Returnal and It Takes Two lead the 2022 BAFTA Games Awards nominations with eight nods each. Both titles have received nominations in categories including Game Design, Narrative, and Best Game.
Other notable nominees include Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, which is up for a total of seven awards, Forza Horizon 5 and Psychonauts 2, which have both received six nominations, and Deathloop.
A total of 39 games have been nominated this year, including the likes of Sable, The Artful Escape, Unpacking, Toem, Marvel's Guardian's of the Galaxy, Inscryption, Eastward, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Genesis Noir, Halo Infinite, and Life is Strange: True Colors.
You can find a select list of nominees below. For the complete rundown, check out the BAFTA website.
Animation
CALL OF DUTY: VANGUARD — Sledgehammer Games/Activision Blizzard
IT TAKES TWO — Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts
KENA: BRIDGE OF SPIRITS — Ember Lab LLC/ Ember Lab LLC
LIFE IS STRANGE: TRUE COLORS — Square Enix, Deck Nine Games/Square Enix
PSYCHONAUTS 2 — Double Fine Productions/Xbox Game Studios
RATCHET & CLANK: RIFT APART — Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Artistic Achievement
THE ARTFUL ESCAPE — Beethoven & Dinosaur/Annapurna Interactive
IT TAKES TWO — Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts
PSYCHONAUTS 2 — Double Fine Productions/Xbox Game Studios
RATCHET & CLANK: RIFT APART — Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment
RESIDENT EVIL VILLAGE — Capcom/Capcom
RETURNAL — Housemarque/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Audio Achievement
THE ARTFUL ESCAPE — Beethoven & Dinosaur/Annapurna Interactive
CALL OF DUTY: VANGUARD — Sledgehammer Games/Activision Blizzard
DEATHLOOP — Arkane Lyon/Bethesda Softworks
HALO INFINITE — 343 Industries/Xbox Game Studios
MARVEL’S GUARDIAN’S OF THE GALAXY — Eidos-Montréal/Square Enix
RETURNAL — Housemarque/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Best Game
DEATHLOOP Development Team – Arkane Lyon/Bethesda Softworks
FORZA HORIZON 5 Development Team – Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios
INSCRYPTION Development Team – Daniel Mullins Games/Devolver Digital
IT TAKES TWO Development Team – Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts
RATCHET & CLANK: RIFT APART Development Team – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment
RETURNAL Development Team – Housemarque/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Debut Game
THE ARTFUL ESCAPE Development Team – Beethoven & Dinosaur/Annapurna Interactive
EASTWARD Development Team – Pixpil/Chucklefish
THE FORGOTTEN CITY Nick Pearce, Alexander Goss, John Eyre – Modern Storyteller/Dear Villagers
GENESIS NOIR Evan Anthony, Jeremy Abel – Feral Cat Den/Fellow Traveller
MAQUETTE Development Team – Graceful Decay/Annapurna Interactive
TOEM Development Team – Something We Made/ Something We Made
Game Design
DEATHLOOP — Arkane Lyon/Bethesda Softworks
FORZA HORIZON 5 — Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios
INSCRYPTION — Daniel Mullins Games/Devolver Digital
IT TAKES TWO — Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts
RATCHET & CLANK: RIFT APART — Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment
RETURNAL — Housemarque/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Multiplayer
BACK 4 BLOOD — Turtle Rock Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
CALL OF DUTY: VANGUARD — Sledgehammer Games/Activision Blizzard
FORZA HORIZON 5 — Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios
HALO INFINITE — 343 Industries/Xbox Game Studios
HELL LET LOOSE — Black Matter/Team17
IT TAKES TWO — Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts
Narrative
IT TAKES TWO — Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts
LIFE IS STRANGE: TRUE COLORS — Square Enix, Deck Nine Games/Square Enix
MARVEL’S GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY — Eidos-Montréal/Square Enix
PSYCHONAUTS 2 — Double Fine Productions/Xbox Game Studios
RETURNAL — Housemarque/Sony Interactive Entertainment
UNPACKING — Witch Beam/Humble Games
Technical Achievement
FORZA HORIZON 5 — Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios
HITMAN 3 — IO Interactive/IO Interactive
PSYCHONAUTS 2 — Double Fine Productions/Xbox Game Studios
RATCHET & CLANK: RIFT APART — Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment
RESIDENT EVIL VILLAGE — Capcom/Capcom
RETURNAL — Housemarque/Sony Interactive Entertainment
EE Game of the Year (voted for by the public)
CHICORY: A COLORFUL TALE — Greg Lobanov, A Shell in the Pit, Madeline Berger, Alexis Dean-Jones, Lena Raine/FINJI
DEATHLOOP — Arkane Lyon/Bethesda Softworks
THE FORGOTTEN CITY — Modern Storyteller/Dear Villagers
IT TAKES TWO — Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts
METROID DREAD — Nintendo & MercurySteam, Nintendo