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19th BAFTA Game Awards Roundup: Shock For Vampire Survivors As God of War Wins Big

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There was a surprise last month at the 19th BAFTA Game Awards as Vampire Survivors won the Best Game award at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

The London-based indie team, Poncle, behind the minimalistic survival game, looked stunned as journalist Aoife Wilson announced they had won the BAFTA Game Awards Game of the Year trophy. Winning ahead of the likes of Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarök.

Sam McGarry, part of the small development team, said on stage: “The team worked so hard on the game that clearly everyone loves to play.” They had earlier also picked up the Game Design award.

Vampire Survivors is a casual gothic horror-themed roguelike from the mind of Luca Galante. The game was released initially last October on PC before being released for Xbox and Mobile later.

A screenshot of Vampire Survivors winner at the BAFTA game awards
Vampire Survivors Won Best Game at the BAFTA Game Awards

Santa Monica’s God of War team will not be too disappointed, though, as they won six Bafta Game Awards, including Best Performer by Christopher Judge for his wonderful performance as Kratos in Ragnarök.

Judge delivered a moving acceptance speech as he collected his BAFTA Game Awards prize. He said that playing Kratos was a “role of a lifetime”. He pipped an amazing line-up of performers that included God of War co-star Sunny Suljic who voices Atreus.

An Image of Christopher Judge
Christopher Judge Won The Best Leading Performance Award

Laya DeLeon Hayes was awarded the Best Supporting Performer award for her role as Angrboda, also in Ragnarök.

The BAFTA Game Awards saw a total of 45 nominated games across 18 different categories. Legendary Sony PlayStation figurehead Shuhei Yoshida was the BAFTA Fellowship recipient this year.

Elden Ring and Tunic both also picked up two awards each.  Other winners included RollerDrome for best British game, Immortality and Endling.

Image of Best British game winner RollerDrome
RollerDrome won out in the best British Game category

There was a surprise appearance by The Last Of Us’ Bella Ramsey, who came on the big screen as Troy Baker was handing out an award.

The complete list of the BAFTA Game Awards and winners is listed here:

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

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


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


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 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, Duncan Steele – 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

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: REQUIEM 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


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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