Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Dispatch Lead BAFTA Game Awards 2026 Nominations

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The beloved Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is unsurprisingly up for yet much prizes, arsenic it leads this year's BAFTA Games Awards nominations with an awesome 12 nods.

Clair Obscur is up for the main Best Game award, arsenic good arsenic Debut Game for its workplace Sandfall Interactive. It is the astir nominated debut crippled ever astatine the BAFTAs, and has the 3rd highest information full of each clip (behind The Last of Us Part 2's 13 nominations successful 2021, and God of War: Ragnarok's 14 nominations successful 2023).

Dispatch, the highly-rated superhero workplace drama made by erstwhile Telltale squad members, is up for an awesome 9 awards, including some Best Game and Debut Game. Ghost of Yōtei has 8 nods, portion Death Stranding 2: On the Beach has seven. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has six nominations, portion Arc Raiders has five.

Individual performers up for awards see Breaking Bad prima Aaron Paul for his relation arsenic Robert Robertson successful Dispatch, Erika Ishii for her portrayal of Atsu successful Ghost of Yōtei, and past a slew of nominations for the formed of Clair Obscur.

Ben Starr and Jennifer English are up against each different again for their roles arsenic Verso and Maelle (English won retired astatine past year's Game Awards). Daredevil histrion Charlie Cox has a supporting histrion information for Gustave, arsenic does Kirsty Rider for Lune.

Amusingly, Troy Baker is up for some Performer successful a Leading Role and Performer successful a Supporting Role this year, for his enactment arsenic Indy successful Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and arsenic Higgs successful Death Stranding 2.

"Today's nominations recognise 42 outstanding games that item the precise champion of the planetary games industry," said Tara Saunders, seat of BAFTA's Games Committee, successful a connection sent to IGN.

"This year's nominations bespeak an manufacture reshaping itself – with a vibrant premix of established studios lasting alongside a wide scope of autarkic studios, and a fig of improvement teams earning nominations for the archetypal time. The exceptional craft, artistry and innovation down these titles shines through. A information is an bonzer achievement, and I widen my warmest congratulations to each nominee for their innovation, hard enactment and resilience."

The BAFTA Games Awards 2026 volition crown its winners connected April 17, during a ceremonial held astatine the Queen Elizabeth Hall successful London, that volition besides beryllium disposable to ticker online via YouTube. The afloat database of nominees lies below:

BAFTA Games Awards 2026 Nominees

ANIMATION

BATTLEFIELD 6 Development Team - Battlefield Studios/Electronic Arts
DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Hideo Kojima, Masaaki Kawata, Laurie Jezequel - Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
DISPATCH Development Team - AdHoc Studio/AdHoc Studio
GHOST OF YŌTEI Development Team - Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
HADES II Craig Harris, Nikita Taranduke, Jen Zee - Supergiant Games/Supergiant Games
HOLLOW KNIGHT: SILKSONG Development Team - Team Cherry/Team Cherry

ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT

CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33 Development Team - Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Hideo Kojima, Yoji Shinkawa, Megan Tuckwell - Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
DISPATCH Derek Stratton - AdHoc Studio/AdHoc Studio
GHOST OF YŌTEI Development Team - Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
HOLLOW KNIGHT: SILKSONG Development Team - Team Cherry/Team Cherry
SOUTH OF MIDNIGHT Development Team - Compulsion Games/Xbox Game Studios

AUDIO ACHIEVEMENT

ARC RAIDERS Bence Pajor, Olof Strömqvist, Simon Svanbäck - Embark Studios/Embark Studios
CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33 Development Team - Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Hideo Kojima, Hiroyuki Nakayama - Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
DISPATCH Development Team - AdHoc Studio/AdHoc Studio
GHOST OF YŌTEI Development Team - Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE Development Team – MachineGames/Bethesda

BEST GAME

ARC RAIDERS Aleksander Grøndal, Stefan Strandberg, Virgil Watkins - Embark Studios/Embark Studios
BLUE PRINCE Development Team – Dogubomb/Raw Fury
CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33 Development Team - Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
DISPATCH Nick Herman, Dennis Lenart, Pierre Shorette - AdHoc Studio/AdHoc Studio
GHOST OF YŌTEI Development Team - Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE Development Team – MachineGames/Bethesda

BRITISH GAME

ATOMFALL Development Team – Rebellion/Rebellion
CITIZEN SLEEPER 2: STARWARD VECTOR Gareth Damian Martin, Guillaume Singelin, Amos Roddy - Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller
MAFIA: THE OLD COUNTRY Development Team - Hangar 13/2K
MONUMENT VALLEY 3 Development Team - ustwo games/ustwo games
POWERWASH SIMULATOR 2 Development Team – FuturLab/FuturLab
TWO POINT MUSEUM Development Team - Two Point Studios/SEGA

DEBUT GAME

BLUE PRINCE Development Team – Dogubomb/Raw Fury
CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33 Development Team - Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
CONSUME ME Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson - Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken & Snyder/ Hexecutable LLC
DESPELOTE Development Team - Julián Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena/Panic
DISPATCH Nick Herman, Dennis Lenart, Pierre Shorette - AdHoc Studio/AdHoc Studio
THE MIDNIGHT WALK Development Team – MoonHood/Fast Travel Games

