Kirby Is Officially A BAFTA Winner, Takes Home Best Family Game

Nintendo and the ‘Best Family Game’ award are bedfellows at this point. And last night’s BAFTA Game Awards continued this trend by awarding Kirby and the Forgotten Land with the trophy. But hey, Kirby is a BAFTA winner now, and that’s pretty cool! (Thanks GamesIndustry.biz.)

Kirby’s 3D adventure had to take on some tough competition to take the award — Nintendo Switch Sports and Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope were also in contention for Nintendo, with Disney Dreamlight Valley, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge also battling it out. But you can’t take down the power of Kirby, it seems.

This was the only win of the night for Nintendo, which had pretty light representation amidst the award categories. Splatoon 3 was up for Best Multiplayer but ultimately lost out to Elden Ring (which won two awards), but that was really it aside from multiplatform games and indie titles.

Tunic, which debuted on Xbox before making its way to Switch last September, won two awards — Artistic Achievement and Debut Game — and Endling: Extinction is Forever won ‘Game Beyond Entertainment’.

The biggest winner was Sony Santa Monica’s God of War: Ragnarok, which won six awards, including the audience-voted EE Game of the Year. However, it was also a night of big surprises, and the jury’s Best Game went to Vampire Survivors, an endless roguelike that is utterly addictive — and we really hope to see it on Switch one day.

Here’s the full list of winners from the BBC:

Best Game – Vampire Survivors
Best British Game – Rollerdrome
Performer in a Leading Role – Christopher Judge as Kratos — God of War: Ragnarok
Performer in a Supporting Role – Laya Deleon Hayes as Angrboða — God of War: Ragnarok
EE Game of the Year – God of War: Ragnarok
Narrative – Immortality
Evolving Game – Final Fantasy XIV
Original Property – Elden Ring
Multiplayer – Elden Ring
Debut Game – Tunic
Game Beyond Entertainment – Endling – Extinction is Forever
Family – Kirby and the Forgotten Land
Animation – God of War: Ragnarok
Game Design – Vampire Survivors
Artistic Achievement – Tunic
Technical Achievement – Horizon Forbidden West
Audio Achievement – God of War: Ragnarok
Music – God of War: Ragnarok