The time has come: votes have been cast, tallied, and the winners of the 2022 XYZZY Awards have been found!
- Best Game: According to Cain (Jim Nelson)
- Best Writing: The Absence of Miriam Lane (Abigail Corfman)
- Best Story: Fairest (Amanda Walker)
- Best Setting: Prism (Eliot M.B. Howard)
- Best Puzzles: The Bones of Rosalinda (Agnieszka Trzaska)
- Best NPCs: Lady Thalia and the Rose of Rocroi (E. Joyce, N. Cormier)
- Best Individual Puzzle: the escape room in The Little Match Girl 2: Annus Evertens (Ryan Veeder)
- Best Individual NPC: Computerfriend in Computerfriend (Kit Riemer)
- Best Individual PC: Bell Park in The Grown-Up Detective Agency (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)
- Best Implementation: According to Cain (Jim Nelson)
- Best Use of Innovation: The Bones of Rosalinda (Agnieszka Trzaska)
- Best Technological Development: Inform 7 build 10.1.0
- Best Use of Multimedia: Gent Stickman vs Evil Meat Hand (AZ / ParserCommander)
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