Returnal wins big at this year's BAFTA Games Awards (original) (raw)

Plus awards for Unpacking, Inscryption, more.

Returnal

BAFTA has announced the 2022 winners of its annual Games Awards, with developer Housemarque's sci-fi shooter rogue-like Returnal leaving the show most laden, having taken home the gong across a grand total of four categories, including one for Best Game.

Alongside that Best Game award, Returnal came top in BAFTA's Audio Achievement amd Music categories, while Jane Perry scored a win in the Performer in a Leading Role category for her portrayal of Returnal protagonist Selene Vassos.

Returnal wasn't the only multi-award winner, however; Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart successfully beat the competition in BAFTA's Animation and Technical Achievement categories, while Hazelight Studios' It Takes Two was named best Multiplayer game and best Original Property.

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As for Witch Beam's Unpacking (which was named Eurogamer's Game of 2021, you may recall), it won best Narrative and EE Game of the Year, the latter as voted by the public.

Elsewhere, Hello Games' exploratory sci-fi sim No Man's Sky took home the prize for best Evolving Game, Forza 5 won best British Game, and plenty of smaller titles gained recognition in categories dominated by AAA nominees.

Developer Beethoven & Dinosaur's The Artful Escape secured the Artistic Achievement award, for instance - winning out against the likes of Psychonauts 2, Ratchet & Clank, and Resident Evil Village - while Daniel Mullins' wonderfully weird deck-builder Inscryption was named as winner in the Game Design category, beating the likes of Forza Horizon 5, Returnal, and Deathloop.

You'll find the full list of this year's BAFTA Games Awards winners (bolded among all nominees in each category) below:

ANIMATION

ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT

AUDIO ACHIEVEMENT

BEST GAME

BRITISH GAME

DEBUT GAME

EVOLVING GAME

FAMILY

GAME BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT

GAME DESIGN

MULTIPLAYER

MUSIC

NARRATIVE

ORIGINAL PROPERTY

PERFORMER IN A LEADING ROLE

PERFORMER IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT

EE GAME OF THE YEAR (voted for by the public)

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