IFComp 2025

IFComp 2025
Competition
Frequency
Part of series	The Annual IF Competition
Website	https://ifcomp.org/comp/2025
Organiser	Jacqueline Ashwell
IFDB event page	Event
IFDB series page	Series
Total entries	85
Event dates
Registration began	1 July 2025
Registration ended	1 August 2025
Submissions ended	28 August 2025
Voting began	1 September 2025
Voting ended	15 October 2025
Results announced	18 October 2025
Results
1	Detritus
2	The Wise-Woman's Dog
3	Lady Thalia and the Case of Clephan
4	Saltwrack
5	Slated For Demolition
6	The Secrets of Sylvan Gardens
7	Fantasy Opera: Mischief at the Masquerade
8	The Witch Girls
9	Phobos: A Galaxy Jones Story
10	The Little Four
11	The Path of Totality
12 (tie)	The Semantagician's Assistant
12 (tie)	Who Whacked Jimmy Piñata?
14	Pharos Fidelis
15 (tie)	The Promises of Mars
15 (tie)	Murderworld
17	The Tempest of Baraqiel
18 (tie)	Penthesileia
18 (tie)	you are an ancient chinese poet at the neo-orchid pavilion
20	Us Too
21	A Rock's Tale
22	The Reliquary of Epiphanius
23	Monkeys and Car Keys
24	The Kidnapping of a Tokyo Game Developer
25	Anne of Green Cables
26 (tie)	whoami
26 (tie)	The Litchfield Mystery
28	WATT
29	Crescent Sea Story
30	3XXX: NAKED HUMAN BOMBS
31	Frankenfingers
32	Operative Nine
33 (tie)	Warrior Poet of Mourdrascus - Part I: The City of Dol Bannath
33 (tie)	Fable
35	*OVER*
36	Cart
37	The Olive Tree
38	Moon Logic
39	Grove of Bones
40	HEN AP PRAT GETS SMACKED IN THE TWAT
41	Backpackward
42	Fired
43	INPUT PROCESS
44	The Burger Meme Personality Test
45	Eight Last Signs in the Desert
46	Just Two Wishes
47	Clickbait
48	Temptation in the Village
49	Mooncrash!
50 (tie)	Mr. Beaver
50 (tie)	Pharaohs' Heir
52	PURE
53	Let Me Play!
54	Violent Delight
55	A Visit to the Human Resources Administration
56	Errand Run
57	Your Very Last Words
58 (tie)	High On Grief
58 (tie)	A Smörgåsbord of Pain
60	Retrograding
61	A Conversation in a Dark Room
62	Willy's Manor
63	Imperial Throne
64	Escape the Pale
65	A Day in a Hell Corp
66	Not so Happy Easter 2025
67	Rain Check-in
68	The Breakup Game
69	Dead Sea
70	The Transformations of Dr. Watson
71	Fascism - Off Topic
72	You Cannot Speak
73	Under the Sea Winds
74	A murder of Crows
75	The Island Of Rhynin
76	A winter morning on the beach
77 (tie)	One Step Ahead
77 (tie)	Hobbiton Recall
79	valley of glass
80 (tie)	By All Reasonable Knowledge
80 (tie)	My creation
82	Horse Whisperer
83	Penny Nichols, Troubleshooter
84	Uninteractive Fiction 2
85	Space Mission: 2045
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This year, nearly one-third of the entries (23 out of 85) were geoblocked from the United Kingdom, in reaction to the UK Online Safety Act 2023.

Links

• Announcement (including statements on UK Online Safety Act and generative AI).
• Results archive.
• Results ceremony recording.
• IF Archive (Guidebook).

Reviews

• IFComp 2025 Review Spreadsheet.
• Index of game threads and post-mortems on the IntFiction forum.