Astro Bot from Team Asobi will have the chance to earn a further eight awards at this April's BAFTA ceremony, with the PS5 exclusive nominated in eight different categories, including the overall Best Game. The BAFTA Awards take place on 8th April 2025, and Astro Bot has the chance to win in the following categories:
- Best Game
- Game Design
- Animation
- Artistic Achievement
- Audio Achievement
- Music
- Family
- Technical Achievement
The fan-favourite PS5 platformer hasn't received the most nominations, however; that accolade goes to Senua's Saga: Hellblade II with 11. The likelihood is, though, that the Xbox, PC title will be ported to PS5 in the future, so PlayStation fans will be able to experience what makes it so great at some point. Since the release of Astro Bot, the game has become the most celebrated platformer of all time, with over 100 GOTY awards — now the BAFTA ceremony presents an opportunity to nudge the number up slightly more.
As for how other PS5, PS4-centric titles got on, Helldivers 2 is nominated for five awards and LEGO Horizon Adventures has picked up four. You can view the list of all BAFTA Awards 2025 nominees through the link, with the overall winners voted for by members of BAFTA that comprise "experienced games industry practitioners from a range of backgrounds in game development and production".
Here's a selection of categories at the BAFTA Awards 2025 and their nominees:
Best Game
- Astro Bot
- Balatro
- Black Myth: Wukong
- Helldivers 2
- Thank Goodness You're Here!
- The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
British Game
- A Highland Song
- LEGO Horizon Adventures
- Paper Trail
- Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
- Still Wakes the Deep
- Thank Goodness You're Here!
Debut Game
- Animal Well
- Balatro
- Pacific Drive
- Tales of Kenzera: ZAU
- Thank Goodness You're Here!
- The Plucky Squire
Game Design
- Animal Well
- Astro Bot
- Balatro
- Helldivers 2
- Tactical Breach Wizards
- The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
[source bafta.org]
Comments 16
The British chauvinism is showing when Thank Goodness you're here is nominated for best game and not Animal Well, Final Fantasy or Metaphor.
@Herculean Perhaps. But it's also not that crazy. Thank Goodness You're Here got an 89 on Metacritic globally, and with it's British humour it's likely it's even more appreciated there likely pushing that up a bit higher. Nothing wrong with that, different countries appreciate different games.
FYI Animal Well was my GOTY, but I haven't played many of the others
Let's get that second Astro Bot sweep 😉
If hellblade wins anything expect a PS5 port announced at the same time.
@Herculean Hahaha, wait until you see the GoTY awards from every Japanese publications for any year since the beginning of video games…
Let’s see now, Famitsu GoTy awards. Oh, yes, 32 titles have been awarded Game of the Year or Co-Goty and 31 of them were Japanese. One was not Japanese, it was Ghost of Tsushima.
Do Brits not like JRPGs? No Rebirth, Metaphor, or Infinite Wealth is wild. SquareEnix needs to do some product placement for Yorkshire Tea in the next FF installment even more over the top than Cup Noodles to secure that next nomination.
@Herculean I’d put Thank Goodness You’re Here above Animal Well and Metaphor and I’m an American.
LEGO Horizon being nominated best anything though is the red flag.
@Jayslow Nah am not keen on them.
@Jayslow nah, last one I really played was ff7 on the ps1 and that bored me long before the end
@Jayslow
If I see the letters JRPG or even just RPG associated with any game it's an instant red flag.
Just my own opinion but I absolutely hate those types of games
Astrobot was my game of the year last year, but it would be nice to see Black Myth finally get some love. Thank Goodness You're Here was hilarious, but not sure how a game where you just kick stuff is a game of the year contender.
Astro Bot was my personal GotY!
thankGoodness is my goty in 2024, and I am chinese! It's pretty good game, and it deserve brits to give attention to it. Also it won't affect the result, unlike Oscar always select english movie to win.
I don't want to @ him, but that first comment makes no sense. In the Best Game category you have a Canadian game, two Japanese games, a Swedish game, a Chinese game, and one British game. That's a great selection of international games, and only one is British and yet somehow that's chauvinism?
@breakneck that's a good point. It's just odd there were many British indie games that are more deserving of the title (Still Wakes the Deep by the Chinese Room comes to mind). I enjoyed Thank Goodness You're Here, but all you do is walk around and push a button to kick things. That's it. Put it up with something like Black Myth Wukong, which I think it a technical marvel, and it makes no sense.
@breakneck same here. Ah well. Take care!
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