Astro Bot wins big at the BAFTA Game Awards 2025
Astro Bot was the big winner at the BAFTA Game Awards 2025, picking up five awards including Best Game.
The acclaimed PS5 platformer by Team ASOBI also picked up Audio Achievement, Animation, Family and Game Design awards on the night.
Still Wakes The Deep from British studio The Chinese Room also won three awards, with two going to actors Alec Newman and Karen Dunbar for their performances in the horror game set on an oil rig.
Last year’s smash hit co-op game Helldivers 2 picked up two awards, meanwhile, for Multiplayer and Music.
Otherwise, the awards were split across a fairly eclectic spread of games, with card roguelike Balatro, platformer Neva and narrative action game Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II among the titles that were recognised.
To be eligible for the 21st BAFTA Game Awards, games had to be released between November 25, 2023 and November 15, 2024.
As previously announced, the BAFTA Fellowship was presented to pianist and composer Yoko Shimomura, renowned for her work on the Kingdom Hearts, Xenoblade and Final Fantasy series, among many others.
Here’s the full list of winners:
- Animation: Astro Bot (Team ASOBI)
- Artistic Achievement: Neva (Nomada Studio)
- Audio Achievement: Astro Bot (Team ASOBI)
- Best Game: Astro Bot (Team ASOBI)
- British Game: Thank Goodness You’re Here! (Coal Supper)
- Debut Game: Balatro (LocalThunk)
- Evolving Games: Vampire Survivors (poncle)
- Family: Astro Bot (Team ASOBI)
- Fellowship: Yoko Shimomura
- Game Beyond Entertainment: Tales of Kenzera: ZAU
- Game Design: Astro Bot (Team ASOBI)
- Multiplayer: Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Game Studios)
- Music: Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Game Studios)
- Narrative: Metaphor ReFantazio (Studio Zero)
- New Intellectual Property: Still Wakes The Deep (The Chinese Room)
- Performer in a Leading Role: Alec Newman (Still Wakes The Deep)
- Performer in a Supporting Role: Karen Dunbar (Still Wakes The Deep)
- Technical Achievement: Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II (Ninja Theory)
