DOOM, Call of Duty, and Silent Hill make it onto the BAFTA Games Award 2026 longlist

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has an entirely different awards ceremony you’ve most likely never heard of.

BAFTA has announced its longlist for the 2026 Games Awards, where members of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts have selected 64 games to progress to the second round of voting.

BAFTA’s 1,700 games members have voted and comprised the longlist for the 2026 games awards

The BAFTAs usually focus on film and television in Britain and internationally. However, the association started its Games Awards back in 2024, which “celebrate creative excellence in video games.”

Those who judge the awards are “experienced games professionals working in the industry,” the association says.

The 64 selected games will progress to round two of voting to decide which games will be nominated.

The nominees will be announced mid-March, and the Games Awards itself will be held on April 17th, 2026.

Around 255 games released between November 2024 and November 2025 were considered for the BAFTA Games Awards.

The gaming professionals will begin judging the 64 games in February 2026.

How do the judges decide on the best game?

When progressing to round two, the games will be judged by BAFTA members to determine six nominations in each category, the BAFTA Games Awards rulebook reads.

Juries that judge the games are comprised of between nine and 12 experts in the gaming industry, led by a member or former member of the games committee.

Those experts are then sent copies of the longlisted games to be played ahead of the meeting, where the longlist will be discussed.

The meeting will decide on six nominations and the overall winner of the BAFTA Games Awards.

“The winner vote is undertaken as a blind vote within the jury, and BAFTA does not reveal information about the winners until it is announced within the ceremony,” the rulebook reads.

What categories make up the BAFTA Games Awards?

BAFTA’s longlist is made up of 17 categories, which include “Best Game” and “British Game.”

The categories included in the rules and guidelines for the upcoming ceremony include:

• Artistic Achievement
• Audio Achievement
• Best Game
• British Game
• Debut Game
• Evolving Game
• Family
• Game Beyond Entertainment
• Game Design
• Multiplayer
• Music
• Narrative
• New Intellectual Property
• Technical Achievement

Finally, onto the longlist itself.

BAFTA Games Awards longlist

Try finding your favourite game among the BAFTA Games Awards 2026, which is listed 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
• Consumer 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 Yotei
• 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
• Pokemon 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
• Swords of the Sea
• The Alters
• The Elder Scrolls Online
• The Midnight Walk
• The Rouge Prince of Persia
• Tiny Bookshop
• Two Point Museum
• Vampire Survivors
• Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

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