BAFTA has announced the longlist for the 2026 BAFTA Games Awards, consisting of 64 games selected by more than 1,700 BAFTA members and games industry professionals. A total of 255 games released between 16 November 2024 and 14 November 2025 were considered this year, with each of the final 64 longlisted games now in the running for at least one BAFTA nomination across 17 categories.
Tara Saunders, chair of BAFTA’s Games committee, said: “The BAFTA Games Awards longlists offers a fantastic opportunity to spotlight the creativity and craft shaping this year’s games, ahead of nominations on 12 March. 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.”
Founded in 2004, the BAFTA Games Awards is the industry’s most prestigious Awards created to celebrate creative excellence in video games and the people who make them, as voted by their peers. The nominations for the 2026 BAFTA Games Awards will be announced on 12th March and the winners will be announced on 17th April 2026.
Here is the longlist for the ‘Best Game’ category in alphabetical order:
- ARC Raiders
- Blue Prince
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
- Dispatch
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Hades II
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
- Split Fiction
Here is the complete 2026 BAFTA Games Awards longlist, in alphabetical order:
- Absolum
- Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
- 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!
- Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
- Dead Take
- despelote
- Dispatch
- Donkey Kong Bananza
- DOOM: The Dark Ages
- Dune: Awakening
- EA SPORTS FC 26
- ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN
- F1 25
- Fallout 76
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Hades II
- Helldivers 2
- Hitman World of Assassination
- 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
- Monument Valley 3
- No Man’s Sky
- PEAK
- Pokémon Legends: Z-A
- PowerWash Simulator 2
- 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
- The Alters
- The Elder Scrolls Online
- The Midnight Walk
- The Rogue Prince of Persia
- Tiny Bookshop
- Two Point Museum
- Vampire Survivors
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
