XYZZY Award for Best Game

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The XYZZY Award for Best Game is one of the annual awards given by XYZZYnews to works of interactive fiction. This award has been given since 1996. The award for Best Game recognizes the game which is the most enjoyable as a whole: other awards recognize merit in particular qualities.

Below, the winners of the award for each year are listed, followed by the other finalists for that year.

• 1996: So Far by Andrew Plotkin
  • The Light: Shelby's Addendum by Colm McCarthy
  • Lost New York by Neil deMause
  • The Meteor, the Stone, and a Long Glass of Sherbet by Graham Nelson
  • Time: All Things Come to an End by Andy Phillips
• 1997: I-0 by Adam Cadre
  • Babel by Ian Finley
  • A Bear's Night Out by David Dyte
  • The Edifice by Lucian P. Smith
  • Glowgrass by Nate Cull
• 1998: Spider and Web by Andrew Plotkin
  • Anchorhead by Michael Gentry
  • Little Blue Men by Michael Gentry
  • Once and Future by G. Kevin Wilson
  • Photopia by Adam Cadre
• 1999: Varicella by Adam Cadre
  • For a Change by Dan Schmidt
  • Lunatix: The Insanity Circle by Mike Snyder
  • The Mulldoon Legacy by Jon Ingold
  • Worlds Apart by Suzanne Britton
• 2000: Being Andrew Plotkin by J. Robinson Wheeler
  • Galatea by Emily Short
  • LASH by Paul O'Brian
  • Rameses by Stephen Bond
  • Shade by Andrew Plotkin
• 2001: All Roads by Jon Ingold
  • Best of Three by Emily Short
  • Fallacy of Dawn by Robb Sherwin
  • First Things First by J. Robinson Wheeler
  • Pytho's Mask by Emily Short
• 2002: Savoir Faire by Emily Short
  • 1893: A World's Fair Mystery by Peter Nepstad
  • Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky by Paul O'Brian
  • Lock & Key by Adam Cadre
  • Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish out of Me! by Jon Ingold and Mike Sousa
• 2003: Slouching Towards Bedlam by Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster
  • City of Secrets by Emily Short
  • Risorgimento Represso by Michael J. Coyne
  • Scavenger by Quintin Stone
  • To Hell in a Hamper by J. J. Guest
• 2004: Blue Chairs by Chris Klimas
  • Future Boy! by Kent Tessman
  • Necrotic Drift by Robb Sherwin
  • Return to Ditch Day by Michael J. Roberts
  • The Dreamhold by Andrew Plotkin
• 2005: Vespers by Jason Devlin
  • All Hope Abandon by Eric Eve
  • Chancellor by Kevin Venzke
  • Distress by Mike Snyder
  • Finding Martin by Gayla Wennstrom