"King's Quest V" won the 1991 Software Publishers Association Excellence in Software Award for Best Fantasy Role-Playing/Adventure Program, "Computer Gaming World" named the game as its 1991 Adventure Game of the Year, and in 1992 named it to the magazine's Hall of Fame for games readers rated highly over time. In 1992 "King's Quest V" was voted "Best Multimedia Fantasy/Adventure Game" by readers of "MPC World". In 1996 "Computer Gaming World" named "King's Quest V" the 94th best game ever. The editors wrote that "Roberta Williams horrified Sierra traditionalists by getting the parser out of the way of some of the most beautiful graphics ever.