Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 wins Greatest Sport on the BAFTAs, however this time another video games acquired to win awards, too

It was one other huge awards present for French RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which beat out some very huge names to assert the coveted Greatest Sport award on the 2026 BAFTA Video games Awards. But it surely wasn’t the large sweep we have seen in previous occasions: The sport was nominated in 10 classes however in the end got here away with simply three wins, a haul matched by superhero journey Dispatch—and it even gave one as much as Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

Three BAFTA wins is totally nothing to sneeze at, particularly when one in every of them is the Greatest Sport biggie, but it surely does come up a little bit quick when in comparison with Clair Obscur’s domination of previous awards reveals. Sandfall Interactive’s first-ever sport gained seven awards on the 2025 Golden Joysticks, matching the document set by Baldur’s Gate 3, after which surpassed the grasp with 9 wins at The Sport Awards the next month. It adopted that up with eight wins out of 9 nominations on the Sport Builders Selection Awards in January.

On the BAFTAs, it beat Arc Raiders, Blue Prince, Dispatch, Ghost of Yotei, and Indiana Jones on the Nice Circle for the title of Greatest Sport; it additionally got here out on high for Greatest Debut Sport, and Jennifer English gained the Greatest Performer in a Main Function class for her portrayal of Maelle.

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However Dying Stranding 2 beat Clair Obscur out for Inventive Achievement, which frankly I am a little bit iffy on, and it additionally misplaced out on Greatest Sport Design to Blue Prince, which I feel is definitely particularly reasonable. Clair Obscur was additionally nominated for Greatest New Mental Property, which went to South of Midnight, and within the Greatest Narrative class it was crushed out by Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2—a little bit little bit of turnabout after Clair Obscur beat out KCD2 in each class at The Sport Awards.

Dispatch was the evening’s different huge BAFTA winner, taking the gold within the Animation, Audio Achievement, and Performer in a Help Function, for Jeffrey Wright. The PlayStation-exclusive Ghost of Yotei gained two awards, for Music and Technical Animation, and Atomfall gained for Greatest British Sport, which I am comfortable about as a result of Atomfall was additionally my private favourite British sport of the 12 months.

The total record of 2026 BAFTA Video games Awards winners is beneath:

Animation – DispatchArtistic Achievement – Dying Stranding 2: On the BeachAudio Achievement – DispatchBest Sport – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33British Sport – AtomfallDebut Sport – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Evolving Sport – No Man’s SkyFamily – Lego PartyFellowship – Ilkka PaananenGame Past Leisure – DespeloteGame Designer – Blue PrinceMultiplayer – Arc RaidersMusic – Ghost of YoteiNarrative – Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2New Mental Property – South of MidnightPerformer in a Main Function – Jennifer English (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)Performer in a Supporting Function – Jeffrey Wright (Dispatch)Technical Achievement – Ghost of Yotei