2023 BAFTA Games Awards nominations include 15 nods for God of War: Ragnarok

The nominations for the 2023 BAFTA Games Awards have been announced, and it’s great news for Sony Santa Monica as last year’s God of War: Ragnarok is nominated for 15 of the prestigious prizes.

There’s plenty of competition of course across the eighteen categories of this year’s awards – with the Nordic sequel up in categories like Artistic Achievement, Game Design and Best Game.

NOW READ: God of War Ragnarok Review

There’s plenty of other great games from the last twelve months shortlisted for plenty of awards as well – including Immortality, Stray, Elden Ring and indie hit Vampire Survivors to name but a few.

The winners will be announced during the annual ceremony – which will this year take place on Thursday, March 30 and will be livestreamed online, with details to come closer to the event.

Here then are those nominees in full.

2023 Bafta Games Awards nominations

Animation

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
• God of War: Ragnarok
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
• Sifu
• Stray

Artistic Achievement

• A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Elden Ring
• God of War: Ragnarok
• Immortality
• Pentiment
• Tunic

Audio Achievement

• A Plague Tale: Requiem
• God of War: Ragnarok
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Metal: Hellsinger
• Stray
• Tunic

Best Game

• Cult of the Lamb
• Elden Ring
• God of War: Ragnarok
• Marvel Snap
• Stray
• Vampire Survivors

British Game

• Citizen Sleeper
• OlliOlli World
• Rollerdrome
• Total War: Warhammer III
• Two Point Campus
• Vampire Survivors

NOW READ: A Plague Tale: Requiem Review

Debut Game

• As Dusk Falls
• The Case of the Golden Idol
• Stray
• Trombone Champ
• Tunic
• Vampire Survivors

Evolving Game

• Apex Legends
• Dreams
• The Elder Scrolls Online
• Final Fantasy XIV Online
• Forza Horizon 5
• No Man’s Sky

Family

• Disney Dreamlight Valley
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land
• Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
• Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
• Nintendo Switch Sports
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge

Game Beyond Entertainment

• Citizen Sleeper
• Endling – Extinction is Forever
• Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
• I Was A Teenage Exocolonist
• Not for Broadcast
• We’ll Always Have Paris

Game Design

• Cult of the Lamb
• Elden Ring
• God of War: Ragnarok
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Tunic
• Vampire Survivors

Multiplayer

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
• EA Sports FIFA 23
• Elden Ring
• Overwatch 2
• Splatoon 3
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge

Music

• A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Cuphead – The Delicious Last Course
• Elden Ring
• God of War: Ragnarok
• Stray
• Tunic

Narrative

• A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Citizen Sleeper
• God of War: Ragnarok
• Immortality
• Pentiment
• Stray

NOW READ: Elden Ring review

Original Property

• Citizen Sleeper
• Cult of the Lamb
• Elden Ring
• Sifu
• Stray
• Vampire Survivors

Performer in a Leading Role

• Alain Mesa as Alejandro Vargas in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
• Charlotte McBurney as Amicia in A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Christopher Judge as Kratos in God of War: Ragnarok
• Manon Gage as Marissa Marcel in Immortality
• Siobhan Williams as Laura in The Quarry
• Sunny Suljic as Atreus in God of War: Ragnarok

Performer in a Supporting Role

• Adam J. Harrington as Sindri in God of War: Ragnarok
• Alison Jaye as Alva in Horizon: Forbidden West
• Charlotta Mohlin as The One in Immortality
• Danielle Bisuitti as Freya in God of War: Ragnarok
• Laya Deleon Hayes as Angrboda in God of War: Ragnarok
• Ryan Hurst as Thor in God of War: Ragnarok

Technical Achievement

• Elden Ring
• God of War Ragnarok
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Immortality
• The Last of Us: Part I
• Stray

EE Game of the Year (Voted for by the Public)

• Elden Ring
• God of War: Ragnarok
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Immortality
• Marvel Snap
• Stray

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