# British Academy Games Award for Intellectual Property

The British Academy Video Games Award for New Intellectual Property is an award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). It is given in honor to "the best game which is not part of an established series and represents a new intellectual property".
The award was first presented at the 2nd British Academy Games Awards as Originality, after which the category was discontinued. It was revived in 2015 at the 11th edition, when it was presented as Original Property. The category received its current name at the 20th British Academy Games Awards.:
To date, no developer has won this award more that once. Nintendo EAD are the only developers with two nominations in the category and therefore have the most nominations without a win. Among publishers, Sony Interactive Entertainment has a leading eight nominations and two wins, tied with Annapurna Interactive for most wins. Devolver Digital has the most nominations without a win, with five.
The current holder of the award is Elden Ring by FromSoftware and Bandai Namco Studios, which won at the 19th British Academy Games Awards in 2023.

## Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years are listed as per BAFTA convention, and generally correspond to the year of game release in the United Kingdom.
Table key :
* Indicates the winner

### Originality

| Year | Game | Developer(s) | Publisher(s) |
| 2003/04 (2nd) | SingStar / SingStar Party | London Studio | Sony Computer Entertainment |
| 2003/04 (2nd) | Animal Crossing | Nintendo EAD | Nintendo |
| 2003/04 (2nd) | Donkey Konga | Namco | Nintendo |
| 2003/04 (2nd) | Fable | Big Blue Box Studios and Lionhead Studios | Microsoft Game Studios |
| 2003/04 (2nd) | Second Sight | Free Radical Design | Codemasters |
| 2003/04 (2nd) | Sid Meier's Pirates! | Firaxis Games | Atari |

### Original Property

| Year | Game | Developer(s) | Publisher(s) |
| 2014 (11th) | Valiant Hearts: The Great War | Ubisoft Montpellier | Ubisoft |
| 2014 (11th) | Kalimba | Press Play | Microsoft Studios |
| 2014 (11th) | Sunset Overdrive | Insomniac Games | Microsoft Studios |
| 2014 (11th) | Monument Valley | ustwo Games | ustwo Games |
| 2014 (11th) | Titanfall | Respawn Entertainment | Electronic Arts |
| 2014 (11th) | The Vanishing of Ethan Carter | The Astronauts | The Astronauts |
| 2015 (12th) | Until Dawn | Supermassive Games | Sony Computer Entertainment |
| 2015 (12th) | Everybody's Gone to the Rapture | The Chinese Room and Santa Monica Studio | Sony Computer Entertainment |
| 2015 (12th) | Her Story | Sam Barlow | Sam Barlow |
| 2015 (12th) | Life Is Strange | Dontnod Entertainment | Square Enix |
| 2015 (12th) | Ori and the Blind Forest | Moon Studios | Microsoft Studios |
| 2015 (12th) | Splatoon | Nintendo EAD | Nintendo |
| 2016 (13th) | Inside | Playdead | Playdead |
| 2016 (13th) | Firewatch | Campo Santo | Panic |
| 2016 (13th) | The Last Guardian | Japan Studio | Sony Interactive Entertainment |
| 2016 (13th) | Overwatch | Blizzard Entertainment | Blizzard Entertainment |
| 2016 (13th) | Unravel | Coldwood Interactive | Electronic Arts |
| 2016 (13th) | The Witness | Thekla, Inc. | Thekla, Inc. |
| 2017 (14th) | Horizon Zero Dawn | Guerrilla Games | Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe |
| 2017 (14th) | Cuphead | Studio MDHR | Studio MDHR |
| 2017 (14th) | Gorogoa | Jason Roberts | Annapurna Interactive |
| 2017 (14th) | What Remains of Edith Finch | Giant Sparrow | Annapurna Interactive |
| 2017 (14th) | Night in the Woods | InfiniteFall | Finji |
| 2017 (14th) | PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds | PUBG Corp | Bluehole, Inc. |
| 2018 (15th) | Into the Breach | Subset Games | Subset Games |
| 2018 (15th) | Dead Cells | Motion Twin | Motion Twin |
| 2018 (15th) | Florence | Mountains | Annapurna Interactive |
| 2018 (15th) | Moss | Polyarc | Polyarc |
| 2018 (15th) | Return of the Obra Dinn | Lucas Pope | 3909 |
| 2018 (15th) | Subnautica | Unknown Worlds Entertainment | Unknown Worlds Entertainment |
| 2019 (16th) | Outer Wilds | Mobius Digital | Annapurna Interactive |
| 2019 (16th) | Baba Is You | Hempuli | Hempuli |
| 2019 (16th) | Control | Remedy Entertainment | 505 Games |
| 2019 (16th) | Death Stranding | Kojima Productions | Sony Interactive Entertainment |
| 2019 (16th) | Disco Elysium | ZA/UM | ZA/UM |
| 2019 (16th) | Untitled Goose Game | House House | Panic |
| 2020 (17th) | Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition | Cardboard Computer | Annapurna Interactive |
| 2020 (17th) | Carrion | Phobia Game Studio | Devolver Digital |
| 2020 (17th) | Fall Guys | Mediatonic | Devolver Digital |
| 2020 (17th) | Ghost of Tsushima | Sucker Punch Productions | Sony Interactive Entertainment |
| 2020 (17th) | Hades | Supergiant Games | Supergiant Games |
| 2020 (17th) | Spiritfarer | Thunder Lotus | Kowloon Nights |
| 2021 (18th) | It Takes Two | Hazelight Studios | Electronic Arts |
| 2021 (18th) | Deathloop | Arkane Studios | Bethesda Softworks |
| 2021 (18th) | Death's Door | Acid Nerve | Devolver Digital |
| 2021 (18th) | Inscryption | Daniel Mullins Games | Devolver Digital |
| 2021 (18th) | Returnal | Housemarque | Sony Interactive Entertainment |
| 2021 (18th) | Unpacking | Witch Beam | Humble Bundle |
| 2022 (19th) | Elden Ring | FromSoftware | Bandai Namco |
| 2022 (19th) | Cult of the Lamb | Massive Monster | Devolver Digital |
| 2022 (19th) | Citizen Sleeper | Jump Over the Age | Fellow Traveller |
| 2022 (19th) | Sifu | Sloclap | Sloclap |
| 2022 (19th) | Stray | BlueTwelve | Annapurna Interactive |
| 2022 (19th) | Vampire Survivors | Poncle | Poncle |

## Multiple nominations and wins
### Developers

| Developer | Nominations | Wins |
| Nintendo EAD | 2 | 0 |

### Publishers

| Developer | Nominations | Wins |
| Sony Computer/Interactive Entertainment | 8 | 2 |
| Annapurna Interactive | 6 | 2 |
| Devolver Digital | 5 | 0 |
| Microsoft/Xbox Game Studios | 4 | 0 |
| Electronic Arts | 3 | 1 |
| Nintendo | 3 | 0 |
| Panic | 2 | 0 |