The BAFTAs announce banger-packed players choice awards nominees including Baldur’s Gate 3, and Lethal Company

One final chance to show your love for 2023’s biggest hits.

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The player’s choice nominees for the BAFTA game awards have been announced, and feature a wall-to-wall roster of absolute bangers for the public to pick a champion from. As the last major video game awards show for 2023 heavy-hitters, this could be the last chance for some of these games to take home a trophy come April.

Members of the British public can head to the BAFTA website to cast their vote . Sorry Americans, but you need a British phone number to register, which the BAFTAs will also use to sign voters up for a prize draw. The BAFTAs are one of the few good things we have left on misery island so don’t feel too sour.

The games up for voting include:

Fortnite
Cyberpunk 2077
Lethal Company
Baldur’s Gate 3
The Legend of the Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

All fantastic games, all with a good reason to win. Fortnite may seem like the odd one out, but you’ve got to remember some of the banger seasonal updates the game saw in 2023 . Live Service makes strict barriers for a game “of the year” trickier than it was in the past, but how could you not include the rock-band reviving shooter here.

Cyberpunk 2077 also makes a return thanks to the excellent Phantom Liberty expansion which made the game an open-world classic in our eyes. The game has a rocky history that’s for sure, but in 2023 it really did come into its own and reeem itself quality-wise.

The Legend of the Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom kind of got snubbed in the awards season. It was a weird situation - in a year packed for of original releases the sequel didn’t quite get the same amount of critical hype at these sorts of shows. It’s still amazing - the same quality as its predecessor but taken a level higher in terms of player creativity. It’s one of the main reasons to own a Nintendo Switch !

Then there’s Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 , which won big at the DICE awards alongside Baldur’s Gate 3 . Another fantastic sequel, also somewhat overshadowed like Tears of the Kingdom throughout 2023 at events like The Game Awards. But it was a real bar-setter both for super hero games and third person action alike - well worth playing if you somehow missed it.

However, if there are two games I have my money on being top contenders it’s Baldur’s Gate 3 and Lethal Company . You coudn’t get a more distinct duo. Both games shock the video game industry to its core upon release, with Baldur’s Gate 3 capturing hearts with masteful storytelling, brain-melting detail, and untold levels of horniness . Lethal Company is a one-of-a-kind cooperative horror game, doing so much with so little, glued together with talent of the passion of a single developer.

It’ll be a tight race for sure. Me? I’d vote for Baldur’s Gate 3 but I’d feel awfully conflicted doing it. Lethal Company is so special, and I could probably wake up tomorrow and think of a real good arguement for the other four. Let us know what you’d vote for, or if you’ll just roll a dice and let fate decide.