Clair Obscur, Dispatch, And Ghost Of Yōtei Lead 2026 BAFTA Game Awards Nominations

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards honor the best and brightest across film, television, and video games, and the nominees for the 2026 Game Awards have been revealed. The annual awards show is set to take place on Friday, April 17, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, England (which you can watch on YouTube), and it will celebrate 42 games nominated across 17 categories. 

The highly-celebrated RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads the pack with 12 nominations, followed by the superhero narrative comedy Dispatch at 9 and the open-world action game Ghost of Yōtei at 8. Here is the full list of nominees: 

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Best Game

• Arc Raiders
• Blue Prince
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Dispatch
• Ghost of Yōtei
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Animation

• Battlefield 6
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Dispatch
• Ghost of Yōtei
• Hades II
• Hollow Knight: Silksong

Artistic Achievement

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Dispatch
• Ghost of Yōtei
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• South of Midnight

Arc Raiders

Audio Achievement

• Arc Raiders
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Dispatch
• Ghost of Yōtei
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

British Game

• Atomfall
• Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
• Mafia: The Old Country
• Monument Valley 3
• Powerwash Simulator 2
• Two Point Museum

Debut Game

• Blue Prince
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Consume Me
• Despelote
• Dispatch
• The Midnight Walk

Blue Prince

Evolving Game

• Fallout 76
• Helldivers 2
• Hitman World of Assassination
• No Man’s Sky
• Vampire Survivors
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

Family

• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Is This Seat Taken?
• Lego Party!
• Mario Kart World
• Powerwash Simulator 2
• Two Point Museum

Game Beyond Entertainment

• The Alters
• And Roger
• Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
• Consume Me
• Despelote
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl

Dispatch

Game Design

• Ball x Pit
• Blue Prince
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Ghost of Yotei
• Hades II
• Split Fiction

Multiplayer

• Arc Raiders
• Dune: Awakening
• Elden Ring Nightreign
• Lego party!
• Peak
• Split Fiction

Music

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Dispatch
• Ghost of Yōtei
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Ghost of Yōtei

Narrative

• The Alters
• Blue Prince
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

New Intellectual Property

• The Alters
• Arc Raiders
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Dispatch
• South of Midnight
• Split Fiction

Performer in a Leading Role

• Aaron Paul as Robert Robertson in Dispatch
• Ben Starr as Verso in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Erika Ishii as Atsu in Ghost of Yotei
• Tom McKay as Henry of Skalitz
• Troy Baker as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Performer in a Supporting Role

• Alix Wilton Regan as Lea Florence Monad in Lies of P: Overture
• Charlie Cox as Gustave in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Jeffrey Wright as Chase in Dispatch
• Kirsty Rider as Lune in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Troy Baker as Higgs in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Technical Achievement 

• Arc Raiders
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Doom: The Dark Ages
• Ghost of Yotei
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Split Fiction
   

For more on the BAFTA Game Awards, you can read the winners of the 2025 edition here. 

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