Astro Boy wins again (BAFTA/Getty Images) Astro Bot has won the lion’s shares of this year’s trophies at the Bafta Games Awards, with Still Wakes The Deep picking up three. Most organisations had their yearly game awards some time ago, with Astro Bot wining Game of the Year at The Game Awards in December – although we named Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth our favourite title of 2024, in our own Top 20 list. The Bafta Games Awards are always heavily biased towards British developers, while seemingly reticent to acknowledge Asian titles, but this year they didn’t have any choice and Sony’s Astro Bot picked up Best Game, Best Animation, Audio Achievement, Family, and Game Design. That was the most of any game, but the British made Still Wakes The Deep won three, for New Intellectual Property, Performer in a Leading Role, and Performer in a Supporting Role. Helldivers 2 won twice for Multiplayer and Best Music, while other winners included Balatro for Debut Game, Metaphor: ReFantazio for Narrative, and Tales of Kenzera: Zau for Game Beyond Entertainment. Previous Best Game winner Vampire Survivors picked up the Evolving Game award, the otherwise disappointing Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 won for Technical Achievement, and Thank Goodness You’re Here! picked up the British Game award. More Trending However, perhaps the most deserved winner of the night was former Capcom composer Yoko Shimomura, who was responsible for the iconic Street Fighter 2 soundtrack, as well as everything from Super Mario RPG and Final Fantasy 15 to multiple titles in the Kingdom Hearts franchise. She was awarded a Bafta Fellowship, which puts her alongside such gaming luminaries as Shuhei Yoshida, Hideo Kojima, Tim Schafer, John Carmack, David Braben, Rockstar Games, Gabe Newell, Peter Molyneux, Shigeru Miyamoto, Nolan Bushnell, and Will Wright. Not to mention Stanley Kubrick, Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench, and Floella Benjamin. The awards were hosted by comedian Phil Wang and considered titles between November 25, 2023 and November 15, 2024, with some restrictions on eligibility of remakes and DLC. Yoko Shimomura deserves her Fellowship (Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock) Bafta Games Awards 2025 winners Winners are indicated in bold ANIMATION Astro Bot development team – Team Asobi/Sony Interactive Entertainment Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 development team – Treyarch, Raven Software/Activision Lego Horizon Adventures development team – Guerilla Games, Studio Gobo/Sony interactive Entertainment Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 development team – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios Thank Goodness You’re Here! Will Todd, James Carbutt – Coal Supper/Panic Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 development team – Saber Interactive/Focus Entertainment ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT Astro Bot development team – Team Asobi/Sony Interactive Entertainment Black Myth: Wukong development team – GameScience/GameScience Harold Halibut – Ole Tillmann, Fabian Preuschoff, Onat Hekimoglu/Slow Bros. Neva development team – Nomada Studio/Devolver Digital Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 development team – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios Still Wakes The Deep development team – The Chinese Room/Secret Mode AUDIO ACHIEVEMENT Animal Well – Billy Basso/Bigmode Astro Bot development team – Team Asobi/Sony Interactive Entertainment Helldivers 2 development team – Arrowhead Game Studios/Sony Interactive Entertainment Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 development team – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios Star Wars Outlaws development team – Massive Entertainment/Ubisoft Still Wakes The Deep development team – The Chinese Room/Secret Mode BEST GAME Astro Bot development team – Team Asobi/Sony Interactive Entertainment Balatro – LocalThunk/Playstack Black Myth: Wukong development team – GameScience/GameScience Helldivers 2 development team – Arrowhead Game Studios/Sony Interactive Entertainment The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom development team – Nintendo EPD, Grezzo/Nintendo Thank Goodness You’re Here! Will Todd, James Carbutt – Coal Supper/Panic BRITISH GAME A Highland Song development team – Inkle Ltd Lego Horizon Adventures development team – Guerilla Games, Studio Gobo/Sony interactive Entertainment Paper Trail development team – Newfangled Games/Newfangled Games Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 development team – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios Still Wakes The Deep development team – The Chinese Room/Secret Mode Thank Goodness You’re Here! Will Todd, James Carbutt – Coal Supper/Panic DEBUT GAME Animal Well – Billy Basso/Bigmode Balatro – LocalThunk/Playstack Pacific Drive development team – Ironwood Studios/Kepler Interactive The Plucky Squire development team – All Possible Futures/Devolver Digital Tales Of Kenzera: Zau development team – Surgent Studios/Electronic Arts Thank Goodness You’re Here! Will Todd, James Carbutt – Coal Supper/Panic EVOLVING GAME Diablo 4 development team – Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment Final Fantasy 14 Online development team – Creative Studios 3/Square Enix No Man’s Sky development team – Hello Games/Hello Games Sea Of Thieves development team – Rare/Xbox Game Studios Vampire Survivors development