For outstanding achievement in writing a screenplay, scenario, executed treatment, and/or dialogue, with particular emphasis on the development of dramatic character-driven or plot-driven conflict.
| AWARDS | NOMINEE | WINNER |
| 2022-NAVGTR Awards | As Dusk Falls | |
| 2022-NAVGTR Awards | Ghostwire: Tokyo | |
| 2022-NAVGTR Awards | God of War Ragnarök | God of War Ragnarök |
| 2022-NAVGTR Awards | Norco | |
| 2022-NAVGTR Awards | Pentiment | |
| 2021-NAVGTR Awards | Before Your Eyes | |
| 2021-NAVGTR Awards | Far Cry 6 | |
| 2021-NAVGTR Awards | Life is Strange: True Colors | Life is Strange: True Colors |
| 2021-NAVGTR Awards | Little Nightmares II | |
| 2021-NAVGTR Awards | Twelve Minutes | |
| 2020-NAVGTR Awards | Assassin’s Creed Valhalla | |
| 2020-NAVGTR Awards | Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise | |
| 2020-NAVGTR Awards | Deliver Us the Moon | |
| 2020-NAVGTR Awards | Half-Life: Alyx | |
| 2020-NAVGTR Awards | The Last of Us Part II | The Last of Us Part II |
| 2020-NAVGTR Awards | Yakuza: Like a Dragon | |
| 2019-NAVGTR Awards | A Plague Tale: Innocence | A Plague Tale: Innocence |
| 2019-NAVGTR Awards | Bury Me, My Love | |
| 2019-NAVGTR Awards | Disco Elysium | |
| 2019-NAVGTR Awards | Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers | |
| 2019-NAVGTR Awards | Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice | |
| 2018-NAVGTR Awards | A Way Out | |
| 2018-NAVGTR Awards | Batman: The Enemy Within | |
| 2018-NAVGTR Awards | God of War | God of War |
| 2018-NAVGTR Awards | Marvel’s Spider-Man | |
| 2018-NAVGTR Awards | Remothered: Tormented Fathers | |
| 2018-NAVGTR Awards | Where the Water Tastes Like Wine | |
| 2017-NAVGTR Awards | Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice | |
| 2017-NAVGTR Awards | Horizon Zero Dawn | |
| 2017-NAVGTR Awards | Life is Strange: Before the Storm | |
| 2017-NAVGTR Awards | Nier: Automata | Persona 5 |
| 2017-NAVGTR Awards | Persona 5 | |
| 2016-NAVGTR Awards | 1979 Revolution: Black Friday | Firewatch |
| 2016-NAVGTR Awards | Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare | Firewatch |
| 2016-NAVGTR Awards | Firewatch | Firewatch |
| 2016-NAVGTR Awards | Quantum Break | Firewatch |
| 2016-NAVGTR Awards | Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End | Firewatch |
| 2015-NAVGTR Awards | Call of Duty: Black Ops III | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |
| 2015-NAVGTR Awards | Fallout 4 | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |
| 2015-NAVGTR Awards | Her Story | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |
| 2015-NAVGTR Awards | Life is Strange | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |
| 2015-NAVGTR Awards | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |
| 2014-NAVGTR Awards | Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare | The Walking Dead: Season Two |
| 2014-NAVGTR Awards | Dragon Age: Inquisition | The Walking Dead: Season Two |
| 2014-NAVGTR Awards | Infamous First Light | The Walking Dead: Season Two |
| 2014-NAVGTR Awards | The Walking Dead: Season Two | The Walking Dead: Season Two |
| 2014-NAVGTR Awards | Wolf Among Us, The | The Walking Dead: Season Two |
| 2013-NAVGTR Awards | Beyond: Two Souls | The Last of Us |
| 2013-NAVGTR Awards | Bioshock: Infinite | The Last of Us |
| 2013-NAVGTR Awards | Gone Home | The Last of Us |
| 2013-NAVGTR Awards | Remember Me | The Last of Us |
| 2013-NAVGTR Awards | The Last of Us | The Last of Us |
| 2012-NAVGTR Awards | Far Cry 3 | The Walking Dead |
| 2012-NAVGTR Awards | Mass Effect 3 | The Walking Dead |
| 2012-NAVGTR Awards | Spec Ops: The Line | The Walking Dead |
| 2012-NAVGTR Awards | The Darkness II | The Walking Dead |
| 2012-NAVGTR Awards | The Last Story | The Walking Dead |
| 2012-NAVGTR Awards | The Walking Dead | The Walking Dead |
| 2011-NAVGTR Awards | Brink | Catherine |
| 2011-NAVGTR Awards | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 | Catherine |
| 2011-NAVGTR Awards | Catherine | Catherine |
| 2011-NAVGTR Awards | The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings | Catherine |
| 2011-NAVGTR Awards | Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception | Catherine |
| 2010-NAVGTR Awards | Alan Wake | Red Dead Redemption |
| 2010-NAVGTR Awards | Fallout: New Vegas | Red Dead Redemption |
| 2010-NAVGTR Awards | Heavy Rain | Red Dead Redemption |
| 2010-NAVGTR Awards | Mass Effect 2 | Red Dead Redemption |
| 2010-NAVGTR Awards | Red Dead Redemption | Red Dead Redemption |
| 2009-NAVGTR Awards | Assassin’s Creed II | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves |
| 2009-NAVGTR Awards | Batman: Arkham Asylum | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves |
| 2009-NAVGTR Awards | Dragon Age: Origins | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves |
| 2009-NAVGTR Awards | inFamous | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves |
| 2009-NAVGTR Awards | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves |
| 2008-NAVGTR Awards | Braid | Fallout 3 |
| 2008-NAVGTR Awards | Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway | Fallout 3 |
| 2008-NAVGTR Awards | Chrono Trigger | Fallout 3 |
| 2008-NAVGTR Awards | Fallout 3 | Fallout 3 |
| 2008-NAVGTR Awards | Lost Odyssey | Fallout 3 |
| 2007-NAVGTR Awards | Eternal Sonata | Mass Effect |
| 2007-NAVGTR Awards | Heavenly Sword | Mass Effect |
| 2007-NAVGTR Awards | Mass Effect | Mass Effect |
| 2007-NAVGTR Awards | Odin Sphere | Mass Effect |
| 2007-NAVGTR Awards | Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 | Mass Effect |
| 2006-NAVGTR Awards | Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | Neverwinter Nights 2 |
| 2006-NAVGTR Awards | Final Fantasy XII | Neverwinter Nights 2 |
| 2006-NAVGTR Awards | Neverwinter Nights 2 | Neverwinter Nights 2 |
| 2006-NAVGTR Awards | Rule of Rose | Neverwinter Nights 2 |
| 2006-NAVGTR Awards | Suikoden V | Neverwinter Nights 2 |
| 2005-NAVGTR Awards | God of War | Indigo Prophecy |
| 2005-NAVGTR Awards | Indigo Prophecy | Indigo Prophecy |
| 2005-NAVGTR Awards | Killer 7 | Indigo Prophecy |
| 2005-NAVGTR Awards | Resident Evil 4 | Indigo Prophecy |
| 2005-NAVGTR Awards | The Warriors | Indigo Prophecy |
| 2004-NAVGTR Awards | Breakdown | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas |
| 2004-NAVGTR Awards | Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door |
| 2004-NAVGTR Awards | Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas |
| 2004-NAVGTR Awards | Fable | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas |
| 2004-NAVGTR Awards | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door |
| 2004-NAVGTR Awards | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas |
| 2004-NAVGTR Awards | Katamari Damacy | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door |
| 2004-NAVGTR Awards | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door |
| 2004-NAVGTR Awards | The Bard’s Tale | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door |
| 2004-NAVGTR Awards | The Suffering | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas |
| 2003-NAVGTR Awards | Armed and Dangerous | Armed and Dangerous |
| 2003-NAVGTR Awards | Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds | Armed and Dangerous |
| 2003-NAVGTR Awards | Final Fantasy X-2 | Armed and Dangerous |
| 2003-NAVGTR Awards | Jak II | Armed and Dangerous |
| 2003-NAVGTR Awards | Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne | Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic |
| 2003-NAVGTR Awards | Primal | Armed and Dangerous |
| 2003-NAVGTR Awards | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic |
| 2003-NAVGTR Awards | Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic | Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic |
| 2003-NAVGTR Awards | The Getaway | Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic |
| 2003-NAVGTR Awards | Tron 2.0 | Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic |
| 2002-NAVGTR Awards | Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City |
| 2002-NAVGTR Awards | Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem | Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem |
| 2002-NAVGTR Awards | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City |
| 2002-NAVGTR Awards | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City | Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem |
| 2002-NAVGTR Awards | Kingdom Hearts | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City |
| 2002-NAVGTR Awards | Kingdom Hearts | Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem |
| 2002-NAVGTR Awards | Metroid Prime | Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem |
| 2002-NAVGTR Awards | Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City |
| 2002-NAVGTR Awards | Spider-Man: The Movie | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City |
| 2001-NAVGTR Awards | Conker’s Bad Fur Day | Final Fantasy X |
| 2001-NAVGTR Awards | Devil May Cry | Final Fantasy X |
| 2001-NAVGTR Awards | Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix | Final Fantasy X |
| 2001-NAVGTR Awards | Final Fantasy X | Final Fantasy X |
| 2001-NAVGTR Awards | Final Fantasy X | |
| 2001-NAVGTR Awards | Half-Life | Half-Life |
| 2001-NAVGTR Awards | ICO | |
| 2001-NAVGTR Awards | Oddworld Munch’s Oddysee | |
| 2001-NAVGTR Awards | Okage: Shadow King | Final Fantasy X |
| 2001-NAVGTR Awards | Soul Reaver 2 | |