EVOLVING GAME

FALLOUT 76 Development Team - Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda
HELLDIVERS 2 Development Team - Arrowhead Game Studios/Sony Interactive Entertainment
HITMAN WORLD OF ASSASSINATION Development Team - IO Interactive/IO Interactive
NO MAN'S SKY Development Team - Hello Games/Hello Games
VAMPIRE SURVIVORS Development Team – poncle/poncle
WARHAMMER 40,000: SPACE MARINE 2 Dmitry Grigorenko, Oliver Hollis-Leick, Anatolii Koruka - Saber Interactive/Focus Entertainment Publishing

FAMILY

DONKEY KONG BANANZA Development Team - Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
IS THIS SEAT TAKEN? Ausiàs Dalmau, Sergi Pérez - Poti Poti/Wholesome Games Presents
LEGO PARTY! Development Team - SMG Studio/Fictions
MARIO KART WORLD Development Team – Nintendo/Nintendo
POWERWASH SIMULATOR 2 Development Team – FuturLab/FuturLab
TWO POINT MUSEUM Development Team - Two Point Studios/SEGA

GAME BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT

THE ALTERS Development Team - 11 spot studios/11 spot studios
AND ROGER Yona, Yasuhiro Nakashima - TearyHand Studio/Kodansha
CITIZEN SLEEPER 2: STARWARD VECTOR Gareth Damian Martin, Guillaume Singelin, Amos Roddy - Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller
CONSUME ME Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson - Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken & Snyder/ Hexecutable LLC
DESPELOTE Julian Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena, Gabe Cuzzillo - Julián Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena/Panic
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: HEART OF CHORNOBYL Development Team - GSC Game World/GSC Game World

GAME DESIGN

BALL X PIT Kenny Sun - Kenny Sun & Friends/Devolver Digital
BLUE PRINCE Tonda Ros - Dogubomb/Raw Fury
CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33 Development Team - Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
GHOST OF YŌTEI Development Team - Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
HADES II Amir Rao, Gavin Simon, Greg Kasavin - Supergiant Games/Supergiant Games
SPLIT FICTION Development Team - Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts

MULTIPLAYER

ARC RAIDERS Aleksander Grøndal, Virgil Watkins - Embark Studios/Embark Studios
DUNE: AWAKENING Marcos Pereira, Paul Vallet, Hugo Gonçalves – Funcom/Funcom
ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN Development Team - FROMSOFTWARE INC./BANDAI NAMCO
LEGO PARTY! Development Team - SMG Studio/Fictions
PEAK Development Team - Aggro Crab & Landfall/Aggro Crab & Landfall
SPLIT FICTION Development Team - Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts

MUSIC

CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33 Lorien Testard, Alice Duport-Percier – Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Hideo Kojima, Woodkid, Ludvig Forssell - Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
DISPATCH Andrew Arcadi, Skyler Barto - AdHoc Studio/AdHoc Studio
GHOST OF YŌTEI Toma Otowa, Peter Scaturro, Keith Leary - Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
HOLLOW KNIGHT: SILKSONG Christopher Larkin - Team Cherry/Team Cherry
INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE Gordy Haab, Pete Ward, Christoffer Larsson - MachineGames/Bethesda

NARRATIVE

THE ALTERS Tomasz Kisilewicz, Katarzyna Tybinka - 11 spot studios/11 spot studios
BLUE PRINCE Tonda Ros - Dogubomb/Raw Fury
CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33 Guillaume Broche, Jennifer Svedberg-Yen - Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Hideo Kojima, Kenji Yano, Ray Khalastchi - Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE Development Team – MachineGames/Bethesda
KINGDOM COME: DELIVERANCE II Development Team - Warhorse Studios/Deep Silver

NEW INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

THE ALTERS Development Team - 11 spot studios/11 spot studios
ARC RAIDERS Aleksander Grøndal, Stefan Strandberg, Robert Sammelin – Embark Studios/Embark Studios
CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33 Development Team - Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
DISPATCH Pierre Shorette, Dennis Lenart, Nick Herman - AdHoc Studio/AdHoc Studio
SOUTH OF MIDNIGHT Development Team - Compulsion Games/Xbox Game Studios
SPLIT FICTION Development Team - Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts

PERFORMER IN A LEADING ROLE

AARON PAUL arsenic Robert Robertson successful Dispatch - AdHoc Studio/AdHoc Studio
BEN STARR arsenic Verso successful Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
ERIKA ISHII arsenic Atsu successful Ghost Of Yōtei - Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
JENNIFER ENGLISH arsenic Maelle successful Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
TOM MCKAY arsenic Henry Of Skalitz successful Kingdom Come: Deliverance II - Warhorse Studios/Deep Silver
TROY BAKER arsenic Indiana Jones successful Indiana Jones and the Great Circle -MachineGames/Bethesda

PERFORMER IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

ALIX WILTON REGAN arsenic Lea Florence Monad successful Lies Of P: Overture – NEOWIZ/NEOWIZ
CHARLIE COX arsenic Gustave successful Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
JANE PERRY arsenic Lia Cain successful Dead Take - Surgent Studios/Pocketpair Publishing
JEFFREY WRIGHT arsenic Chase successful Dispatch - AdHoc Studio/AdHoc Studio
KIRSTY RIDER arsenic Lune successful Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
TROY BAKER arsenic Higgs successful Death Stranding 2: On The Beach - Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT

ARC RAIDERS Robert Träffe, Martin Singh-Blom - Embark Studios/Embark Studios
DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Hideo Kojima, Akio Sakamoto, Neil Johnson - Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
DOOM: THE DARK AGES Development Team - id Software/Bethesda
GHOST OF YŌTEI Development Team - Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE Development Team – MachineGames/Bethesda
SPLIT FICTION Development Team - Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts

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