Indie Games Win Big at This Year’s BAFTA Games Awards Ceremony

The global situation may have brought the physical ceremony to a halt, but the 2020 BAFTA Games Awards continued with a digital broadcast last night. Control and Death Stranding were the former with the most nominations – in fact, Remedy’s sci-fi thriller broke records with 12 nods. However, we hope you haven’t put any money on them; both matches came away with a single trophy each. It looks like it’s the year of the Indies, with awards split between some of 2019’s smaller and better titles.

The famed Outer Wilds came out on top, winning three categories, including the Sacred Best Game award. Disco Elysium, slated for release on PlayStation 4 this year, also picked up three trophies, including Best Music and Best Narrative. Other indie games were also winners: Untitled Goose Game won Family, Sayonara Wild Hearts won the Artistic Achievement award, and the British Game award went to Observation.

In case you were wondering, Death Stranding got the BAFTA for Technical Achievement, while Control’s award was for Martti Suosalo’s performance as Ahti the Janitor. It should be noted that Hideo Kojima also received the BAFTA scholarship award, placing him alongside the best designers in the industry. Take a look at the full list below – winners are highlighted with bold text.

Animation

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
• Control
• Death Stranding
• Luigi’s Mansion 3
• Sayonara Wild Hearts
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

artistic achievement

• concrete engineering
• Control
• Death Stranding
• Disco Elysium
• Knights and bikes
• Sayonara Wild Hearts

audio

• Ape Out
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
• Control
• Death Stranding
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
• Untitled Game of Goose

best game

• Control
• Disco Elysium
• Luigi’s Mansion 3
• Outer Wilds
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
• Untitled Game of Goose

British game

• DiRT Rally 2.0
• vault of heaven
• Knights and bikes
• Observation
• Planet Zoo
• Total War: Three Kingdoms

First game

• Ape Out
• Death Stranding
• Disco Elysium
• Katana Zero
• Knights and bikes
• garden collector

Scalable game

• Apex Legends
• Destiny 2
• Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers
• Fortnite
• No Man’s Sky: Beyond
• Path of exile

Family

• concrete engineering
• Knights and bikes
• Luigi’s Mansion 3
• Untitled Game of Goose
• Vacation Simulator
• Wattham

Game Beyond Entertainment

• Civilization VI: Gathering Storm
• Death Stranding
• kind words
• life is strange 2
• Neo Cab
• Ring Fit Adventure

The design of the game

• Baba is you
• Control
• Disco Elysium
• Outer Wilds
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
• Wattham

Multiplayer

• Apex Legends
• Borderlands 3
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
• Luigi’s Mansion 3
• Tick ​​Tock: A Tale for Two
• Tom Clancy’s The Division 2

The music

• Control
• Death Stranding
• Disco Elysium
• Outer Wilds
• The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
• Wattham

Story

• Control
• Disco Elysium
• life is strange 2
• Outer Wilds
• The Outer Worlds
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Original property

• Baba is you
• Control
• Death Stranding
• Disco Elysium
• Outer Wilds
• Untitled Game of Goose

Performer in a leading role

• Laura Bailey as Kait Diaz in Gears 5
• Courtney Hope as Jesse Faden in command
• Logan Marshall-Green as David in Telling Lies
• Gonzalo Martin as Sean Diaz in Life Is Strange 2
• Barry Sloane as Captain Price in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
• Norman Reedus as Sam in Death Stranding

Performer in a supporting role

• Jolene Andersen as Karen Reynolds in Life is Strange 2
• Troy Baker as Higgs in Death Stranding
• Sarah Bartholomew as Cassidy (Lucy Rose Jones) in Life is Strange 2
• Ayisha Issa as Fliss in The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
• Léa Seydoux as fragile as the failure of death
• Martti Suosalo as Ahti the janitor in control

technical achievement

• A Plague Tale: Innocence
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
• Control
• Death Stranding
• Metro Exodus
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

EE Mobile Game of the Year (voted by the public)

• Assemble with care
• Call of Duty: Mobile
• dead man’s phone
• Pokemon GO
• tangle tower
• What is Golf?

Are you happy with the winners of this year’s BAFTA Games Awards? Which would you change and which are the good ones? Have your say in the comments below.