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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
* The Light: Shelby's Addendum 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
* Muse: An Autumn Romance 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: 1893: A World's Fair Mystery 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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