For your consideration: XYZZY-eligible Best Setting of 2021 - an IFDB Poll

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This is for suggesting games released in 2021 which you think might be worth considering for Best Setting in the XYZZY awards.

This is not a zeroth-round nomination. This is not an official list. The point of poll is partly to suggest games that others might want to check out, partly as your own reminder for when XYZZY season comes around.

This isn't intended as a straw poll; please don't upvote games already on the list.

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The Faeries Of Haelstowne, by Christopher Merriner
4 votes
"Magic-drenched English countryside" [+]"Magic-drenched English countryside" ( - Full review) --Rovarsson... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --Mike Russo... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Jade68... (No comment) [+](No comment) --kaemi...

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Funicular Simulator 2021, by Mary Goodden and Tom Leather
3 votes
"Allegorical yet grounded" [+]"Allegorical yet grounded" ( - Full review) --Mike Russo... (No comment) [+](No comment) --N. Cormier... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Jade68...

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Universal Hologram, by Kit Riemer
2 votes
"Spetacularly inventive" [+]"Spetacularly inventive: Ambitious speculative fiction, stunning in its scope and audacity. Blends common sci-fi tropes in a highly unique way. A bizarre and alien setting that is still so very human, in the end." () --Cerfeuil... "This is a game..." [+]"This is a game where the setting is the story, a setting that manages to be dark and funny, deep and shallow, and human and plastic." --MiloM...

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The Weight of a Soul, by Chin Kee Yong
2 votes
(No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --MathBrush... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Jade68...

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Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone, by Ryan Veeder
1 vote
(No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --jakomo...

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I Contain Multitudes, by Wonaglot
1 vote
(No comment) [+](No comment) () --EJ...

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Excalibur, by J. J. Guest, G. C. Baccaris, and Duncan Bowsman
1 vote
(No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --MathBrush...

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4x4 Archipelago, by Agnieszka Trzaska
1 vote
(No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --MathBrush...

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Sandcastle Master, by Chris Hay (a.k.a. Eldritch Renaissance Cake)
1 vote
(No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --jakomo...

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Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut), by Stefan Vogt
1 vote
(No comment) [+](No comment) --8bit_era...

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Poll created on May 20, 2022