The winners of the British Academy Games Awards 2021 have been announced and Supergiant Games' indie hit Hades came out tops in five categories, including best game.

Hades is a roguelike dungeon crawler by the same team behind the equally excellent action RPGs, Bastion and Transistor. It's available for Nintendo Switch and PC.

Hades Limited Edition (Nintendo Switch)

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The Last of Us Part II received two awards, despite being nominated in 13 of 17 categories. Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Horizons won two too, although it was only nominated in five.

Studio director at Media Molecule (Dreams, Little Big Planet), Siobhan Reddy, received a coveted BAFTA fellowship.

You can see the full nominations list below with the winners in bold. You can also watch the 90-minute BAFTA Games Awards 2021 presentation yourself via the video below.

Animation

  • DOOM ETERNAL
  • FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE
  • MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES
  • ORI AND THE WILL OF THE WISPS
  • SPIRITFARER
  • THE LAST OF US PART II

The Last of Us Part II (PS4)

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Artistic achievement

  • CYBERPUNK 2077
  • DREAMS
  • GHOST OF TSUSHIMA
  • HADES
  • HALF-LIFE: ALYX
  • THE LAST OF US PART II

Audio achievement

  • ASTRO’S PLAYROOM
  • GHOST OF TSUSHIMA
  • HADES
  • HALF-LIFE: ALYX
  • MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES
  • THE LAST OF US PART II

Ghost Of Tsushima (PS4)

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Best game

  • ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS
  • GHOST OF TSUSHIMA
  • HADES
  • HALF-LIFE: ALYX
  • MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES
  • THE LAST OF US PART II

British game

  • DREAMS
  • F1 2020
  • FALL GUYS
  • RÖKI
  • SACKBOY: A BIG ADVENTURE
  • THE LAST CAMPFIRE

Sackboy: A Big Adventure - PlayStation 5

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Debut game

  • AIRBORNE KINGDOM
  • CALL OF THE SEA
  • CARRION
  • FACTORIO
  • RÖKI
  • THE FALCONEER

Evolving game

  • DESTINY 2: BEYOND LIGHT
  • DREAMS
  • FALL GUYS
  • FORTNITE
  • NO MAN’S SKY
  • SEA OF THIEVES

Family

  • ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS
  • ASTRO’S PLAYROOM
  • DREAMS
  • FALL GUYS
  • MINECRAFT DUNGEONS
  • SACKBOY: A BIG ADVENTURE

Game beyond entertainment

  • ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS
  • BEFORE I FORGET
  • DREAMS
  • SPIRITFARER
  • TELL ME WHY
  • THE LAST OF US PART II
Animal crossing new horizons

Game design

  • ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS
  • ASTRO’S PLAYROOM
  • GHOST OF TSUSHIMA
  • HADES
  • HALF-LIFE: ALYX
  • THE LAST OF US PART II

Multiplayer

  • ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS
  • DEEP ROCK GALACTIC
  • FALL GUYS
  • GHOST OF TSUSHIMA
  • SACKBOY: A BIG ADVENTURE
  • VALORANT

Music

  • GHOST OF TSUSHIMA
  • HADES
  • MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES
  • ORI AND THE WILL OF THE WISPS
  • SACKBOY: A BIG ADVENTURE
  • THE LAST OF US PART II

Spider Man: Miles Morales (PS5)

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Narrative

  • ASSASSIN’S CREED VALHALLA
  • CYBERPUNK 2077
  • GHOST OF TSUSHIMA
  • HADES
  • KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO: TV EDITION
  • MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES

Original property

  • CARRION
  • FALL GUYS
  • GHOST OF TSUSHIMA
  • HADES
  • KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO: TV EDITION
  • SPIRITFARER

Performer in a leading role

  • ASHLEY JOHNSON as Ellie in The Last of Us Part II
  • CHERAMI LEIGH as Female V in Cyberpunk 2077
  • CODY CHRISTIAN as Cloud Strife in Final Fantasy VII Remake 
  • DAISUKE TSUJI as Jin Sakai in Ghost of Tsushima
  • LAURA BAILEY as Abby in The Last of Us Part II
  • NADJI JETER as Miles Morales in Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Performer in a supporting role

  • CARLA TASSARA as Judy Alvarez in Cyberpunk 2077
  • JEFFREY PIERCE as Tommy in The Last of Us Part II
  • LOGAN CUNNINGHAM as Hades, Achilles, Poseidon, Asterius, Charon, and the Storyteller in Hades 
  • PATRICK GALLAGHER as Khotun Khan in Ghost of Tsushima
  • SHANNON WOODWARD as Dina in The Last of Us Part II
  • TROY BAKER as Joel in The Last of Us Part II

Technical achievement

  • DEMON’S SOULS
  • DOOM ETERNAL
  • DREAMS
  • FLIGHT SIMULATOR
  • MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES
  • THE LAST OF US PART II

 EE game of the year (as voted by the public)

  • ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS
  • CALL OF DUTY: WARZONE
  • GHOST OF TSUSHIMA
  • HADES
  • THE LAST OF US PART II
  • VALORANT