Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 wins Best Game at the BAFTAs, but this time some other games got to win awards, too

It was another big awards show for French RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which beat out some very big names to claim the coveted Best Game award at the 2026 BAFTA Games Awards. But it wasn't the big sweep we've seen in past events: The game was nominated in 10 categories but ultimately came away with just three wins, a haul matched by superhero adventure Dispatch—and it even gave one up to Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

Three BAFTA wins is absolutely nothing to sneeze at, especially when one of them is the Best Game biggie, but it does come up a little short when compared to Clair Obscur's domination of past awards shows. Sandfall Interactive's first-ever game won seven awards at the 2025 Golden Joysticks, matching the record set by Baldur's Gate 3, and then surpassed the master with nine wins at The Game Awards the following month. It followed that up with eight wins out of nine nominations at the Game Developers Choice Awards in January.

At the BAFTAs, it beat Arc Raiders, Blue Prince, Dispatch, Ghost of Yotei, and Indiana Jones at the Great Circle for the title of Best Game; it also came out on top for Best Debut Game, and Jennifer English won the Best Performer in a Leading Role category for her portrayal of Maelle.

But Death Stranding 2 beat Clair Obscur out for Artistic Achievement, which frankly I'm a little iffy on, and it also lost out on Best Game Design to Blue Prince, which I think is actually very fair. Clair Obscur was also nominated for Best New Intellectual Property, which went to South of Midnight, and in the Best Narrative category it was beaten out by Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2—a little bit of turnabout after Clair Obscur beat out KCD2 in every category at The Game Awards.

Dispatch was the night's other big BAFTA winner, taking the gold in the Animation, Audio Achievement, and Performer in a Support Role, for Jeffrey Wright. The PlayStation-exclusive Ghost of Yotei won two awards, for Music and Technical Animation, and Atomfall won for Best British Game, which I'm happy about because Atomfall was also my personal favorite British game of the year.

The full list of 2026 BAFTA Games Awards winners is below:

• Animation - Dispatch
• Artistic Achievement - Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Audio Achievement - Dispatch
• Best Game - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• British Game - Atomfall
• Debut Game - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Evolving Game - No Man's Sky
• Family - Lego Party
• Fellowship - Ilkka Paananen
• Game Beyond Entertainment - Despelote
• Game Designer - Blue Prince
• Multiplayer - Arc Raiders
• Music - Ghost of Yotei
• Narrative - Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
• New Intellectual Property - South of Midnight
• Performer in a Leading Role - Jennifer English (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
• Performer in a Supporting Role - Jeffrey Wright (Dispatch)
• Technical Achievement - Ghost of Yotei