Best Game
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.
- 2011: Cryptozookeeper by Robb Sherwin
- Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis by Adam Thornton
- Six by Wade Clark
- Zombie Exodus by Jim Dattilo
- 2010: Aotearoa by Matt Wigdahl
- Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home by Andrew Plotkin
- One Eye Open by Colin Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine
- Rogue of the Multiverse by C. E. J. Pacian
- The Warbler's Nest by Jason McIntosh
- 2009: Blue Lacuna by Aaron A. Reed
- Broken Legs by Sarah Morayati
- Make it Good by Jon Ingold
- The Shadow in the Cathedral by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold
- 2008: Violet by Jeremy Freese
- Everybody Dies by Jim Munroe
- Gun Mute by C. E. J. Pacian
- Nightfall by Eric Eve
- Piracy 2.0 by Sean Huxter
- 2007: Lost Pig by Admiral Jota
- An Act of Murder by Christopher Huang
- Child's Play by Stephen Granade
- Fate by Victor Gijsbers
- Suveh Nux by David Fisher
- 2006: The Elysium Enigma by Eric Eve
- Floatpoint by Emily Short
- The Baron (a.k.a. De Baron) by Victor Gijsbers
- The Primrose Path by Nolan Bonvouloir
- The Traveling Swordsman by Mike Snyder
- 2005: Vespers by Jason Devlin
- All Hope Abandon by Eric Eve
- Chancellor by Kevin Venzke
- Distress by Mike Snyder
- Finding Martin by Gayla Wennstrom
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Famous quotes containing the word game:
“That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Vanessa wanted to be a ballerina. Dad had such hopes for her.... Corin was the academically brilliant one, and a fencer of Olympic standard. Everything was expected of them, and they fulfilled all expectations. But I was the one of whom nothing was expected. I remember a game the three of us played. Vanessa was the President of the United States, Corin was the British Prime Minister—and I was the royal dog.”
—Lynn Redgrave (b. 1943)