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BAFTA Gaming Awards 2023: Kratos Wins Big, but Vampire Survivors Steal the Show

Elden Ring takes "only" two statuettes.

BAFTA Gaming Awards 2023: Kratos Wins Big, but Vampire Survivors Steal the Show
Nacho Requena Molina

Nacho Requena Molina

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We have had a huge surprise this past morning during the celebration of the BAFTA 2023 dedicated to video games. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards have crowned Vampire Survivors as the best game of the year 2023. Yes, above God of War Ragnarok or Elden Ring, which are the ones that are copping all the awards this year.

Although Kratos did not take the top prize, it must be said that he swept the BAFTAs with up to six awards. Elden Ring, on the other hand, won two, with Best Original Idea and one that left everyone a little bit shocked: Best Multiplayer Game.

This is the complete list of winners of the BAFTA Games 2023 (in bold, the winner).

BAFTA 2023 for Best Game of the Year

  • Vampire Survivors (Poncle).
  • Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster / Devolver Digital).
  • Elden Ring (From Software / Bandai Namco Europe).
  • God of War Ragnarok (Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment).
  • Marvel SNAP (Second Dinner Studios / Nuverse).
  • STRAY (BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive).

BAFTA 2023 for Best British Game

  • Rollerdrome (Roll7 / Private Division).
  • Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over the Age / Fellow Traveller).
  • OlliOlli World (Roll7 / Private Division).
  • Total War: Warhammer III (Creative Assembly / SEGA).
  • Two Point Campus (Two Point Studios / SEGA).
  • Vampire Survivors (poncle).

BAFTA 2023 for Best Debut Game

  • Tunic (TUNIC Team/FINJI).
  • As Dusk Falls (IInterior/Night / Xbox Game Studios).
  • The Case of the Golden Idol (Color Gray Games / Playstack).
  • STRAY (BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive).
  • Trombone Champ (Holy Wow Studios/ Holy Wow Studios).
  • Vampire Survivors (poncle).

BAFTA 2023 for Best Design

  • Vampire Survivors (Poncle).
  • Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster / Devolver Digital).
  • Elden Ring (From Software / Bandai Namco Europe).
  • God of War Ragnarok (Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment).
  • Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla / Sony Interactive Entertainment).
  • Tunic (TUNIC Team / FINJI).

BAFTA 2023 for Best Narrative

  • Immortality (Half Mermaid Productions).
  • A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio / Focus Entertainment).
  • Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over the Age / Fellow Traveller).
  • God of War Ragnarok (Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment).
  • Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment / Xbox Game Studio).
  • Stray (BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive).

BAFTA 2023 for Artistic Achievement

  • Tunic (TUNIC Team / FINJI).
  • A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio / Focus Entertainment).
  • Elden Ring (FromSoftware / Bandai Namco Europe).
  • God of War Ragnarok (Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment).
  • Immortality (Half Mermaid Productions).
  • Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment / Xbox Game Studio).

BAFTA 2023 for Highest Technical Achievement

  • Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla / Sony Interactive Entertainment).
  • Elden Ring (From Software / Bandai Namco Europe).
  • God of War Ragnarok (Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment).
  • Immortality (Half Mermaid Productions).
  • The Last of Us Parte I (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment).
  • STRAY (BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive).

BAFTA 2023 for Best Animations

  • God of War Ragnarok (Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment).
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward / Activision Publishing, Inc).
  • 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).

BAFTA 2023 Best Audio

  • God of War Ragnarok (Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment).
  • A Plague Tale: Requiem ( Asobo Studio / Focus Entertainment).
  • Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla / Sony Interactive Entertainment).
  • Metal: Hellsinger (The Outsiders / Funcom Oslo AS).
  • STRAY (BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive).
  • TUNIC (TUNIC Team / FINJI).

BAFTA 2023 for Best Music

  • God of War Ragnarok (Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment).
  • A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio / Focus Entertainment).
  • Cuphead – The Delicious Last Course (Studio MDHR).
  • Elden Ring (From Software / Bandai Namco Europe).
  • STRAY (BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive).
  • TUNIC (TUNIC Team / FINJI).

BAFTA 2023 to Game that Transcends Entertainment

  • Endling: Extinction is Forever (Herobeat Studios / HandyGames).
  • Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over the Age / Fellow Traveller).
  • Gibbon: Beyond the Trees (Broken Rules).
  • I was a teenage exocolonist (Northway Games / FINJI).
  • Not for Broadcast (NotGames / tinyBuild).
  • We’ll always have Paris (Cowleyfornia Studios).

BAFTA 2023 for Best Family Game

  • Kirby and the Forgotten Land (HAL Laboratory / Nintendo).
  • Disney Dreamlight Valley (Gameloft).
  • 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).

BAFTA 2023 for Best Multiplayer

  • Elden Ring (From Software / Bandai Namco Europe).
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward / Activision Publishing, Inc).
  • EA Sports FIFA 23 (EA Vancouver, EA Romania / EA SPORTS).
  • Overwatch 2 (Blizzard Entertainment).
  • Splatoon 3 (Nintendo).
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games / Dotemu).

BAFTA 2023 to Further Evolution

  • Final Fantasy XIV Online (Unit III / Square Enix).
  • Apex Legends (Respawn / Electronic Arts).
  • Dreams (Media Molecule / Sony Interactive Entertainment).
  • The Elder Scrolls Online (Zenimax Online Studios / Bethesda Softworks).
  • Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games / Xbox Game Studios).
  • No Man’s Sky (Hello Games).

BAFTA 2023 for Best Leading Role

  • Christopher Judge (Kratos in Kratos in God of War Ragnarök).
  • Alain Mesa (Alejandro Vargas in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II).
  • Charlotte McBurney (Amicia in Amicia in A Plague Tale: Requiem).
  • Manon Gage (Marissa Marcel in Immortality).
  • Siobhan Williams (Laura in The Quarry).
  • Sunny Suljic (Atreus in God of War Ragnarök).

BAFTA 2023 for Best Supporting Role

  • Laya Deleon Hayes (Angrboda in God of War Ragnarök).
  • Adam J. Harrington (Sindri in God of War Ragnarök).
  • Alison Jaye (Alva in Horizon Forbidden West).
  • Charlotta Mohlin (The One in Immortality).
  • Danielle Bisutti (Freya in God of War Ragnarök).
  • Ryan Hurst (Thor in God of War Ragnarök).
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