XYZZY Award for Best Individual PC

Below, the winners of the award for each year are listed, followed by the other finalists for that year.

• 1997: Tracy Valencia, in I-0 by Adam Cadre
• * David, in Babel by Ian Finley
• * The bear, in A Bear's Night Out by David Dyte
• * Improv, in The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang by Neil deMause
• * Mattie, in The Lost Spellmaker by Neil Brown
• 1998: The employee, in Little Blue Men by Michael Gentry
• * Mover #005, in Bad Machine by Dan Shiovitz
• * Rev. Stephen Dawson, in Muse by Chris Huang
• * The agent, in Spider and Web by Andrew Plotkin
• * The troll, in by Dylan O'Donnell
• 1999: Primo Varicella, in Varicella by Adam Cadre
• * The player character, in Aisle by Sam Barlow
• * The cat, in A Day for Soft Food by Tod Levi
• * The wife, in Exhibition by Ian Finley
• * Sarah, in Winchester's Nightmare by Nick Montfort
• 2000: Rameses Alexander Moran, in Rameses by Stephen Bond
• * [unspecified], in Being Andrew Plotkin by J. Robinson Wheeler
• * The MULE, in LASH by Paul O'Brian
• * The alchemist, in Nevermore by Nate Cull
• * The player character, in Shade by Andrew Plotkin
• 2001: The Kissing Bandit, in The Tale of the Kissing Bandit by J. Robinson Wheeler
• * Aubrey Foil, in The Beetmonger's Journal by Scott Starkey
• * Helen Tsakis, in Best of Three by Emily Short
• * Delarion Yar, in Fallacy of Dawn by Robb Sherwin
• * Troy Sterling, in Fine Tuned by Dennis Jerz
• 2002: Pierre, in Savoir Faire by Emily Short
• * Dutch Dapper, in Dutch Dapper IV: The Final Voyage by Harry Hol
• * Goldilocks, in Goldilocks is a FOX by J. J. Guest
• * The janitor, in Janitor by Peter Seebach and Kevin Lynn
• * Jack Downer, in Photograph by Steve Evans
• 2003: The player character, in Episode in the Life of an Artist by Peter Eastman
• * The chef, in Gourmet by Aaron Reed
• * Eugene Oregon, in Narcolepsy by Adam Cadre
• * Enra, in Shadows on the Mirror by Chrysoula Tzavelas
• * Triage, in Slouching Towards Bedlam by Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster
• 2004: Julia, in Sting of the Wasp by Jason Devlin
• * Dante, in Blue Chairs by Chris Klimas
• * Tomasz Pudlo, in Gamlet by Tomasz Pudlo
• * Austin, in Luminous Horizon by Paul O'Brian
• * Jarrett Duffy, in Necrotic Drift by Robb Sherwin