The 19th British Academy Video Game Awards were hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 30 March 2023 to honour the best video games of 2022. Held at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the ceremony was hosted by esports presenter Frankie Ward, taking over from Elle Osili-Wood who hosted the previous two ceremonies. The ceremony was livestreamed exclusively on BAFTA's Twitch channel, hosted by games journalist Julia Hardy and comedian Inel Tomlinson. Red carpet coverage was presented by Eurogamers Aoife Wilson.
Sony Interactive's God of War Ragnarök received the most nominations, with fifteen, becoming the most nominated game in the history of the BAFTA Games Awards. While God of War Ragnarök won the most awards at the ceremony, with six, the top honour, Best Game, was surprisingly won by Vampire Survivors.
Nominees and winners
The nominees were announced by games journalist Julia Hardy on 2 March 2023 via a livestream held on BAFTA's Twitch channel. An additional panel of live streamers were revealed as the "BAFTA Games Squad", who also streamed the nominations announcement and discussed their thoughts on the nominated games. The EE Game of the Year nominees, the only category voted for by the British public, were announced two days earlier on 28 February 2023, and were selected by a jury of ten industry professionals, with voting closing on 28 March, two days prior to the ceremony.
Vampire Survivors – Poncle Cult of the Lamb – Massive Monster/Devolver Digital Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco God of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica/Sony Interactive Entertainment Marvel Snap – Second Dinner/Nuverse Stray – BlueTwelve/Annapurna Interactive | valign="top" |
God of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica/Sony Interactive Entertainment Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II – Infinity Ward/Activision Horizon Forbidden West – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga – TT Games/Warner Bros Interactive Sifu – Sloclap Stray – BlueTwelve/Annapurna Interactive |- | valign="top" |
Tunic – Finji A Plague Tale: Requiem – Asobo/Focus Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco God of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica/Sony Interactive Entertainment Immortality – Half Mermaid Productions Pentiment – Obsidian/Xbox Game Studios | width="50%" valign="top" |
God of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica/Sony Interactive Entertainment A Plague Tale: Requiem – Asobo/Focus Horizon Forbidden West – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment Metal: Hellsinger – The Outsiders/Funcom Oslo Stray – BlueTwelve/Annapurna Interactive Tunic – Finji |- | valign="top" |
Rollerdrome – Roll7/Private Division Citizen Sleeper – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller OlliOlli World – Roll7/Private Division Total War: Warhammer III – Creative Assembly/Sega Two Point Campus – Two Point Studios/Sega Vampire Survivors – Poncle | width="50%" valign="top" |
Tunic – Finji As Dusk Falls – Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios The Case of the Golden Idol – Color Gray Games/Playstack Stray – BlueTwelve/Annapurna Interactive Trombone Champ – Holy Wow Studios Vampire Survivors – Poncle |- | valign="top" |
Final Fantasy XIV Online – Creative Business Unit III/Square Enix Apex Legends – Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts Dreams – Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment The Elder Scrolls Online – ZeniMax Online Studios/Bethesda Softworks Forza Horizon 5 – Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios No Man's Sky – Hello Games | width="50%" valign="top" |
Kirby and the Forgotten Land – HAL Laboratory/Nintendo Disney Dreamlight Valley – Gameloft Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga – TT Games/Warner Bros Interactive Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope – Ubisoft Nintendo Switch Sports – Nintendo EPD Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge – Tribute Games/Dotemu |- | valign="top" |
Endling: Extinction is Forever – Herobeat Studios/HandyGames Citizen Sleeper – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller Gibbon: Beyond the Trees – Broken Rules I Was a Teenage Exocolonist – Northway Games/Finji Not For Broadcast – NotGames/TinyBuild We'll Always Have Paris – Cowleyfornia Studios | width="50%" valign="top" |
Vampire Survivors – Poncle Cult of the Lamb – Massive Monster/Devolver Digital Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco God of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica/Sony Interactive Entertainment Horizon Forbidden West – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment Tunic – Finji |- | valign="top" |
Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II – Infinity Ward/Activision FIFA 23 – EA Sports Overwatch 2 – Blizzard Entertainment Splatoon 3 – Nintendo Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge – Tribute Games/Dotemu | width="50%" valign="top" |
God of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica/Sony Interactive Entertainment A Plague Tale: Requiem – Asobo/Focus Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course – Studio MDHR Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco Stray – BlueTwelve/Annapurna Interactive Tunic – Finji |- | valign="top" |
Immortality – Half Mermaid Productions A Plague Tale: Requiem – Asobo/Focus Citizen Sleeper – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller God of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica/Sony Interactive Entertainment Pentiment – Obsidian/Xbox Game Studios Stray – BlueTwelve/Annapurna Interactive | width="50%" valign="top" |
Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco Citizen Sleeper – Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller Cult of the Lamb – Massive Monster/Devolver Digital Sifu – Sloclap Stray – BlueTwelve/Annapurna Interactive Vampire Survivors – Poncle |- | valign="top" |
Christopher Judge as Kratos in God of War Ragnarök Alain Mesa as Alejandro Vargas in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Charlotte McBurney as Amicia in A Plague Tale: Requiem Manon Gage as Marissa Marcel in Immortality Siobhan Williams as Laura in The Quarry Sunny Suljic as Atreus in God of War Ragnarök Laya Deleon Hayes as Angrboða in God of War Ragnarök Adam J. Harrington as Sindri in God of War Ragnarök Alison Jaye as Alva in Horizon Forbidden West Charlotta Mohlin as The One in Immortality Danielle Bisutti as Freya in God of War Ragnarök Ryan Hurst as Thor in God of War Ragnarök Horizon Forbidden West – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco God of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica/Sony Interactive Entertainment Immortality – Half Mermaid Productions The Last of Us Part I – Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Stray – BlueTwelve/Annapurna Interactive God of War Ragnarök'' – Santa Monica/Sony Interactive Entertainment Elden Ring – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco Horizon Forbidden West – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment Immortality – Half Mermaid Productions Marvel Snap – Second Dinner/Nuverse Stray'' – BlueTwelve/Annapurna Interactive
BAFTA Fellowship: Shuhei Yoshida
Multiple nominations and wins Game Nominations Wins God of War Ragnarök 15 6 Stray 9 0 Elden Ring 8 2 Horizon Forbidden West 6 1 Immortality A Plague Tale: Requiem 5 0 Tunic 5 2 Vampire Survivors Citizen Sleeper 4 0 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II 3 0 Cult of the Lamb Pentiment 2 0 Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Marvel Snap Sifu Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
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