On Tuesday, BAFTA announced its longlist for the 2026 BAFTA Games Awards. More than 1,700 BAFTA members — all games industry professionals — selected 64 games from a collection of 255 titles released between Nov. 16, 2024, and Nov. 14, 2025. The peer-selected games will now compete for nominations across the ceremony’s 17 categories, including Best Game. BAFTA members will begin voting for “Best Game” and “British Game” nominations in February 2026, with specialist BAFTA juries voting for the remaining categories. BAFTA Games Awards winners will be announced at the 2026 BAFTA Games Awards on Friday, April 17, 2026. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts presented its inaugural Games Awards in 2004, with 20 ceremonies held since.
“The BAFTA Games Awards longlists offers a fantastic opportunity to spotlight the creativity and craft shaping this year’s games, ahead of nominations,” BAFTA’s Games committee chair Tara Saunders said in a news release. “It’s a moment to acknowledge the breadth of remarkable work recognised by our wonderful BAFTA games members – 1,700 industry professionals whose expertise and passion continue to drive the games industry forward. This list showcases a wide range of games to dive into over the holiday season, honours the teams behind these standout titles, and shines a light on the incredible skill across our whole industry.”
2026 BAFTA Games Awards Categories
The BAFTA Games Awards categories run the gamut, honoring stellar works from studios worldwide. All 64 games on the BAFTA longlist, listed here in alphabetical order, will compete for distinctions across these 17 categories:
- Animation
- Artistic Achievement
- Audio Achievement
- Best Game
- British Game
- Debut Game
- Evolving Game
- Family
- Game Beyond Entertainment
- Game Design
- Multiplayer
- Music
- Narrative
- New Intellectual Property
- Performer in a Leading Role
- Performer in a Supporting Role
- Technical Achievement
2026 BAFTA Games Awards Longlist
With The Game Awards 2025 set to air on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2025, the year’s best AAA and independent titles have been at the forefront of gamers’ and experts’ minds. “Celebrating creative excellence in video games, and the people who make them, everything on this longlist has been voted for by our passionate BAFTA Games membership community,” the BAFTA website reads. “Together the list is a celebration of imagination and creativity and shows the extraordinary breadth of talent, passion and ambition in the sector.”
The official BAFTA longlist also addresses eligibility for remakes and remasters, saying that “remasters of games originally released outside of the eligibility period are not eligible for consideration; full remakes are eligible in craft categories only.” For more eligibility details, check out the Games Awards Information page.
Check out all 64 games that could go home with at least one BAFTA in Spring 2026:
- Absolum
- Age of Empires
- The Alters
- And Roger
- Arc Raiders
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows
- Atomfall
- Ball x Pit
- Battlefield 6
- Blue Prince
- Borderlands 4
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Consume Me
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Date Everything!
- Dead Take
- Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
- Despelote
- Dispatch
- Donkey Kong Bananza
- DOOM: The Dark Ages
- Dune Awakening
- EA Sports FC 26
- Elden Ring Nightreign
- The Elder Scrolls Online
- F1 25
- Fallout 76
- Ghost of Yotei
- Hades II
- Helldivers 2
- HITMAN
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
- Is This Seat Taken?
- Jurassic World Evolution 3
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- LEGO PARTY!
- Lies of P: Overture
- Little Nightmares III
- Mafia: The Old Country
- Mario Kart World
- Marvel Rivals
- The Midnight Walk
- Monument Valley 3
- No Man’s Sky
- PEAK
- Pokemon Legends Z-A
- PowerWash Simulator 2
- The Rogue Prince of Persia
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl
- Sea of Thieves
- Silent Hill F
- Sonic Racing: Crossworlds
- South of Midnight
- Split Fiction
- Still Wakes the Deep: Siren’s Rest
- Sword of the Sea
- Tiny Bookshop
- Vampire Survivors
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
- Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine 2
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