Astro Bot Gets More Reaffirmation How Awesome It Is

Summary

Astro Bot won best game, animation, family game, game design, and audio achievement at BAFTA.
Team Asobi optimized Astro Bot to its limits, pushing for more family-friendly games.
Plans for an Astro Bot movie have been confirmed by PlayStation Productions.

By now, chances are you’ve heard of Team Asobi’s Astro Bot. The platformer has gotten award after award, and has since been making the rounds in gaming news because of just how excellent the game is.

Well, as if the game needed more validation on how great it is, it has now racked up a few more awards!

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Astro Bot Wins Five Awards At BAFTA’s

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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) game awards were held today, and Astro Bot won in the five categories it was nominated in including the most coveted one, the best game award.

Check out the full list of winners (via BBC):

Animation – Astro Bot
Artistic achievement – Neva
Audio achievement – Astro Bot
Best game – Astro Bot
British game – Thank Goodness You’re Here!
Debut game – Balatro
Evolving game – Vampire Survivors
Family – Astro Bot
Fellowship – Yoko Shimomura
Game beyond entertainment – Tales of Kenzera: Zau
Game design – Astro Bot
Multiplayer – Helldivers 2
Music – Helldivers 2
Narrative – Metaphor: ReFantazio
New intellectual property – Still Wakes the Deep
Performer in a leading role – Alec Newman (Still Wakes the Deep)
Performer in a supporting role – Karen Dunbar (Still Wakes the Deep)
Technical achievement – Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II

As you can see, Astro Bot won the best game, the best animation, the best family game, best in game design, and best in audio achievement. If you’ve played Team Asobi’s game, you wouldn’t be surprised to see the title win these categories.

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Astro Bot Pushed PS5 Processing Power “To Its Limits” Claims Dev

According to one of the developers, Team Asobi was optimizing one of Astro Bot’s sections “until the very end.”

Astro Bot’s success was monumental for Sony, as the company’s CEO has publicly said they are pushing for more family-friendly games like it moving forward.

Not only that, but just this weekend, PlayStation Productions’ boss publicly said they are “absolutely'” pushing to make an Astro Bot movie, which is something that makes a lot of sense.

If you’ve yet to try the game out, I suggest you remedy that ASAP. It’s one of the top games on Open Critic, with a “Mighty” rating that has it at an astounding 95 average from over 170 reviews.