The BAFTA Game Awards saw both Outer Wilds and Disco Elysium steal the show, as Hideo Kojima received his Fellowship.
Despite its cancellation due to the coronavirus, the BAFTA Game Awards were still able to be held last night, albeit under different circumstances.
Rather than a live showing, the ceremony was livestreamed via BAFTA’s official social media platforms, including YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch, and hosted by comedian/gaming fan Dara Ó Briain, making this his ninth time hosting the event.
While it may not have been the most ideal of circumstances, that didn’t dilute some of the victories of the night, as a couple of games managed to score some massive wins, particularly Outer Wilds (not to be confused with the completely unrelated The Outer Worlds).
The adventure/puzzle title about a solar system stuck in a time-loop walked away with no less than three awards for Best Game, Game Design, and Original Property.
Its Best Game win is particularly impressive, as its competition included high-profile games such as Control and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, the latter of which won Game of the Year at 2019’s Game Awards.
Disco Elysium also cleaned up, taking home the awards for Debut Game, Narrative, and Music, beating out Death Stranding in two of those categories.
Death Stranding didn’t leave empty-handed, though, as it still won in the new Technical Achievement category, and director, writer, and designer Hideo Kojima was given his promised Fellowship, the highest honour one can receive from the BAFTAs.
Meanwhile, the EE Mobile Game of the year (the only award to be voted on by the general public) went to Call Of Duty: Mobile.
The full list of nominees and winners can be found below.
The BAFTA Game Awards 2020 winners and nominees
BEST GAME
Control
Disco Elysium
Luigi’s Mansion 3
Outer Wilds – WINNER
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Untitled Goose Game
PERFORMER IN A LEAD ROLE
Laura Bailey as Kait Diaz (Gears 5)
Courtney Hope as Jesse Faden (Control)
Logan Marshall-Green as David Smith (Telling Lies)
Gonzalo Martin as Sean Diaz (Life Is Strange 2) – WINNER
Norman Reedus as Sam Porter Bridges (Death Stranding)
Barry Sloane as Captain John Price (Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare)
PERFORMER IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jolene Andersen as Karen Reynolds (Life Is Strange 2)
Troy Baker as Higgs (Death Stranding)
Sarah Bartholomew as Cassidy (Life Is Strange 2)
Ayisha Issa as Félicité ‘Fliss’ DuBois (The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man Of Medan)
Lea Seydoux as Fragile (Death Stranding)
Martti Suosalo as Ahti (Control) – WINNER
TECHNICAL ACHIVEMENT
A Plague Tale: Innocence
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare
Control
Death Stranding – WINNER
Metro Exodus
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
ORIGINAL PROPERTY
Baba Is You
Control
Death Stranding
Disco Elysium
Outer Wilds – WINNER
Untitled Goose Game
NARRATIVE
Control
Disco Elysium – WINNER
Life Is Strange 2
Outer Wilds
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
The Outer Worlds
MUSIC
Control
Death Stranding
Disco Elysium – WINNER
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
Outer Wilds
Wattam
MULTIPLAYER
Apex Legends – WINNER
Borderlands 3
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare
Luigi’s Mansion 3
Tick Tock: A Tale For Two
Tom Clancy’s The Division 2
GAME DESIGN
Baba Is You
Control
Disco Elysium
Outer Wilds – WINNER
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Wattam
GAME BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT
Civilization VI
Death Stranding
Kind Words (lo-fi chill beats to write to) – WINNER
Life Is Strange 2
Neo Cab
Ring Fit Adventure
FAMILY
Concrete Genie
Knights And Bikes
Luigi’s Mansion 3
Untitled Goose Game – WINNER
Vacation Simulator
Wattam
EVOLVING GAME
Apex Legends
Destiny 2
Final Fantasy XIV: Stormbringers
Fortnite
No Man’s Sky Beyond
Path Of Exile – Winner
DEBUT GAME
Ape Out
Death Stranding
Disco Elysium – WINNER
Katana ZERO
Knights And Bikes
Manifold Garden
BRITISH GAME
DiRT Rally 2.0
Heaven’s Vault
Knights And Bikes
Observation – WINNER
Planet Zoo
Total War: Three Kingdoms
AUDIO ACHIVEMENT
Ape Out – WINNER
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare
Control
Death Stranding
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Untitled Goose Game
ARTISTIC ACHIVEMENT
Concrete Genie
Control
Death Stranding
Disco Elysium
Knights And Bikes
Sayonara Wild Hearts – WINNER
ANIMATION
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare
Control
Death Stranding
Luigi’s Mansion 3 – WINNER
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
EE MOBILE GAME OF THE YEAR
Assemble With Care
Call Of Duty: Mobile – WINNER
Dead Man’s Phone
Pokémon Go
Tangle Tower
What The Golf?
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