2021’s BAFTA Games nominations are dominated by PlayStation exclusives

The BAFTA Games Awards has announced its nominations for 2021, with Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us: Part 2 up for a record 13 awards.

The Last of Us beats the record set by Control and Death Stranding last year, when both titles were up for 11 awards (but eventually took home just one each).

Overall, the 2021 Games Awards are dominated by PlayStation exclusives. Behind The Last of Us’s 13 nominations is Ghost of Tsushima with ten, Spider-Man: Miles Morales with seven, Dreams with six and Sackboy: A Big Adventure with four. PS5 titles Demon’s Souls and Astro’s Playroom are also nominated.

Supergiant’s critically acclaimed Hades is the most nominated multiplatform game with eight, while Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Mediatonic’s Fall Guys have five nominations each.

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This year’s BAFTA Games Awards will take place via a 90-minute live stream on Thursday, March 25, hosted by journalist Elle Osili-Wood.

BAFTA says this year’s show format will focus on the audience at home, “highlighting the role that games play in our lives and how they have kept us all connected, entertained and inspired over the past year.”

The Awards, including the nominations, are voted for by BAFTA’s global membership, which it says is comprised of “experienced games industry practitioners from a range of backgrounds in game development and production”.

Voting is now open for the EE Game of the Year, the only award voted for by the public. The shortlist is Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Call of Duty: Warzone, Ghost of Tsushima, Hades, The Last of Us Part 2 and Valorant.

2021 BAFTA Games Awards Nominations

ANIMATION

• DOOM ETERNAL
• FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE
• THE LAST OF US PART II
• MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES
• ORI AND THE WILL OF THE WISPS
• SPIRITFARER

ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT

• CYBERPUNK 2077
• DREAMS
• GHOST OF TSUSHIMA
• HADES
• HALF-LIFE: ALYX
• THE LAST OF US PART II

 AUDIO ACHIEVEMENT

• ASTRO’S PLAYROOM
• GHOST OF TSUSHIMA
• HADES
• HALF-LIFE: ALYX
• THE LAST OF US PART II
• MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES

BEST GAME

• ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS
• GHOST OF TSUSHIMA
• HADES
• HALF-LIFE: ALYX
• THE LAST OF US PART II
• MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES

BRITISH GAME

• DREAMS
• F1 2020
• FALL GUYS
• THE LAST CAMPFIRE
• RÖKI
• SACKBOY: A BIG ADVENTURE

DEBUT GAME

• AIRBORNE KINGDOM
• CALL OF THE SEA
• CARRION
• FACTORIO
• THE FALCONEER
• RÖKI

EVOLVING GAME

• DESTINY 2: BEYOND LIGHT
• DREAMS
• FALL GUYS
• FORTNITE
• NO MAN’S SKY
• SEA OF THIEVES

FAMILY

• ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS
• ASTRO’S PLAYROOM
• DREAMS
• FALL GUYS
• MINECRAFT DUNGEONS
• SACKBOY: A BIG ADVENTURE

GAME DESIGN

• ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS
• ASTRO’S PLAYROOM
• GHOST OF TSUSHIMA
• HADES
• HALF-LIFE: ALYX
• THE LAST OF US PART II

GAME BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT

• ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS
• BEFORE I FORGET
• DREAMS
• SPIRITFARER
• THE LAST OF US PART II
• TELL ME WHY

MULTIPLAYER

• ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS
• DEEP ROCK GALACTIC
• FALL GUYS
• GHOST OF TSUSHIMA
• SACKBOY: A BIG ADVENTURE
• VALORANT

MUSIC

• GHOST OF TSUSHIMA
• HADES
• THE LAST OF US PART II
• MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES
• ORI AND THE WILL OF THE WISPS
• SACKBOY: A BIG ADVENTURE

NARRATIVE

• ASSASSIN’S CREED VALHALLA
• CYBERPUNK 2077
• GHOST OF TSUSHIMA
• HADES
• KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO: TV EDITION
• MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES

ORIGINAL PROPERTY

• CARRION
• FALL GUYS
• GHOST OF TSUSHIMA
• HADES
• KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO: TV EDITION
• SPIRITFARER

PERFORMER IN A LEADING ROLE

• ASHLEY JOHNSON as Ellie in The Last of Us Part II
• CHERAMI LEIGH as Female V in Cyberpunk 2077
• CODY CHRISTIAN as Cloud Strife in Final Fantasy VII Remake
• DAISUKE TSUJI as Jin Sakai in Ghost of Tsushima
• LAURA BAILEY as Abby in The Last of Us Part II
• NADJI JETER as Miles Morales in Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

PERFORMER IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

• CARLA TASSARA as Judy Alvarez in CYBERPUNK 2077
• JEFFREY PIERCE as Tommy in The Last of Us Part II
• LOGAN CUNNINGHAM as Hades, Achilles, Poseidon, Asterius, Charon, and the Storyteller in Hades
• PATRICK GALLAGHER as Khotun Khan in Ghost of Tsushima
• SHANNON WOODWARD as Dina in The Last of Us Part II
• TROY BAKER as Joel in The Last of Us Part II

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT

• DEMON’S SOULS
• DOOM ETERNAL
• DREAMS
• FLIGHT SIMULATOR
• THE LAST OF US PART II
• MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES