BAFTA Games Awards 2024: Longlist of nominees revealed

The longlist of the best games of 2023 has been revealed by BAFTA. Did your favourite make the cut?

By Toby Saunders

Published: Friday, 15 December 2023 at 13:10 PM

We’re thick in the middle of awards season, and the BAFTA Games Awards 2024 longlist of nominations have been revealed!

Sixty games are up for BAFTA awards this year across 17 different categories. All of the 60 games are nominated for at least one award, but several do lead the pack in longlist noms.

Baldur’s Gate 3, which won best game at The Game Awards, has 11 nominations and leads the line-up. Alan Wake 2 is just behind, with 10 nominations.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Hogwarts Legacy all have nine to round out the top ‘three’.

All those longlist nominations are great and all, but when is the BAFTA Games Awards 2024 event being held?

Read on for the full longlist of BAFTA Games Awards nominees, and to discover when the event is taking place.

When is the BAFTA Games Awards 2024?

The BAFTA Games Awards 2024 event will take place on Thursday 11th April 2024, it has been confirmed.

We will find out which game wins what award on 11th April, in what’s sure to be an evening full of all the glitz and glamour one would expect from an awards show.

Ahead of the show in April 2024, BAFTA has revealed a longlist of 60 games up for awards in this year’s event.

The longlist has been put together from votes by over 1,200 BAFTA members and “experienced games professionals from across the global industry”, according to a press release.

In January 2024, the longlist for the Best Game and Best British Game categories will be whittled down by further votes for the final list of nominations.

“BAFTA juries will decide the nominations in the other 15 categories. The nominations will be announced on Thursday 7th March.”

Finally, “Following the nominations, BAFTA’s games members will vote for the winners in Best Game and British Game, and juries will vote for the winners in the other categories.”

For now, though, here’s the longlist of BAFTA Games Awards nominees.

Full longlist of BAFTA Games Awards nominees

Sixty games have been nominated for an award across 17 different categories. Here is the full longlist of BAFTA Games Awards nominees by categories:

Best Animation

Artistic Achievement

Audio Achievement

Best Game

Game Design

Best Music

Best Narrative

Technical Achievement