XYZZY Awards (Best Game)

Browse the XYZZY Awards either by year:

• 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

Or by category:

• Best Game | Best Writing | Best Story | Best Setting | Best Puzzles | Best NPCs | Best Individual Puzzle | Best Individual NPC | Best Individual PC | Best Use of Medium (1997–2009) | Best Implementation (2010–) | Best Use of Innovation (2010–) | Best Technological Development (2010–) | Best Supplemental Materials (2010–2013) | Best Use of Multimedia (2014–) | Other awards

See also:

• Statistics

Best Game

• 1996: So Far
  Finalists: The Light: Shelby's Addendum; Lost New York; The Meteor, The Stone And A Long Glass Of Sherbet; Time: All Things Come to an End
• 1997: I-0
  Finalists: Babel, A Bear's Night Out, The Edifice, Glowgrass
• 1998: Spider and Web
  Finalists: Anchorhead, Little Blue Men, Once and Future, Photopia
• 1999: Varicella
  Finalists: For a Change, Lunatix, The Mulldoon Legacy, Worlds Apart
• 2000: Being Andrew Plotkin
  Finalists: Galatea, LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup, Rameses, Shade
• 2001: All Roads
  Finalists: Best of Three, Fallacy of Dawn, First Things First, Pytho's Mask
• 2002: Savoir Faire
  Finalists: 1893: A World's Fair Mystery; Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky; Lock & Key; Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me!
• 2003: Slouching Towards Bedlam
  Finalists: City of Secrets, Risorgimento Represso, Scavenger, To Hell in a Hamper
• 2004: Blue Chairs
  Finalists: Future Boy!, Necrotic Drift, Return to Ditch Day, The Dreamhold