The 2025 BAFTA Game Awards nominations have been announced, with Ninja Theory’s Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 picking up 11 nominations across multiple categories including Best British Game.

The Chinese Room’s Still Wakes the Deep received eight nominations, with many in the performance categories as well as Best British Game and the New Intellectual Property award.

Team Asobi’s Astro Bot and Coal Supper’s Thank Goodness You’re Here followed close behind with eight and seven nominations respectively, both being nominated in the Best Game category.

Meanwhile, Luke Roberts is up for Best Performer in a Leading Role for his performance as James Sunderland in Silent Hill 2.

Abbi Greenland and Helen Goalen, who portrayed the Furies in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, were among the nominees in the Best Supporting Role category.

“[The] nominations are a celebration of 41 outstanding games that showcase the very best of the British and international games industry,” said chair of BAFTA’s Games Committee Tara Saunders.

“They put game titles onto the global stage, unearthing hidden gems alongside the best-known game experiences of the year.”

The BAFTA Game Awards are voted for by members of its global membership group.

The winners will be announced on April 8, 2025, at the 21st BAFTA Game Awards in London.

Here are the full list of nominations:

Best Game

• Astro Bot (Team Asobi, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Balatro (Local Thunk, Playstack)
• Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
• Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Game Studios, PlayStation Publishing)
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Nintendo EPD, Grezzo)
• Thank Goodness You’re Here (Coal Supper, Panic Inc.)

Debut Game

• Animal Well (Shared Memory, Bigmode)
• Balatro (Local Thunk, Playstack)
• Pacific Drive (Ironwood Studios, Kepler Interactive)
• The Plucky Squire (All Possible Futures, Devolver Digital)
• Tales of Kenzera: ZAU (Surgent Studios, Electronic Arts)
• Thank Goodness You’re Here (Coal Supper, Panic Inc.)

British Game

• A Highland Song (Inkle)
• Lego Horizon Adventures (Guerilla Games, Studio Gobo, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Paper Trail (Newfangled Games)
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 (Ninja Theory, Xbox Game Studios)
• Still Wakes The Deep (The Chinese Room, Secret Mode)
• Thank Goodness You’re Here (Coal Supper, Panic Inc.)

Evolving Game

• Diablo 6 (Blizzard Team 3, Blizzard Albany, Blizzard Entertainment)
• Final Fantasy Online 16 (Square Enix Creative, Business Unit 3, Square Enix)
• No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)
• Sea of Thieves (Rare, Xbox Game Studios)
• Vampire Survivors (Poncle)
• World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)

Multiplayer

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Treyarch, Raven Software, Activision)
• Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Game Studios, PlayStation Publishing)
• Lego Horizon Adventures (Guerilla Games, Studio Gobo, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Super Mario Party Jamboree (Nintendo Cube, Nintendo)
• Tekken 8 (Bandai Namco Studios, Arika, Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (Saber St. Petersburg, Focus Entertainment)

Family

• Astro Bot (Team Asobi, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Cat Quest 3 (The Gentlebros, Kepler Interactive)
• Lego Horizon Adventures (Guerilla Games, Studio Gobo, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Little Kitty, Big City (Double Dagger Studios)
• The Plucky Squire (All Possible Futures, Devolver Digital)
• Super Mario Party Jamboree (Nintendo Cube, Nintendo)

Game beyond entertainment

• Botany Manor (Balloon Studios, Whitethorn Games)
• Kind Words 2 (Lofi City Pop) (Popcannibal)
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 (Ninja Theory, Xbox Game Studios)
• Tales of Kenzera: ZAU (Surgent Studios, Electronic Arts)
• Tetris Forever (Digital Eclipse)
• Vampire Therapist (Little Bat Games)

Game Design

• Animal Well (Shared Memory, Bigmode)
• Astro Bot (Team Asobi, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Balatro (Local Thunk, Playstack)
• Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Game Studios, PlayStation Publishing)
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Nintendo EPD, Grezzo)
• Tactical Breach Wizard (Suspicious Developments)

Narrative

• Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Bioware, Electronic Arts)
• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (Square Enix Creative, Business Unit 1, Square Enix)
• Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero, Sega, JP: Atlus)
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 (Ninja Theory, Xbox Game Studios)
• Still Wakes The Deep (The Chinese Room, Secret Mode)

Performer in a leading role

• Alec Newman as Caz in Still Wakes the Deep
• Humberly González as Kay Vess in Star Wars Outlaws
• Isabella Inchbald as Indika in Indika
• Luke Roberts as James Sunderland in Silent Hill 2
• Melina Juregens as Senua in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Y’lan Noel as Troy Marshall in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Performer in a supporting role

• Abbi Greenland and Helen Goalen as the Furies in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Aldís Amah Hamilton as Ástríðr in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Jon Blyth as Big Ron in Thank Goodness You’re Here
• Karen Dunbar as Finlay in Still Wakes the Deep
• Matt Berry as Herbert in Thank Goodness You’re Here
• Michael Abubakar as Brodie in Still Wakes the Deep

Animation

• Astro Bot (Team Asobi, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Treyarch, Raven Software, Activision)
• Lego Horizon Adventures (Guerilla Games, Studio Gobo, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 (Ninja Theory, Xbox Game Studios)
• Thank Goodness You’re Here (Coal Supper, Panic Inc.)
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (Saber St. Petersburg, Focus Entertainment)

Artistic Achievement

• Astro Bot (Team Asobi, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
• Harold Halibut (Slow Bros.)
• Neva (Nomada Studio, Devolver Digital)
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 (Ninja Theory, Xbox Game Studios)
• Still Wakes the Deep (The Chinese Room, Secret Mode)

Audio Achievement

• Animal Well (Shared Memory, Bigmode)
• Astro Bot (Team Asobi, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Game Studios, PlayStation Publishing)
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 (Ninja Theory, Xbox Game Studios)
• Star Wars Outlaws (Massive Entertainment, Ubisoft)
• Still Wakes the Deep (The Chinese Room, Secret Mode)

Music

• Astro Bot (Team Asobi, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (Square Enix Creative, Business Unit 1, Square Enix)
• Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Game Studios, PlayStation Publishing)
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 (Ninja Theory, Xbox Game Studios)
• Star Wars Outlaws (Massive Entertainment, Ubisoft)

New intellectual property

• Animal Well (Shared Memory, Bigmode)
• Balatro (Local Thunk, Playstack)
• Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
• Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero, Sega, JP: Atlus)
• Still Wakes the Deep (The Chinese Room, Secret Mode)
• Thank Goodness You’re Here (Coal Supper, Panic Inc.)

Technical achievement

• Astro Bot (Team Asobi, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Treyarch, Raven Software, Activision)
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 (Ninja Theory, Xbox Game Studios)
• Tiny Glade (Pounce Light)
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (Saber St. Petersburg, Focus Entertainment)