It won Game of the Year from Polygon,[1] as well as Game of the Month from Rock, Paper, Shotgun[2] and GameSpot.[3] It received the Breakthrough Award at the 33rd Golden Joystick Awards,[4] Debut Game and Game Innovation at the 12th British Academy Games Awards,[5] the award for Most Original game from PC Gamer,[6] and the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at the Independent Games Festival Awards.[7] At The Game Awards 2015, Her Story won Best Narrative, and Seifert won Best Performance for her role in the game.[8] The game won Mobile Game of the Year at the SXSW Gaming Awards,[9] the award for Mobile & Handheld at the British Academy Games Awards,[67] awards for excellence in story and innovation at the International Mobile Gaming Awards,[10] and Best Emotional Mobile & Handheld Game at the Emotional Games Awards,[11] while The Guardian named it the best iOS game of 2015,[12] In 2015, Edge ranked Her Story as 94th in their list of the greatest videogames of all time.[75]