Clair Obscur and Dispatch share high honours at Bafta video games awards | Games

With 12 nominations, acclaimed role-playing journey Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was anticipated to be the runaway success on the 2026 Bafta video games awards, held in London on Friday night.

And whereas it couldn’t fairly match its 9 wins on the Game Awards again in December, it was nonetheless the joint greatest winner on the evening, taking greatest recreation and debut recreation in addition to the performer in a number one function award for Jennifer English.

Alongside it was superhero comedy Dispatch, which gained animation, audio achievement and performer in a supporting function for Jeffrey Wright. The solely different a number of winner on a diversified, unpredictable evening was historic samurai slasher Ghost of Yōtei, taking trophies for music and technical achievement.

The visually gorgeous post-apocalyptic epic Death Stranding 2 attracted seven nominations however took simply the one: creative achievement. In the British recreation class, Rebellion’s Fifties-themed nuclear catastrophe thriller Atomfall claimed the prize in opposition to an fascinating array of opponents together with Two Point Museum and Power Wash Simulator 2. Another British recreation, No Man’s Sky, gained evolving recreation. The much-praised puzzler Blue Prince was a worthy winner in recreation design, although it misplaced out within the narrative class to Kingdom Come: Deliverance II.

One slight shock was in new mental property, the place South of Midnight beat a powerful area together with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Dispatch, Arc Raiders and Split Fiction. The video games past leisure award, which recognises video games that ship “a transformational experience”, went to the attractive semi-autobiographical Despelote, a couple of boy’s expertise of Ecuador’s 2002 World Cup qualifying journey. Finally, Arc Raiders gained in multiplayer and Lego Party! took the household award.

The Bafta Fellowship was introduced to Ilkka Paananen, chief govt and co-founder of smartphone video games developer Supercell, creator of smash hits Clash of Clans and Clash Royale.

The full checklist of Bafta video games awards winners

Animation Dispatch

Artistic achievement Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Audio achievement Dispatch

Best recreation Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

British recreation Atomfall

Debut recreation Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Evolving recreation No Man’s Sky

Family Lego Party!

Game past leisure Despelote

Game design Blue Prince

Multiplayer Arc Raiders

Music Ghost of Yōtei

Narrative Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

New mental property South of Midnight

Performer in a number one function Jennifer English as Maelle in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Performer in a supporting function Jeffrey Wright as Chase in Dispatch

Technical achievement Ghost of Yōtei