Astro Bot Wins BAFTA 2025’s Best Game Award

Astro Bot was easily one of 2024’s best games, taking home so many awards from various ceremonies and publications that it managed to break records, and it kept that momentum going into 2025. In fact, we’re over three months deep into the year and Astro Bot is still sweeping awards ceremonies, as now it’s had a strong showing during BAFTA Games 2025.

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Out of the 17 total categories, Astro Bot was nominated in 8 of them, and managed to take home five awards in total, the most prestigious of them all being Best Game. On top of that, it also managed to win awards for Animation, Audio Achievement, Family, and Game Design. It was nominated for pretty much every award it could be.

Every Winner At BAFTA Games 2025

Outside of Astro Bot, it was also a strong showing for Still Wakes the Deep and Helldivers 2. Here’s every category during the show, the nominees, and eventual winners:

Animation

• Astro Bot (Winner)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
• Lego Horizon Adventures
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Thank Goodness You’re Here!
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

Artistic Achievement

• Neva (Winner)
• Astro Bot
• Black Myth: Wukong
• Harold Halibut
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Still Wakes the Deep

Audio Achievement

• Astro Bot (Winner)
• Animal Well
• Helldivers 2
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Star Wars Outlaws
• Still Wakes the Deep

Best Game

• Astro Bot (Winner)
• Balatro
• Black Myth: Wukong
• Helldivers 2
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
• Thank Goodness You’re Here!

British Game

• Thank Goodness You’re Here! (Winner)
• A Highland Song
• Lego Horizon Adventures
• Paper Trail
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Still Wakes the Deep

Debut Game

• Balatro (Winner)
• Animal Well
• Pacific Drive
• The Plucky Squire
• Tails of Kenzera: ZAU
• Thank Goodness You’re Here!

Evolving Game

• Vampire Survivors (Winner)
• Diablo 4
• Final Fantasy 14
• No Man’s Sky
• Sea of Thieves
• World of Warcraft

Family

• Astro Bot (Winner)
• Cat Quest 3
• Lego Horizon Adventures
• Little Kitty, Big City
• The Plucky Squire
• Super Mario Party Jamboree

Game Beyond Entertainment

• Tales of Kenzera: ZAU (Winner)
• Botany Manor
• Kind Words 2
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Tetris Forever
• Vampire Therapist

Game Design

• Astro Bot (Winner)
• Animal Well
• Balatro
• Helldivers 2
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
• Tactical Breach Wizards

Multiplayer

• Helldivers 2 (Winner)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
• Lego Horizon Adventures
• Super Mario Party Jamboree
• Tekken 8
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

Music

• Helldivers 2 (Winner)
• Astro Bot
• Black Myth: Wukong
• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Star Wars Outlaws

Narrative

• Metaphor: ReFantazio (Winner)
• Black Myth: Wukong
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard
• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Still Wakes the Deep

New Intellectual Property

• Still Wakes the Deep (Winner)
• Animal Well
• Balatro
• Black Myth: Wukong
• Metaphor ReFantazio
• Thank Goodness You’re Here!

Performer In A Leading Role

• Alec Newman – Still Wakes the Deep (Winner)
• Humberley Gonzalez – Star Wars Outlaws
• Isabella Inchbald – Indika
• Luke Roberts – Silent Hill 2
• Melina Juergens – Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Y’lan Noel – Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Performer In A Supporting Role

• Karen Dunbar – Still Wakes the Deep (Winner)
• Abbi Greenland/ Helen Goalen – Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Aldis Amah Hamilton – Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Jon Blyth – Thank Goodness You’re Here!
• Matt Berry – Thank Goodness You’re Here!
• Michael Abubakar – Still Wakes the Deep

Technical Achievement

• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 (Winner)
• Astro Bot
• Black Myth: Wukong
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
• Tiny Glade
• Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine 2

There are all your nominees and winners. Special shout out to Black Myth: Wukong, which was nominated for a whopping six awards, but sadly came away with nothing. At least you’re the champion of the people, and surely that’s what matters most, right?

Astro Bot

Systems

5.0/5

Released

September 6, 2024

ESRB

E10+ For Everyone 10+ Due To Crude Humor, Fantasy Violence

Developer(s)

Team Asobi

Publisher(s)

Sony Interactive Entertainment

Engine

Proprietary Engine