BAFTA Games Awards Winners Announced, Unbox and Chicory Win Big

Put on your best bow tie and take advantage of unlimited table wine because it’s BAFTA time baby! On the evening of April 7th, the BAFTA Games Awards took place in London and promised to award Big Golden Faces to the best and brightest in the industry to celebrate their hard work.

As is often the case with gaming awards, most of the winners have been the shiny, beautiful PS5 games – Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, It Takes Two and Returnal have all won multiple awards – but the family category always belongs to Nintendo and a host of other indies also made sure sensation.

Here are the winners playable on Switch (including who are Come change soon):

ARTISTIC PERFORMANCE

**THE ARTIFICIAL ESCAPE Development Team – Beethoven & Dinosaurs/Annapurna Interactive

IT TAKES TWO Development Team – Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts

PSYCHONAUTS 2 development team – Double Fine Productions/Xbox Game Studios

RATCHET & CLANK: RIFT APART Development Team – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment

RESIDENT EVIL VILLAGE development team – Capcom/Capcom

RETURN Development Team – Housemarque/Sony Interactive Entertainment

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THE ARTIFICIAL ESCAPE Development Team – Beethoven & Dinosaurs/Annapurna Interactive

EASTWARD development team – Pixpil/Chucklefish

THE FORGOTTEN CITY Nick Pearce, Alexander Goss, John Eyre – Modern Storyteller/Dear Villagers

GENESIS NOIR Evan Anthony, Jeremy Abel – Feral Cat Cave / Fellow Traveler

MAQUETTE development team – Graceful Decay/Annapurna Interactive

** TOEM Development Team – Something we made/ Something we did

GROWING GAME

BETWEEN US development team – Innersloth/Innersloth

ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS Development Team – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo

APEX LEGENDS development team – Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts

DISCO ELYSIUM – THE FINAL CUT development team – ZA/UM/ZA/UM

FOURTEEN DAYS development team – Epic games/epic games, people can fly

**NO HUMAN HEAVEN development team – Hello Games/Hello Games

FAMILY

ALBA: A WILDLIFE ADVENTURE development team – ustwo games/ustwo games, plug-in digital

**CHICORY: A COLORFUL HISTORY Development Team – Greg Lobanov, A Shell in the Pit, Madeline Berger, Alexis Dean-Jones, Lena Raine/FINJI

FORZA HORIZON 5 development team – Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios

MARIO PARTY SUPERSTARS development team – Nintendo EPD/Nintendo

RATCHET & CLANK: RIFT APART Development Team – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment

UNPACKING Wren Brier, Tim Dawson, Jeff van Dyck – Witch Beam/Humble Games

NARRATIVE

IT TAKES TWO development team – Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts

LIFE IS STRANGE: REAL COLOURS Development Team – Square Enix, Deck Nine Games/Square Enix

MARVEL’S GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY development team – Eidos-Montréal/Square Enix

PSYCHONAUTS 2 Tim Schafer – Double Fine Productions/Xbox Game Studios

RETURN development team – Interactive entertainment from Housemarque/Sony

**UNPACKING Wren Brier, Tim Dawson, Annie VanderMeer – Witch Beam/Humble Games

EE GAME OF THE YEAR (voted by the public)

CHICORY: A COLORFUL STORY – Greg Lobanov, A Shell in the Pit, Madeline Berger, Alexis Dean-Jones, Lena Raine/FINJI

DEATHLOOP – Arkane Lyon/Bethesda Softworks

THE FORGOTTEN CITY – Modern Storyteller/Dear Villagers

IT TAKES TWO – Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts

METROID DREAD – Nintendo & MercurySteam, Nintendo

**UNPACKING – Witch Beam/Humble games

Other Switch games that made the shortlist but lost out in prizes include Death’s Door, Game Builder Garage, The Forgotten City, Metroid Dread, and Mario Party Superstars. Congratulations to all winners and also to all runners-up!

You can view the full nomination lists here. Do you think certain games were stolen? Are you happy your picks won? Why is Nintendo always only in the family category? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!