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 South of Midnight by Compulsion Games and Xbox Game Studios, which won at the 22nd British Academy Games Awards in 2026.
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 keyIndicates the winner Originality YearGameDeveloper(s)Publisher(s)2003/04 (2nd) SingStar / SingStar Party London Studio Sony Computer Entertainment Animal Crossing Nintendo EAD Nintendo Donkey Konga Namco Fable Big Blue Box Studios and Lionhead Studios Microsoft Game Studios Second Sight Free Radical Design Codemasters Sid Meier's Pirates! Firaxis Games Atari Original Property YearGameDeveloper(s)Publisher(s)2014 (11th) Valiant Hearts: The Great War Ubisoft Montpellier Ubisoft Kalimba Press Play Microsoft Studios Sunset Overdrive Insomniac Games Monument Valley ustwo Games Titanfall Respawn Entertainment Electronic Arts The Vanishing of Ethan Carter The Astronauts2015 (12th) Until Dawn Supermassive Games Sony Computer Entertainment Everybody's Gone to the Rapture The Chinese Room and Santa Monica Studio Sony Computer Entertainment Her Story Sam Barlow Life Is Strange Dontnod Entertainment Square Enix Ori and the Blind Forest Moon Studios Microsoft Studios Splatoon Nintendo EAD Nintendo2016 (13th) Inside Playdead Firewatch Campo Santo Panic The Last Guardian Japan Studio Sony Interactive Entertainment Overwatch Blizzard Entertainment Unravel Coldwood Interactive Electronic Arts The Witness Thekla, Inc.2017 (14th) Horizon Zero Dawn Guerrilla Games Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Cuphead Studio MDHR Gorogoa Jason Roberts Annapurna Interactive What Remains of Edith Finch Giant Sparrow Night in the Woods InfiniteFall Finji PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds PUBG Corp Bluehole, Inc.2018 (15th) Into the Breach Subset Games Dead Cells Motion Twin Florence Mountains Annapurna Interactive Moss Polyarc Return of the Obra Dinn Lucas Pope 3909 Subnautica Unknown Worlds Entertainment2019 (16th) Outer Wilds Mobius Digital Annapurna Interactive Baba Is You Hempuli Control Remedy Entertainment 505 Games Death Stranding Kojima Productions Sony Interactive Entertainment Disco Elysium ZA/UM Untitled Goose Game House House Panic2020 (17th) Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition Cardboard Computer Annapurna Interactive Carrion Phobia Game Studio Devolver Digital Fall Guys Mediatonic Ghost of Tsushima Sucker Punch Productions Sony Interactive Entertainment Hades Supergiant Games Spiritfarer Thunder Lotus Kowloon Nights2021 (18th) It Takes Two Hazelight Studios Electronic Arts Deathloop Arkane Studios Bethesda Softworks Death's Door Acid Nerve Devolver Digital Inscryption Daniel Mullins Games Returnal Housemarque Sony Interactive Entertainment Unpacking Witch Beam Humble Bundle2022 (19th) Elden Ring FromSoftware Bandai Namco Cult of the Lamb Massive Monster Devolver Digital Citizen Sleeper Jump Over the Age Fellow Traveller Sifu Sloclap Stray BlueTwelve Annapurna Interactive Vampire Survivors Poncle New Intellectual Property YearGameDeveloper(s)Publisher(s)2023 (20th) ViewfinderSad Owl StudiosThunderful Group Chants of Sennaar Rundisc Focus Entertainment Dave the Diver Mintrocket Dredge Black Salt Games Team17 Hi-Fi Rush Tango Gameworks Bethesda Softworks Jusant Don't Nod2024 (21st) Still Wakes the Deep The Chinese Room Secret Mode Animal Well Shared Memory Bigmode Balatro LocalThunk Playstack Black Myth: Wukong Game Science Metaphor: ReFantazio Studio Zero Sega, JP: Atlus Thank Goodness You're Here! Coal Supper Panic Inc.2025 (22nd) South of Midnight Compulsion Games Xbox Game Studios ARC Raiders Embark Studios Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Sandfall Interactive Kepler Interactive Dispatch AdHoc Studio Split Fiction Hazelight Studios Electronic Arts The Alters 11 Bit Studios
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
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