Last night, the BAFTA Games Awards 2020 rounded up the awards calendar with a look back at the finest video games to grace our screens in the past year. It was certainly a different affair than usual, featuring dogs, sheep, geese and more than one fake award due to the coronavirus pandemic. That didn’t stop the quality of games from shining through, however, and many winners took the chance to put a smile on people’s faces with entertaining reception videos. You’re here for the results, so let’s get straight to it with the BAFTA Games Awards 2020 Winners.
The BAFTA Games Awards 2020 winners
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Best Game
Winner: Outer Wilds
Nominations:
- Control
- Disco Elysium
- Luigi’s Mansion 3
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
- Untitled Goose Game
Animation
Winner: Luigi’s Mansion
Nominations:
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Control
- Death Stranding
- Sayonara Wild Hearts
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Artistic Achievement
Winner: Sayonara Wild Hearts
Nominations:
- Concrete Genie
- Control
- Death Stranding
- Disco Elysium
- Knights and Bikes
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Audio Achievement
Winner: Ape Out
Nominations:
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Control
- Death Stranding
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
- Untitled Goose Game
British Game
Winner: Observation
Nominations:
- Dirt Rally 2.0
- Heaven’s Vault
- Knights and Bikes
- Planet Zoo
- Total War: Three Kingdoms
Debut Game
Winner: Disco Elysium
Nominations:
- Ape Out
- Death Stranding
- Katana Zero
- Knights and Bikes
- Manifold Garden
Evolving Game
Winner: Path of Exile
Nominations:
- Apex Legends
- Destiny 2
- Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers
- Fortnite
- No Man’s Sky: Beyond
Family
Winner: Untitled Goose Game
Nominations:
- Concrete Genie
- Knights and Bikes
- Luigi’s Mansion 3
- Vacation Simulator
- Wattam
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Game Beyond Entertainment
Winner: Kind Words (Lo Fi Chill Beats To Write To)
Nominations:
- Civilization VI: Gathering Storm
- Death Stranding
- Life is Strange 2
- Neo Cab
- Ring Fit Adventure
Game Design
Winner: Outer Wilds
Nominations:
- Baba Is You
- Control
- Disco Elysium
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
- Wattam
Multiplayer
Winner: Apex Legends
Nominations:
- Borderlands 3
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Luigi’s Mansion 3
- Tick Tock: A Tale For Two
- Tom Clancy’s The Division 2
Music
Winner: Disco Elysium
Nominations:
- Control
- Death Stranding
- Outer Wilds
- The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
- Wattam
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Narrative
Winner: Disco Elysium
Nominations:
- Control
- Life is Strange 2
- Outer Wilds
- The Outer Worlds
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Original Property
Winner: Outer Wilds
Nominations:
- Baba Is You
- Control
- Death Stranding
- Disco Elysium
- Untitled Goose Game
Performer in a Leading Role
Winner: Gonzalo Martin as Sean Diaz in Life is Strange 2
Nominations:
- Laura Bailey as Kait Diaz in Gears 5
- Courtney Hope as Jesse Faden in Control
- Logan Marshall-Green as David in Telling Lies
- Barry Sloane as Captain Price in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Norman Reedus as Sam in Death Stranding
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Performer in a Supporting Role
Winner: Martti Suosalo as Ahti the Janitor in Control
Nominations:
- Jolene Andersen as Karen Reynolds in Life is Strange 2
- Troy Baker as Higgs in Death Stranding
- Sarah Bartholomew as Cassidy in Life is Strange 2
- Ayisha Issa as Fliss in The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
- Léa Seydoux as Fragile in Death Stranding
Technical Achievement
Winner: Death Stranding
Nominations:
- A Plague Tale: Innocence
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Control
- Metro Exodus
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
EE Mobile Game of the Year
Winner: Call of Duty: Mobile
Nominations:
- Assemble With Care
- Dead Man’s Phone
- Pokemon Go
- Tangle Tower
- What The Golf?
And that’s all of them! Every Bafta Games Award 2020 winner and nominee. Phew, Outer Wilds and Disco Elysium sure did well, eh? Thanks to coronavirus control measures, the show itself was an odd one, with host Dara Ó Briain presenting from a room in his house. Rather than proving to dampen spirits, it actually made for a very wholesome affair, as several winners producing silly and amusing video responses to the award. We’ve embedded the full Bafta Games Awards 2020 show below so you can enjoy it for yourself. See you next year!