BAFTA Games Awards 2022: Comeback blows everyone away

Finnish studio Housemarque’s Returnal has won four awards, including Best Game of the Year, at the 2022 BAFTA Games Awards.

PlayStation Studios, represented by Housemarque and Insomniac Games, has won six awards from Sony Interactive Entertainment at the 2022 BAFTA Games Awards thanks to its Returnal and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart PS5 exclusives.

BAFTA Games Awards 2022 Winners

british game

• Forza Horizon 5 Playgrounds
• Alba: Wildlife Adventure – Ustwo Games
• Door of Death – Acid Nerve
• Fighting in a confined space – the splitting of the earth
• Overboard! — John Ingold, Tom Cale, Joseph Humphrey (Inkle)
• Sand – Sheds

Animation

• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart – Insomniac Games
• Call Of Duty: Vanguard – Sledgehammer Games
• It Takes Two – Hazelight Studios
• Kena: Bridge ff Spirits – Hunter Schmidt (Ember Lab)
• Life is Strange: True Colors – Deck Nine Games
• Psychonauts 2 – Double Fine Productions

Audio achievement

• Return – Housemarque
• Masterful Escape – Beethoven and the Dinosaur
• Call of Duty: Vanguard – Sledgehammer Games
• Loop of Death – Arkane Studios, Lyon
• Halo Infinite – 343 Industries
• Guardians of the Marvel Galaxy – Eidos Montreal

Debut game

• Tom – Something we did
• Masterful Escape – Beethoven and the Dinosaur
• East – Peekspil
• Dire Maul – Nick Pierce, Alexander Goss, John Eyre (Modern Narrator)
• Genesis Black – Evan Anthony, Jeremy Abel (Feral Cat Den)
• Model – Graceful Decay

Evolving game

• No Man’s Sky – hello games
• Among Us – Innersloot
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo
• Apex Legends – Respawn Entertainment
• Disco Elysium: The Final Cut – ZA/UM
• Fortnite – epic games

Family

• Chicory: A Colorful Tale – Greg Lobanov, Sink in the Pit, Madeleine Berger, Alexis Dean-Jones, Lena Reine (Finji)
• Alba: Wildlife Adventure – Ustwo Games
• Forza Horizon 5 Playgrounds
• Mario Party Superstars-Nintendo
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart – Insomniac Games
• Unboxing – Ren Brier, Tim Dawson, Jeff Van Dyke (Witch Beam)

Game Beyond Entertainment

• Before your eyes – Goodbyeworld Games
• Alba: Wildlife Adventure – Ustwo Games
• Chicory: A Colorful Tale – Greg Lobanov, Sink in the Pit, Madeleine Berger, Alexis Dean-Jones, Lena Reine (Finji)
• Game Builder’s Garage – Nintendo
• It Takes Two – Hazelight Studios
• Psychonauts 2 – Double Fine Productions

Multiplayer

• It Takes Two – Hazelight Studios
• Back 4 Blood – Turtle Rock Studios
• Call of Duty: Vanguard – Sledgehammer Games
• Forza Horizon 5 Playgrounds
• Halo Infinite – 343 Industries
• Hell Let Loose – Black Matter

Music

• Return – Bobby Krlick, Joe Thwaites, Harry Krueger (Housemarque)
• Deathloop – Tom Salta, Erich Talaba, Ross Tregenza (Arkane Studios Lyon)
• Far Cry 6 – Ubisoft Toronto
• Halo Infinite – 343 Industries
• Psychonauts 2 – Peter McConnell (Double Fine Productions)
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart – Scott Hanau, Wataru Hokoyama, Mark Mothersbaugh (Insomniac Games)

Narration

• Unboxing – Ren Brier, Tim Dawson, Annie Vandermeer (Witch Beam)
• It Takes Two – Hazelight Studios
• Life is Strange: True Colors – Deck Nine Games
• Guardians of the Marvel Galaxy – Eidos Montreal
• Psychonauts 2 — Tim Schafer (Double Fine Productions)
• Return – Housemarque

Source Property

• It Takes Two – Hazelight Studios
• Loop of Death – Arkane Studios, Lyon
• Door of Death – Acid Nerve
• Registration – Daniel Mullins Games
• Return – Housemarque
• Unboxing – Ren Brier, Tim Dawson, Jeff Van Dyke (Witch Beam)

Technical advances

• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart – Insomniac Games
• Forza Horizon 5 Playgrounds
• Hitman 3 – Interactive IO
• Psychonauts 2 – Double Fine Productions
• Resident Evil Village – Capcom
• Return – Housemarque

Electronic Game of the Year

• Unboxing – Chicory Witch Beam: A Colorful Tale – Greg Lobanov, Sink in the Pit, Madeleine Berger, Alexis Dean-Jones, Lena Reine (Finji)
• Loop of Death – Arkane Studios, Lyon
• Dire Maul – A Modern Storyteller
• It Takes Two – Hazelight Studios
• Metroid Dread – Nintendo and Mercury Steam

Act in a supporting role

• Kimberley Brooks (Hollis Forsyth) in Psychonauts 2
• Laura Bailey (Polina Petrova) in Call of Duty: Vanguard
• Jason Cavalier (Drax) in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
• Maggie Robertson (Lady Dimitrescu) at Resident Evil Village
• Han Soto (Gabe Chen) in Life is Strange: True Colors
• Alex Weiner (Rocket) in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy

Act in the lead role

• Jane Perry (Selena Vassos) in The Return
• Ozioma Akaga (Julianne Blake) in Deathloop
• Jason Kelly (Colt Van “Captain”) in Deathloop
• Jennifer Hale (Rivet) in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• John McLaren (Star-Lord/Peter Quill) in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
• Erika Mori (Alex Chen) in Life is Strange: True Colors