Short Games Showcase 2025

The Short Games Showcase is an opportunity to show off shorter interactive fiction works made in the past year (Jan 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025), regardless of whether or not they are previously released.

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Series: The Short Games Showcase

Official Web site: https://itch.io/jam/if-short-games-showcase-2025

Organizer(s): Emery Joyce profile, N. Cormier profile

Award date: January 25, 2025

Qualification opening date: January 1, 2025

Qualification closing date: December 31, 2025

News

The Short Games Showcase 2025 has concluded!January 25, 2026

The results are out and can be viewed either on the comp's IFDB page or here on the forums! Thanks so much to everyone who participated this year.

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The Short Games Showcase 2025 has begun!January 1, 2026

The submission deadline has passed for the SGS 2025, and voting on Itch.io is now open! (We'll work to get the voting form for additional categories up and running shortly.) Check out this year's crop of games here!

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Short Games Showcase 2025 open for submissions!December 2, 2025

The IF Short Games Showcase 2025 is currently open for submissions! You can submit up to two short games, previously released or not, as long as they were made in 2025.

Games in the SGS compete for an overall best-in-show award as well as awards for Best Use of Short Form, Best Use of Interactivity, Best Story-Focused Game, Best Puzzle-Focused Game, Most Replay Value, and Best Previously Unawarded Game.

Submissions will be open through December 31.

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1st Place: Portrait with Wolf, by Drew Cook
2nd Place: a dialect for two, by lacunova
3rd Place: Marbles, D, and the Sinister Spotlight, by Drew Cook
4th Place: Hairs, by Aaron Fox-Lerner
5th Place (tie): It Was Fate, by Lamp Post Projects
5th Place (tie): Radiance Inviolate, by DemonApologist
7th Place: Super Halloween Horror Show, by Adam Biltcliffe
8th Place (tie): Little Boxes, by lavieenmeow
8th Place (tie): Ten Things I Learned in the Red Room, by Nessa Cannon
10th Place: DREAM NO MORE, by KA Tan
Entrant: Dad's Shiva, by Cidney Hamilton
Entrant: pickles ponders... pats, by KA Tan
Entrant: Prepper Van, by Chris Pollett
Entrant: Slop, by Milo van Mesdag
Entrant: be not afraid, by atjscreams
Entrant: A winter morning on the beach, by Roberto Ceccarelli (as E. Cuchel)
Entrant: Find and Keeper, by Jacic
Entrant: my baby needs blood, by crotovane
Entrant: Nihilist Syndrome, by crotovane
Entrant: Espresso Moka, by Roberto Ceccarelli
Entrant: 3XXX: NAKED HUMAN BOMBS, by Kastel
Entrant: I Got You, by Kastel
Entrant: requiescat, by rh9
Entrant: Rain Check-in, by Zeno Pillan
Entrant: The Breakup Game, by Trying Truly
Entrant: Fable, by Sophia Zhao
Entrant: Penthesileia, by Sophia Zhao
Entrant: Uninteractive Fiction 2, by Damon L. Wakes (as Leah Thargic)
Entrant: A Normal Morning, by Damon L. Wakes
Entrant: The Organ Grinder's Monkey, by Garry Francis
Entrant: Robot Recovery Mission, by Vance Chance
Entrant: The Burger Meme Personality Test, by Carlos Hernandez
Entrant: Grove of Bones, by Jacic
Entrant: Starfish and Crystallisation, by Colin Justin Wan
Entrant: Taurus and Andromeda, by Mastorna
Entrant: A king has Prnoq Pnkhr Zmtmr STOP daughters STOP fight over power STOP king is murdered STOP chaos STOP code is XYZZY to AAAAA, by Mathbrush
Entrant: hideous, fabulous, by Lionstooth
Entrant: Dialogue Between You A Dying And A God, by Falcon of Light
Entrant: The City of Tenebris, by Vance Chance
Entrant: my bluetooth mouse won't connect, by rio 𓆩♡𓆪
Entrant: greenskeep, by rio 𓆩♡𓆪
Entrant: Walk A Mile In My Shoes, by Olaf Nowacki
Entrant: Something in our heart, by Naarel and Coral Nulla
Entrant: A Game of Twenty-One, by Leon Lin
Entrant: VITALEAGUE, by Ariya Bandy and DAPHODIL
Entrant: phosphenes and floaters, by skies
Entrant: NOTHING IN MY VEINS, by Coral Nulla and Naarel
Entrant: A Witch for Halloween, by priellan
Entrant: And the Tortoise Won, by StudioGuma
Entrant: C/L/E/A/V/E, by Glueblade
Entrant: My Vampire Catboy Romance, by Glueblade
Entrant: Of Hibnenry Boneyard ler ardus, by Dola Vonde
Entrant: Tableaux, by DissoluteSolute
Entrant: The Peregrination of Criselda dela Vega, by DagitabSoft
Entrant: How to Make it Home, by bodypoetic
Entrant: Rescue Refused, by Natasha Luna
Entrant: stand clear, doors now closing, by miseri
Entrant: Medium Rare Stakes, by chyrono
Entrant: Eyes on Paradise, by Wes Platt
Entrant: Freed from the Curse, by RevolvingFlames
Entrant: The Demon Inside You, by Natasha Luna
Entrant: Behind the waterfall, by Ju / smwhr
Entrant: Emmy, Fool of Fen, by Emmfoolery
Entrant: Within Rotation, by Vine Moss Games
Entrant: Incoherence, by Vine Moss Games
Entrant: 95 Theses, by 红中
Entrant: Imagine Images Venomous Imagery, by Puapka
Entrant: Laroholg, by Dola Vonde
Entrant: Osage Orange, by Outgrabe
Entrant: horn coral collector, by Outgrabe
Entrant: RIDE HOME, by TabbieDearest
Entrant: Our Only Life, by cizclera
Entrant: phosphenes and floaters, by skies
Entrant: Let's go for a walk!, by wiglett
Entrant: Why would you summon a demon?, by Kobato Games

Best Use of Short Form

1st Place: Nihilist Syndrome, by crotovane
2nd Place: I Got You, by Kastel
3rd Place: hideous, fabulous, by Lionstooth

Best Use of Interactivity

1st Place: Something in our heart, by Naarel and Coral Nulla

Best Story-Focused Game

1st Place (tie): 3XXX: NAKED HUMAN BOMBS, by Kastel
1st Place (tie): Radiance Inviolate, by DemonApologist
1st Place (tie): Hairs, by Aaron Fox-Lerner

Best Puzzle-Focused Game

1st Place: It Was Fate, by Lamp Post Projects
2nd Place: Incoherence, by Vine Moss Games
3rd Place: A king has Prnoq Pnkhr Zmtmr STOP daughters STOP fight over power STOP king is murdered STOP chaos STOP code is XYZZY to AAAAA, by Mathbrush

Most Replay Value

1st Place: Portrait with Wolf, by Drew Cook
2nd Place (tie): The Burger Meme Personality Test, by Carlos Hernandez
2nd Place (tie): Robot Recovery Mission, by Vance Chance
2nd Place (tie): hideous, fabulous, by Lionstooth

Best Previously Unawarded Game

1st Place: Nihilist Syndrome, by crotovane
2nd Place: Portrait with Wolf, by Drew Cook
3rd Place: Ten Things I Learned in the Red Room, by Nessa Cannon

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