No prizes for guessing what won Best Game at Bafta 2026 Games Awards

The last major video games award event of the season has honoured narrative game Dispatch with three awards, but it didn’t win Best Game.

At this point, the only possible surprise that could have come from the BAFTA 2026 Games Awards is if Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 hadn’t dominated the night.

But while BAFTA has had some very dubious winners in the past, not even they were contrary enough not to award it Best Game, as well as Debut Game for developer Sandfall Interactive, and Performer in a Leading Role for Jennifer English as Maelle.

Expedition 33 has won Best Game in virtually every award event and top 10 of the year list, including our own, so the win is definitely deserved, even if the recognition is a bit redundant at this point.

The Telltale Games style superhero adventure Dispatch also picked up three awards, for Animation, Audio Achievement, and Performer in a Supporting Role for Jeffrey Wright as Chase.

BAFTA always favours narrative games over other genres, and has a tendency to ignore Japanese games, so while Ghost Of Yōtei did pick up two awards, for Music and Technical Achievement, it was made in the US.

Other winners included Rebellion’s Atomfall for British Game, Death Stranding 2: On The Beach for Artistic Achievement, and Blue Prince for Game Design.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 won Narrative and Arc Raiders won the Multiplayer award.

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The most controversial award of the night had already been announced in advance, with the BAFTA Fellowship going to Supercell CEO and co-founder Ilkka Paananen, who is not a creative.

Supercell is best known for mobile games like Clash Of Clans (which is currently running a promotion for a foot fetish cosmetic pack).

According to BAFTA, the Fellowship is awarded to those, who ‘have driven innovation, creativity, and positive change in the screen arts over the course of their career.’ Previous winners include Shigeru Miyamoto and Will Wright.

Bafta 2026 Games Awards full list of winners

ANIMATION
Battlefield 6
Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
Dispatch – WINNER
Ghost Of Yōtei
Hades 2
Hollow Knight: Silksong
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Death Stranding 2: On The Beach – WINNER
Dispatch
Ghost Of Yōtei
Hollow Knight: Silksong
South Of Midnight
AUDIO ACHIEVEMENT
Arc Raiders
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
Dispatch – WINNER
Ghost Of Yōtei
Indiana Jones And The Great Circle
BEST GAME
Arc Raiders
Blue Prince
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – WINNER
Dispatch
Ghost Of Yōtei
Indiana Jones And The Great Circle
BRITISH GAME
Atomfall – WINNER
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Mafia: The Old Country
Monument Valley 3
Powerwash Simulator 2
Two Point Museum
DEBUT GAME
Blue Prince
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – WINNER
Consume Me
Despelote
Dispatch
The Midnight Walk
EVOLVING GAME
Fallout 76
Helldivers 2
Hitman World Of Assassination
No Man’s Sky – WINNER
Vampire Survivors
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
FAMILY
Donkey Kong Bananza
Is This Seat Taken?
Lego Party!

– WINNER
Mario Kart World
Powerwash Simulator 2
Two Point Museum
GAME BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT
The Alters
And Roger
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Consume Me
Despelote – WINNER
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

2: Heart Of Chornobyl
GAME DESIGN
Ball x Pit
Blue Prince – WINNER
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Ghost Of Yōtei
Hades 2
Split Fiction
MULTIPLAYER
Arc Raiders – WINNER
Dune: Awakening
Elden Ring Nightreign
Lego Party!
Peak
Split Fiction
MUSIC
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
Dispatch
Ghost Of Yōtei – WINNER
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Indiana Jones And The Great Circle
NARRATIVE
The Alters
Blue Prince
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
Indiana Jones And The Great Circle
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 – WINNER
NEW INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The Alters
Arc Raiders
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Dispatch
South Of Midnight – WINNER
Split Fiction
PERFORMER IN A LEADING ROLE
Aaron Paul as Robert Robertson in Dispatch
Ben Starr as Verso in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Erika Ishii as Atsu in Ghost Of Yōtei
Jennifer English as Maelle in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – WINNER
Tom McKay as Henry Of Skalitz in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
Troy Baker as Indiana Jones In Indiana Jones And The Great Circle
PERFORMER IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Alix Wilton Regan as Lea Florence Monad in Lies Of P: Overture
Charlie Cox as Gustave in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Jane Perry as Lia Cain in Dead Take
Jeffrey Wright as Chase in Dispatch – WINNER
Kirsty Rider as Lune in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Troy Baker as Higgs in Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
Arc Raiders
Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
Doom: The Dark Ages
Ghost Of Yōtei – WINNER
Indiana Jones And The Great Circle
Split Fiction
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