHIEVEMENT
Winner – GHOST OF TSUSHIMA Rev. Dr. Bradley D. Meyer – Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
ASTRO’S PLAYROOM – Team ASOBI/Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
HADES Darren Korb – Supergiant Games/Supergiant Games
HALF-LIFE: ALYX – Valve/Valve
THE LAST OF US PART II – Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
BEST GAME
Winner – HADES – Supergiant Games/Supergiant Games
ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
GHOST OF TSUSHIMA Brian Fleming, Chris Zimmerman – Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
HALF-LIFE: ALYX –Valve/Valve
THE LAST OF US PART II – Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
Sackboy: A Big Adventure won the British Game award[/caption]
BRITISH GAME
Winner – SACKBOY: A BIG ADVENTURE Ned Waterhouse, Jess Gaskell, Pete Smith – Sumo Digital Sheffield/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
DREAMS – Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
F1 2020 – Codemasters/Codemasters
FALL GUYS – Mediatonic/Devolver Digital
THE LAST CAMPFIRE – Hello Games/Hello Games
RÖKI – Polygon Treehouse/United Label
DEBUT GAME
Winner – CARRION -Phobia Game Studio/Devolver Digital
AIRBORNE KINGDOM – The Wandering Band/The Wandering Band
CALL OF THE SEA Tatiana Delgado, Manuel Fernandez – Out of the Blue/Raw Fury
FACTORIO -Wube Software/Wube Software
THE FALCONEER – Tomas Sala/ Wired Productions
RÖKI Development Team – Polygon Treehouse/United Label
EVOLVING GAME
Winner – SEA OF THIEVES – Rare Ltd/Xbox Game Studios
DESTINY 2: BEYOND LIGHT – Bungie/Bungie
DREAMS – Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
FALL GUYS – Mediatonic/Devolver Digital
FORTNITE – Epic Games/Epic Games
NO MAN’S SKY – Hello Games/Hello Games
FAMILY
Winner – SACKBOY: A BIG ADVENTURE Joel Smith, Cesar Bittar, Pete Smith – Sumo Digital Sheffield/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
ASTRO’S PLAYROOM – Team ASOBI/Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
DREAMS Development Team – Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
FALL GUYS – Mediatonic/Devolver Digital
MINECRAFT DUNGEONS – Mojang Studios, Double Eleven Limited
GAME BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT
Winner – ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
BEFORE I FORGET – 3-Fold Games/3-Fold Games
DREAMS – Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
THE LAST OF US PART II -Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
SPIRITFARER – Thunder Lotus/Kowloon Nights
TELL ME WHY – DONTNOD Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios
GAME DESIGN
Winner – HADES – Supergiant Games/Supergiant Games
ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
ASTRO’S PLAYROOM – Team ASOBI/Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
GHOST OF TSUSHIMA -Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
HALF-LIFE: ALYX –Valve/Valve
THE LAST OF US PART II -Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
MULTIPLAYER
Winner – ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS Development Team – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
DEEP ROCK GALACTIC – Ghost Ship Games/Coffee Stain Publishing
FALL GUYS –Mediatonic/Devolver Digital
GHOST OF TSUSHIMA Darren Bridges, Matt Goldhaber – Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
SACKBOY: A BIG ADVENTURE Jack Houghton, Tom Sampson, Jason Stewart – Sumo Digital Sheffield/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
VALORANT – Riot Games/Riot Games
MUSIC
Winner – MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES John Paesano, Scott Hanau, Alex Hackford – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
GHOST OF TSUSHIMA Ilan Eshkeri, Shigeru Umebayashi, Peter Scaturro – Sucker Punch Productions/ Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
HADES Darren Korb – Supergiant Games/Supergiant Games
THE LAST OF US PART II Gustavo Santaolalla, Mac Quayle, Scott Hanau – Naughty Dog/ Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
ORI AND THE WILL OF THE WISPS Gareth Coker – Moon Studios/Xbox Game Studios
SACKBOY: A BIG ADVENTURE Jay Waters, Joe Thwaites, Joanna Skorupa – Sumo Digital Sheffield/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
NARRATIVE
Winner – HADES Greg Kasavin – Supergiant Games/Supergiant Games
ASSASSIN’S CREED VALHALLA Writing Team – Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft
CYBERPUNK 2077 Writing Team – CD PROJEKT RED/CD PROJEKT RED
GHOST OF TSUSHIMA Nate Fox, Ian Ryan – Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO: TV EDITION Writing Team – Cardboard Computer/Annapurna Interactive
MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES Writing Team – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
ORIGINAL PROPERTY
Winner – KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO: TV EDITION Development Team -Cardboard Computer/Annapurna Interactive
CARRION -Phobia Game Studio/Devolver Digital
FALL GUYS –Mediatonic/Devolver Digital
GHOST OF TSUSHIMA – Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
HADES – Supergiant Games/Supergiant Games
SPIRITFARER – Thunder Lotus/Kowloon Nights
PERFORMER IN A LEADING ROLE
Winner – LAURA BAILEY as Abby in The Last of Us Part II
ASHLEY JOHNSON as Ellie in The Last of Us Part II
CHERAMI LEIGH as Female V in Cyberpunk 2077
CODY CHRISTIAN as Cloud Strife in Final Fantasy VII Remake
DAISUKE TSUJI as Jin Sakai in Ghost of Tsushima
NADJI JETER as Miles Morales in Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
PERFORMER IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Winner – LOGAN CUNNINGHAM as Hades, Achilles, Poseidon, Asterius, Charon, and the Storyteller in Hades
CARLA TASSARA as Judy Alvarez in CYBERPUNK 2077
JEFFREY PIERCE as Tommy in The Last of Us Part II
PATRICK GALLAGHER as Khotun Khan in Ghost of Tsushima
SHANNON WOODWARD as Dina in The Last of Us Part II
TROY BAKER as Joel in The Last of Us Part II
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
Winner – DREAMS – Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
DEMON’S SOULS – SIE Japan Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
DOOM ETERNAL – id Software/Bethesda Softworks
MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR Sebastian Wloch, Duncan Lawler, Pavel Kuksa – Asobo Studio/ Xbox Game Studios
THE LAST OF US PART II – Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
EE GAME OF THE YEAR (public vote)
Winner – THE LAST OF US PART II Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
CALL OF DUTY: WARZONE Raven Software, Infinity Ward/Activision
GHOST OF TSUSHIMA Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
HADES Supergiant Games/Supergiant Games
VALORANT Riot Games/Riot Games
What’s your favourite game from the last year? Let us know in the comments!
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