Outer Wilds Wins Best Game at BAFTA Game Awards 2020

Mobius Interactive's Outer Wilds picked up three awards including Best Game at last night's 2020 British Academy Game Awards, with Disco Elysium also sweeping three BAFTAs for Debut Game, Narrative and Music. The 2020 Gaming BAFTAs took place on Thursday evening in a live-streamed event hosted by comedian Dara Ó Briain, a necessary adaptation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Disco Elysium and Outer Wilds were the big winners of the night, with Observation, Death Stranding and Kind Words scooping up awards across the rest of the categories. See the full list of winners below. Winners are marked in red.

Best Game

• Control
• Disco Elysium
• Luigi's Mansion 3
• Outer Wilds
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

British Game

• DiRT Rally 2.0
• Heaven's Vault
• Knights and Bikes
• Observation
• Planet Zoo
• Total War: Three Kingdoms

Artistic Achievement

• Concrete Genie
• Control
• Death Stranding
• Disco Elysium
• Knights and Bikes
• Sayonara Wild Hearts

Audio Achievement

• Ape Out
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
• Control
• Death Stranding
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
• Untitled Goose Game

Debut Game

• Ape Out
• Death Stranding
• Disco Elysium
• Katana ZERO
• Knights and Bikes
• Manifold Garden

Evolving Game

• Apex Legends
• Destiny 2
• Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers
• Fortnite
• No Man's Sky Beyond
• Path of Exile

Family Game

• Concrete Genie
• Knights and Bikes
• Luigi's Mansion 3
• Untitled Goose Game
• Vacation Simulator
• Wattam

Game Beyond Entertainment

• Civilization VI: Gathering Storm
• Death Stranding
• Kind Words (lo-fi chill beats to write to)
• Life Is Strange 2 (Episodes 2-5)
• Neo Cab
• Ring Fit Adventure

Game Design

• Baba Is You
• Control
• Disco Elysium
• Outer Wilds
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
• Wattam

Technical Achievement

• A Plague Tale: Innocence
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
• Control
• Death Stranding
• Metro Exodus
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Multiplayer

• Apex Legends
• Borderlands 3
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
• Luigi's Mansion 3
• Tick Tock: A Tale for Two
• Tom Clancy's The Division 2

Animation

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
• Control
• Death Stranding
• Luigi’s Mansion 3
• Sayonara Wild Hearts
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Music

• Control
• Death Stranding
• Disco Elysium
• Outer Wilds
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
• Wattam

Narrative

• Control
• Disco Elysium
• Life Is Strange 2 (Episodes 2-5)
• Outer Wilds
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
• The Outer Worlds

Original Property

• Baba Is You
• Control
• Death Stranding
• Disco Elysium
• Outer Wilds
• Untitled Goose Game

Performer

• Laura Bailey as Kait Diaz in Gears 5
• Courtney Hope as Jesse Faden in Control
• Logan Marshall-Green as David Smith in Telling Lies
• Gonzalo Martin as Sean Diaz in Life is Strange 2
• Barry Sloane as Captain John Price in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
• Norman Reedus as Sam Porter Bridges in Death Stranding

Performer in a Supporting Role

• Jolene Andersen as Karen Reynolds in Life Is Strange 2
• Sarah Bartholomew as Cassidy in Life Is Strange 2
• Troy Baker as Higgs Monaghan in Death Stranding
• Lea Seydoux as Fragile in Death Stranding
• Martti Suosalo as Ahti the Janitor in Control
• Ayisha Issa as Fliss in The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan

EE Mobile Game of the Year (Public Vote)

• Assemble With Care
• Call of Duty: Mobile
• Dead Man's Phone
• Pokémon Go
• Tangle Tower
• What the Golf?

  For more on last night's big winner Outer Wilds, check out IGN's review of the game, which we called "a true adventure in ways most games never achieve." [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter. 

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