Giant Sparrow’s inventive first-person adventure What Remains of Edith Finch took home the BAFTA for Best Game at a swish ceremony in London today. The game – a series of vignettes about a slew of untimely family deaths – also scored highly here at Push Square, where we awarded it a 10/10 at release. The sophomore effort from Ian Dallas et al fought off Assassin’s Creed Origins, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Horizon: Zero Dawn, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Super Mario Odyssey.
There was recognition for Guerrilla Games’ inaugural open world effort, as it took home the award for Original Property. Cambridge-based developer Ninja Theory was the biggest winner on the night, however, scooping five awards for Artistic Achievement, Audio Achievement, British Game, Game Beyond Entertainment, and Performer. We’ve included the full list of winners across all of the categories below.
BAFTA Games Award 2018 Winners
- Best Game: What Remains of Edith Finch
- Artistic Achievement: Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
- Audio Achievement: Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
- British Game: Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
- Debut Game: Gorogoa
- Evolving Game: Overwatch
- Family: Super Mario Odyssey
- Game Beyond Entertainment: Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
- Game Design: Super Mario Odyssey
- Game Innovation: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Mobile: Golf Clash
- Multiplayer: Divinity Original Sin 2
- Music: Cuphead
- Narrative: Night in the Woods
- Original Property: Horizon: Zero Dawn
- Performer: Melina Juergens – Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
How are you feeling about these winners? Do you agree with the list, or do you think a game got robbed? Try not to get too angry in the comments section below.
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Seems like a good list of winners to me.
Congratulations to all the winners; it's a solid list, and whilst I'd personally like to see a few more gongs awarded to Horizon, I can't argue with the overall spread (and I'm posting on a PlayStation-centric site, so go figure).
Horizon is and will always be my 2017 GOTY. That said pretty solid list. Hellblade might be the best use of Audio of any game I have ever played.
All of them trash compared to Persona 5. An outrage.
@ShogunRok
Edith Finch was definitely my GOTY for 2017, followed closely by Horizon. Totally different experiences, both brilliant.
Hellblade is actually my next game, I'll probably bash it out over the upcoming weekend. I've been looking forward to it!
Well deserved. Nice to see some props for Edith Finch. I really need to play Hellblade.
@ShogunRok Too much flair and style for those snobs I tell ya!
Evolving game?
The case has just sprung a limb and self awareness. Now its trying to mate with the wii games at the back of the cupboard out of pity.
On 2017s awards I am still gutted Statik gets overlooked, in a flipping year when Mario Odyssey gets best game design! If Valve or Blizzard had their name attached it would be heralded as the best game ever.
Bafta just proved it's own uselessness by putting a average walking simulator above BoTW. What a joke... But kudos to Ninja Theory, they deserved every award they got
@ShogunRok YOUR GAME ISN'T BETTER THAN MY GAME
awesome awesome awesome glad to see that, wondering what Giant Sparrow are up to next!
Evolving Game?
@ShogunRok P5 was too Japane-sy for the BAFTAs.
@Link41 I sure wish deadset gorgeous text animation and music was all around me when I walked!
well deserved =)
Edith Finch, well deserved, fantastic storytelling.
I don't really get 'Divinity Original Sin 2' winning the Multiplayer award though, since it is predominantly a single-player game.
Top list!
Nothing for Nier: Automata? Best game of last year hands down far as I'm concerned.
Delighted for Ninja Theory!
Persona 5 is obviously better than everything on this list.
But yes. I approve of Edith Finch winning. It's a terrific game that completely redefines what a dun-dun-duuuuuuun walking simulator can be, while telling a really engrossing story, and loads of other superlatives that I can't be bothered to write.
It wasn't though, very good but not the best, I'm glad Cuphead got the award for Music.
I’m so happy Hell Blade is getting the recognition it deserves. I’ve never played a game that left me feeling the way that one did. The sound is without question the best I’ve ever heard in a game, also the best use of sound. The graphics were gorgeous. The story was incredible. The gameplay may not have been the best I’ve played, but it was fun and fluid. It deserves everything it wins. Ive actually been considering playing it again soon, I just wish NNK2, FC5, and GoW4 we’re spread a bit further apart than they were so I’d have time for all of them and another playthrough of Hell Blade!!!
I enjoyed the 140+ hours I put into P5 but I was much more moved in the 4 hours I played of What Remains Of Edith Finch. Bloody cracking walking sim that is. Well deserved.
In my opinion, and everyone has one, the Best evolving game is No Man’s Sky! They have done a great job and continue to do so.
@Bonbonetti Playing a 100 hour Co-op adventure of DOS2 with my friends was one of the most memorable multiplayer experiences I've ever had. There was laughter, salt, confusion, more laughter, more salt, and genuine "wtf" moments that I haven't seen elsewhere in a co-op game. Very deserving of that award!
@themcnoisy Statik is a great game and it does seem odd the Odyssey wins for game design when it's basically Mario 64 2, great game but nothing new. Same with Zelda for innovation, everything in that game has been done before somewhere else.
Not sure what an evolving game is but my personal favourite game from last year is Yakuza 0, with Mario Odyssey, Horizon, Persona 5 and Resident Evil 7 all in the mix
@RedMageLanakyn Fair enough, I just imagined it being more single-player oriented, haven't played it myself.
Oh wow a grand total of 2 Japanese games in a year full of strong releases. But then again it is Laughta we are talking about.
Happy for Hellblade though.
controversial winners in both the best game and the most evolved. Overwatch hasn't evolved - its giving more of the same - compared to games like Fortnight and even Seige.
Edith Finch though was up against games like AC: Origins, Hellblade, H:ZD, Mario Odyssey and Zelda - all of which had much better 'game-play'
@BAMozzy That's what I was going to say. Played OW for almost 15 months. During that time, Blizzard mainly just added new characters, maps and the odd events (different modes) here and there.
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