God Of War Ragnarök – it took home seven awards at The Game Awards this past December (pic: Sony)
The nominees for this year’s BAFTA Game Awards have been revealed, with God Of War: Ragnarök and Elden Ring once again vying for Best Game.
BAFTA has announced its nominees for this year’s BAFTA Game Awards, which will take place at the end of the month on March 30. 45 games have been nominated across the 17 categories and, unsurprisingly, the likes of God Of War: Ragnarök and Elden Ring have picked up the lion’s share.
The two titles are once again going head-to-head in a number of categories, much like December’s The Game Awards. While it’s obviously too soon to tell who will walk home with the most awards, Sony and Santa Monica Studios can take some pride in knowing that God Of War: Ragnarök has received double the BAFTA nominations that Elden Ring has.
Whereas Elden Ring has seven nominations, God Of War: Ragnarök has 14, which also makes it the most nominated game in the history of the BAFTAs.
Four of those nominations are for the Performer in a Supporting Role category alone, with the only other two games represented being Horizon Forbidden West (another Sony exclusive) and Immortality.
God Of War: Ragnarök is also in the running for the EE Game of the Year, as well as Elden Ring. Although this is the one category where the winner is chosen by the general public.
Even discounting the EE Game of the Year, all but two of Elden Ring’s nominations are seeing it compete against God Of War: Ragnarök, including Best Game.
BAFTA Game Awards 2023 nominees
ANIMATION
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – Infinity Ward/Activision Publishing, Inc.
God Of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Horizon Forbidden West – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga – TT Games/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Sifu – Sloclap/Sloclap & Kepler Interactive
Stray – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT
A Plague Tale: Requiem – Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment
Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
God Of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Immortality – Half Mermaid Productions
Pentiment – Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studio
Tunic – Tunic Team/Finji
AUDIO ACHIEVEMENT
A Plague Tale: Requiem – Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment
God Of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Horizon Forbidden West – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Metal: Hellsinger – The Outsiders/Funcom Oslo AS
Stray – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
Tunic – Tunic Team/Finji
BEST GAME
Cult Of The Lamb – Massive Monster/Devolver Digital
Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
God Of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Marvel Snap – Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse
Stray – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
Vampire Survivors – poncle
BRITISH GAME
Citizen Sleeper – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller
OlliOlli World – Roll7/Private Division
Rollerdrome – Roll7/Private Division
Total War: Warhammer 3 – Creative Assembly/Sega
Two Point Campus – Two Point Studios/Sega
Vampire Survivors – poncle
DEBUT GAME
As Dusk Falls – Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios
The Case Of The Golden Idol – Color Gray Games/Playstack
Stray – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
Trombone Champ – Holy Wow Studios
Tunic – Tunic Team/Finji
Vampire Survivors – poncle
EVOLVING GAME
Apex Legends – Respawn/Electronic Arts
Dreams – Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment
The Elder Scrolls Online – Zenimax Online Studios/Bethesda Softworks
Final Fantasy 14 – Creative Business Unit 3/Square Enix
Forza Horizon 5 – Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios
No Man’s Sky – Hello Games
FAMILY
Disney Dreamlight Valley – Gameloft
Kirby And The Forgotten Land – HAL Laboratory/Nintendo
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga – TT Games/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope – Ubisoft Milan; Ubisoft Paris/Ubisoft
Nintendo Switch Sports – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge – Tribute Games/Dotemu
GAME BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT
Citizen Sleeper – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller
Endling – Extinction Is Forever – Herobeat Studios/HandyGames
Gibbon: Beyond The Trees – Broken Rules/Broken Rules
I Was A Teenage Exocolonist – Northway Games/Finji
Not For Broadcast – NotGames/tinyBuild
We’ll Always Have Paris – Cowleyfornia Studios
GAME DESIGN
Cult Of The Lamb – Massive Monster/Devolver Digital
Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
God Of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Horizon Forbidden West – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Tunic – Tunic Team/Finji
Vampire Survivors – poncle
MULTIPLAYER
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – Infinity Ward/Activision Publishing, Inc.
FIFA 23 – EA Vancouver, EA Romania/EA SPORTS
Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Overwatch 2 – Blizzard Entertainment
Splatoon 3 – Nintendo
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge – Tribute Games/Dotemu
MUSIC
A Plague Tale: Requiem – Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment
Cuphead – The Delicious Last Course – Studio MDHR/Studio MDHR
Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
God Of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Stray – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
Tunic – Tunic Team/Finji
NARRATIVE
A Plague Tale: Requiem – Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment
Citizen Sleeper – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller
God Of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Immortality – Half Mermaid Productions
Pentiment – Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studio
Stray – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
ORIGINAL PROPERTY
Citizen Sleeper – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller
Cult Of The Lamb – Massive Monster/Devolver Digital
Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
Sifu – Sloclap/Sloclap & Kepler Interactive
Stray – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
Vampire Survivors – poncle
PERFORMER IN A LEADING ROLE
Alain Mesa as Alejandro Vargas in Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
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 – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
God Of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Horizon Forbidden West – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Immortality – Half Mermaid Productions
The Last Of Us Part 1 – Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Stray – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
EE GAME OF THE YEAR (voted for by the public)
Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
God Of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Horizon Forbidden West – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Immortality – Half Mermaid Productions
Marvel Snap – Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse
Stray – BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
As a reminder, Elden Ring ultimately won Game of the Year over God Of War: Ragnarök at The Game Awards, so it’ll be interesting to see if the same thing happens at the BAFTAs.
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Surprisingly, Elden Ring doesn’t have the second most amount of nominations at the BAFTAs. Annapurna’s Stray just beats it out with eight nominations in total, nine if you count the EE Game of the Year.
You’ll be able to watch the BAFTA game Awards live on the official BAFTA Twitch channel on March 30 from 6:50pm.
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The nominees for this year’s BAFTA Game Awards have been revealed, with God Of War: Ragnarök and Elden Ring once again vying for Best Game.