Best Setting
The award for Best Setting, also given since 1996, recognizes games with the most original or best-described locations.
- 2011: Cryptozookeeper by Robb Sherwin
- Marine Raider by Allen Gies
- Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis by Adam Thornton
- Six by Wade Clark
- Zombie Exodus by Jim Dattilo
- 2010: Aotearoa by Matt Wigdahl
- Gris et Jaune by Jason Devlin
- Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home by Andrew Plotkin
- One Eye Open by Colin Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine
- 2009: Blue Lacuna by Aaron A. Reed; The King of Shreds and Patches by Jimmy Maher (tie)
- Make it Good by Jon Ingold
- The Shadow in the Cathedral by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold
- 2008: Nightfall by Eric Eve
- Buried in Shoes by Kazuki Mishima
- Piracy 2.0 by Sean Huxter
- Gun Mute by C. E. J. Pacian
- Violet by Jeremy Freese
- 2007: Varkana by Maryam Gousheh-Forgeot
- Blighted Isle by Eric Eve
- Ferrous Ring by Carma Ferris
- Lost Pig by Admiral Jota
- Suveh Nux by David Fisher
- 2006: Floatpoint by Emily Short
- Ekphrasis by "JB"
- Star City by Mark Sachs
- Strange Geometries by Phillip Chambers
- Unauthorized Termination by Richard Otter
- 2005: Vespers by Jason Devlin
- All Hope Abandon by Eric Eve
- Building by Mike Tullock
- Chancellor by Kevin Venzke
- Distress by Mike Snyder
- 2004: The Fire Tower by Jacqueline A. Lott
- The Dreamhold by Andrew Plotkin
- Future Boy! by Kent Tessman
- Gamlet by Tomasz Pudlo
- Mingsheng by Deane Saunders
- Necrotic Drift by Robb Sherwin
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 2000: Shade by Andrew Plotkin
- LASH by Paul O'Brian
- Metamorphoses by Emily Short
- Nevermore by Nate Cull
- shrapnel by Adam Cadre
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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