XYZZY Award for Best Setting
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The XYZZY Award for Best Setting 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 Setting recognizes a game with the most original or well-described locations.
Below, the winners of the award for each year are listed, followed by the other finalists for that year.
- 1996: Small World by Andrew D. Pontious
- * by Colm McCarthy
- * Lost New York by Neil deMause
- * Night at the Computer Center by Bonni Mierzejewska
- * So Far by Andrew Plotkin
- 1997: A Bear's Night Out by David Dyte
- * I-0 by Adam Cadre
- * Mercy by Chris Klimas
- * She's Got a Thing for a Spring by Brent VanFossen
- * Sins Against Mimesis by Adam Thornton
- 1998: Anchorhead by Michael Gentry
- * Losing Your Grip by Stephen Granade
- * by Christopher Huang
- * Once and Future by G. Kevin Wilson
- * Spider and Web by Andrew Plotkin
- 1999: Hunter, in Darkness by Andrew Plotkin
- * Erehwon by Richard Litherland
- * For a Change by Dan Schmidt
- * The Mulldoon Legacy by Jon Ingold
- * ''Winter Wonderland by Laura Knauth
- * Worlds Apart by Suzanne Britton
- 2000: Shade by Andrew Plotkin
- * LASH by Paul O'Brian
- * Metamorphoses by Emily Short
- * Nevermore by Nate Cull
- * shrapnel by Adam Cadre
- 2001: All Roads by Jon Ingold
- * Fallacy of Dawn by Robb Sherwin
- * Fine Tuned by Dennis Jerz
- * Heroes by Sean Barrett
- * Pytho's Mask by Emily Short
- * Textfire Golf by Adam Cadre
- 2002: by Peter Nepstad
- * Augustine by Terrence V. Koch
- * Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky by Paul O'Brian
- * The Moonlit Tower by Yoon Ha Lee
- * Savoir Faire by Emily Short
- 2003: Slouching Towards Bedlam by Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster
- * City of Secrets by Emily Short
- * Gourmet by Aaron Reed
- * Narcolepsy by Adam Cadre
- * To Hell in a Hamper by J. J. Guest
- 2004: The Fire Tower by Jacqueline A. Lott
- * Dreamhold by Andrew Plotkin
- * Future Boy! by Kent Tessman
- * Gamlet by Tomasz Pudlo
- * Mingsheng by Deane Saunders
- * Necrotic Drift by Robb Sherwin
- 2005: Vespers by Jason Devlin
- * All Hope Abandon by Eric Eve
- * Building by Mike Tullock
- * Chancellor by Kevin Venzke
- * Distress by Mike Snyder
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