Author's Choice for Best Game of 2025 - an IFDB Poll

This poll is part of the 2025 IFDB Awards. The rules for the competition can be found here, and a list of all categories can be found here.

This award is for the best overall game of 2025. Unlike all other polls in the IFDB Awards, this is open only to IFDB members who have authored a game and linked it to their profile. Votes by non-authors will be periodically removed.

Eligible games include only those in the following search:
https://ifdb.org/search?searchfor=published%3A2025&searchgo=Search+Games

If a game published in 2025 does not appear in this search, please edit the game page to include the correct publication year.

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	Portrait with Wolf, by Drew Cook 6 votes

	Type Help, by William Rous 5 votes

	Saltwrack, by Henry Kay Cecchini 5 votes

	The Wise-Woman's Dog, by Daniel M. Stelzer 4 votes

	Detritus, by Ben Jackson 3 votes

	The Witch Girls, by Amy Stevens 2 votes

	Pharos Fidelis, by DemonApologist 2 votes

	VALIS II, by wasnotwhynot 1 vote

	Phobos: A Galaxy Jones Story, by Phil Riley 1 vote

	Spring Gothic, by Prof. Lily and Kastel and Lacunova and Nitori and Noelle Amelie Aman 1 vote

	Lady Thalia and the Case of Clephan, by Emery Joyce and N. Cormier 1 vote

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Poll created on February 1, 2026