The prestigious Bafta Games Awards is almost here, celebrating milestone achievements in video games, across a plethora of categories. 2025’s iteration of the same features over 10 sub categories, with a strong list of contenders this time around.
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II is one of the more popular choices this time around, but it is curiously omitted from the Best Game subcategory, which is quite the unfortunate surprise. However, this isn’t exactly the end of the world, and Hellblade II might still have a fair shot at winning other awards along the way.
Senua’s Saga Hellblade II could win more than a few awards during the BAFTA Games Awards of 2025
Despite not being nominated for the prestigious Best Game award at the BAFTA Games Awards 2025, Senua’s Saga Hellblade II has made its presence quite noticeable, when we take into consideration that it has 10 nominations across other categories.
It was nominated for the following categories:
- Artistic Achievement
- Audio Achievement
- British Game
- Games Beyond Entertainment
- Music
- Narrative
- Performer In A Leading Role
- Performer In A Supporting Role
- Technical Achievement
In particular, the game has been nominated for both Artistic Achievement and Audio Achievement, which it should easily manage to bag. After all, Hellblade II is an audio-visual masterpiece.
The game makes full use of surround sound and vividly depicts the effects of schizophrenia intermixed with an intriguing Norse backdrop to go along with it. The effect is an immersive storytelling experience like no other, and one that far surpasses the first game.
While it is most certainly unfortunate that Senua’s Saga Hellblade II didn’t really manage to be nominated for Best Game, it still remains a pretty solid game to experience. Additionally, given its staggering 10 nominations, it is most certainly going to bag a few awards and wholeheartedly deserves it.
Hellblade II is a great game, but it was unfortunately released in a year with multiple blockbuster releases. The game also has a few flaws, especially with regards to its combat and pacing – which makes having other stronger contenders take its place feel a lot more fair.
Other competitors for the coveted Best Game award
The much coveted Best Game award for Bafta consists of multiple blockbuster titles from 2024, with entries such as Astro Bot, Balatro and Black Myth: Wukong making it. Competition seems to be quite tough this time around, and it is quite refreshing to see entries other than your usual AAA blockbusters make their way through.
Balatro is a welcome surprise, and deserves all the credit it gets, for being a deceptively simple game that still manages to keep things entertaining, drawing in hours of gameplay.
Black Myth Wukong, despite being a AAA title, is still quite impressive, as is Astro Bot.
In general, 2024 has been a great year for video games, and so has been 2025, thus far.
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