XYZZY Award for Best Story
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The XYZZY Award for Best Story 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 Story recognizes a game with the deepest or most original story.
Below, the winners of the award for each year are listed, followed by the other finalists for that year.
- 1996: Tapestry by Daniel Ravipinto
- * Delusions by C. E. Forman
- * Lost New York by Neil deMause
- * So Far by Andrew Plotkin
- * by Andy Phillips
- 1997: Babel by Ian Finley
- * Glowgrass by Nate Cull
- * I-0 by Adam Cadre
- * Madame L'Estrange and the Troubled Spirit by Ian Ball and Marcus Young
- * Mercy by Chris Klimas
- 1998: Photopia by Adam Cadre
- * Anchorhead by Michael Gentry
- * Little Blue Men by Michael Gentry
- * Losing Your Grip by Stephen Granade
- * Spider and Web by Andrew Plotkin
- 1999: Worlds Apart by Suzanne Britton
- * Aisle by Sam Barlow
- * Common Ground by Stephen Granade
- * Lunatix by Mike Snyder
- * The Mulldoon Legacy by Jon Ingold
- * Varicella by Adam Cadre
- 2000: My Angel by Jon Ingold
- * Being Andrew Plotkin by J. Robinson Wheeler
- * LASH by Paul O'Brian
- * Masquerade by Kathleen M. Fischer
- * Rameses by Stephen Bond
- * Shade by Andrew Plotkin
- * shrapnel by Adam Cadre
- 2001: All Roads by Jon Ingold
- * Fallacy of Dawn by Robb Sherwin
- * First Things First by J. Robinson Wheeler
- * Pytho's Mask by Emily Short
- * Vicious Cycles by Simon Mark
- * Voices by Aris Katsaris
- 2002: Savoir Faire by Emily Short
- * Augustine by Terrence V. Koch
- * The Moonlit Tower by Yoon Ha Lee
- * Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me! by Jon Ingold and Mike Sousa
- * When Help Collides by J. D. Berry
- 2003: Slouching Towards Bedlam by Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster
- * City of Secrets by Emily Short
- * Narcolepsy by Adam Cadre
- * Redemption by Kathleen M. Fischer
- * To Hell in a Hamper by J. J. Guest
- 2004: Blue Chairs by Chris Klimas
- * The Act of Misdirection by Callico Harrison
- * The Cabal by Stephen Bond
- * Dreamhold by Andrew Plotkin
- * Future Boy! by Kent Tessman
- * Necrotic Drift by Robb Sherwin
- 2005: Beyond by Mondi Confinanti (Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti)
- * All Hope Abandon by Eric Eve
- * Chancellor by Kevin Venzke
- * Distress by Mike Snyder
- * Vespers by Jason Devlin
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