team – poncle/poncle World Of Warcraft development team – Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment FAMILY Astro Bot development team – Team Asobi/Sony Interactive Entertainment Cat Quest 3 – Desmond Wong, Liang Wai, Nursyazana Binte Zainal, The Gentlebros/Kepler Interactive Lego Horizon Adventures development team – Guerilla Games, Studio Gobo/Sony interactive Entertainment Little Kitty, Big City development team – Double Dagger Studio/Double Dagger Studio The Plucky Squire development team – All Possible Futures/Devolver Digital Super Mario Party Jamboree development team – Nintendo Cube/Nintendo GAME BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT Botany Manor development team – Balloon Studios/Whitethorn Games Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop) – Ziba Scott, Luigi Guatieri, Clark Aboud, Popcannibal/Popcannibal Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 development team – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios Tales Of Kenzera: Zau development team – Surgent Studios/Electronic Arts Tetris Forever development team – Digital Eclipse/Digital Eclipse Vampire Therapist – Cyrus Nemati, Sheila Fell, Kim Schumacher – Little Bat Games/Little Bat Games GAME DESIGN Animal Well – Billy Basso/Bigmode Astro Bot development team – Team Asobi/Sony Interactive Entertainment Balatro – LocalThunk/Playstack Helldivers 2 development team – Arrowhead Game Studios/Sony Interactive Entertainment The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom development team – Nintendo EPD, Grezzo/Nintendo Tactical Breach Wizards – Tom Francis, Steve Lee, John Roberts, Suspicious Developments/Suspicious Developments MULTIPLAYER Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 development team – Treyarch, Raven Software/Activision Helldivers 2 development team – Arrowhead Game Studios/Sony Interactive Entertainment Lego Horizon Adventures development team – Guerilla Games, Studio Gobo/Sony interactive Entertainment Super Mario Party Jamboree development team – Nintendo Cube/Nintendo Tekken 8 development team – Bandai Namco Studios/Bandai Namco Entertainment Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 development team – Saber Interactive/Focus Entertainment MUSIC Astro Bot development team – Team Asobi/Sony Interactive Entertainment Black Myth: Wukong development team – GameScience/GameScience Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth development team – Square Enix/Square Enix Helldivers 2 development team – Arrowhead Game Studios/Sony Interactive Entertainment Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 development team – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios Star Wars Outlaws development team – Massive Entertainment/Ubisoft NARRATIVE Black Myth: Wukong development team – GameScience/GameScience Dragon Age: The Veilguard development team – BioWare/Electronic Arts Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth development team – Square Enix/Square Enix Metaphor: ReFantazio development team – Studio Zero/Atlus Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 development team – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios Still Wakes The Deep development team – The Chinese Room/Secret Mode NEW INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Animal Well – Billy Basso/Bigmode Balatro – LocalThunk/Playstack Black Myth: Wukong development team – GameScience/GameScience Metaphor: ReFantazio development team – Studio Zero/Atlus Still Wakes The Deep development team – The Chinese Room/Secret Mode Thank Goodness You’re Here! Will Todd, James Carbutt – Coal Supper/Panic PERFORMER IN A LEADING ROLE Alec Newman as Cameron ‘Caz’ McLeary in Still Wakes The Deep – The Chinese Room/Secret Mode Humberly Gonzalez as Kay Vess in Star Wars Outlaws – Massive Entertainment/Ubisoft Isabella Inchbald as Indika in Indika – Odd Neter/11 bit Studios Luke Roberts as James Sunderland in Silent Hill 2 – Bloober Team/Konami Digital Entertainment Melina Juergens as Senua in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios Y’lan Noel as Troy Marshall in Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 – Treyarch, Raven Software/Activision PERFORMER IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Abbi Greenland and Helen Goalen as The Furies in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios Aldis Amah Hamilton as Ástríðr in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios Jon Blyth as Big Ron in Thank Goodness You’re Here! – Coal Supper/Panic Karen Dunbar as Finlay in Still Wakes The Deep – the Chinese Room/Secret Mode Matt Berry as Herbert the Gardner in Thank Goodness You’re Here! – Coal Supper/Panic Michael Abubakar as Brodie in Still Wakes The Deep – The Chinese Room/Secret Mode TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT Astro Bot development team – Team Asobi/Sony Interactive Entertainment Black Myth: Wukong development team – GameScience/GameScience Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 development team – Treyarch, Raven Software/Activision Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 development team – Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios Tiny Glade – Tomasz Stachowiak, Anastasia Opara – Pounce Light/Pounce Light Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 development team – Saber Interactive/Focus Entertainment Email gamecentral@metro.co.uk, leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. 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