The nominees for the 2022 BAFTA Games Awards have been announced, with co-op platformer It Takes Two leading the field with nine nominations.
It Takes Two stormed the categories, earning nominations in eight categories including Best Game, Animation, Artistic Achievement, Narrative and more, as well as Public Voted EE Game of the Year.
Other leading games include Returnal (8 nominations), Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (7 nominations), Deathloop, and Forza Horizon 5 (6 nominations each).
The full list of nominations for the 2022 BAFTA Games Awards follows:
BAFTA 2022 Best Game Nominees
- death loop
- ForzaHorizon 5
- encryption
- It takes two
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift apart
- return
BAFTA 2022 nominees for British Game
- Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
- The Door of Death
- Fight in close quarters
- ForzaHorizon 5
- Over board!
- sable
BAFTA 2022 nominees for Animation
- Call of Duty: Vanguard
- It takes two
- Kena: Bridge of Spirits
- Life is Strange: True Colors
- psychonauts 2
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift apart
BAFTA 2022 nominees for artistic achievement
- The artful escape
- It takes two
- psychonauts 2
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift apart
- Resident Evil Village
- return
BAFTA 2022 Audio Achievement Nominees
- The artful escape
- Call of Duty: Vanguard
- death loop
- Halo infinity
- Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
- return
BAFTA 2022 Nominees for Debut Game
- The artful escape
- Eastward
- The forgotten city
- Genesis Noir
- maquette
- Tom
BAFTA 2022 nominees for Evolving Game
- Between us
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Apex Legends
- Disco Elysium – The Final Cut
- Fourteen days
- Nobody’s heaven
BAFTA 2022 Nominees for Family Game
- Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
- Chicory: A colorful story
- ForzaHorizon 5
- Mario Party Superstars
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift apart
- unpacking
BAFTA 2022 nominees for Game Beyond Entertainment
- Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
- Before your eyes
- Chicory: A colorful story
- Game Builder Garage
- It takes two
- psychonauts 2
BAFTA 2022 nominees for Game Design
- death loop
- ForzaHorizon 5
- encryption
- It takes two
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift apart
- return
BAFTA 2022 Nominees for Multiplayer Game
- Previous 4 blood
- Call of Duty: Vanguard
- ForzaHorizon 5
- Halo infinity
- hell break up
- It takes two
BAFTA 2022 nominees for music
- death loop
- Far cry 6
- Halo infinity
- psychonauts 2
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift apart
- return
BAFTA 2022 nominees for Narrative
- It takes two
- Life is Strange: True Colors
- Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
- psychonauts 2
- return
- unpacking
BAFTA 2022 nominees for Original Property
- death loop
- The Door of Death
- encryption
- It takes two
- return
- unpacking
BAFTA 2022 Nominees for Technical Achievement
- ForzaHorizon 5
- hit man 3
- psychonauts 2
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift apart
- Resident Evil Village
- return
BAFTA 2022 Nominees for EE Game of the Year
- Chicory: A colorful story
- death loop
- The forgotten city
- It takes two
- Metroid horror
- unpacking
Voting for EE Game of the Year is now open. This is the only public vote and the poll closes at 11:59pm UK time on April 1st. The category winner and everyone else will be announced at the BAFTA Games Awards ceremony on April 7th and streamed live.
Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Writer.
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