The 2025 IFDB Awards
The IFDB Awards is an annual competition designed to award excellence in creating interactive fiction.It is held from February 1st to the first weekend after February 15th each year on the Interactive Fiction Database, and takes the form of polls.
The polls can be found here.
Details
Series: The IFDB Awards
Organizer(s): Brian Rushton profile
Award date: February 16, 2026
Qualification opening date: January 1, 2025
Qualification closing date: December 31, 2025
Games and Awards
Search for gamesOutstanding Game of the Year 2025
Winner: Type Help, by William Rous
Author’s Choice for Best Game of 2025
Winner: Portrait with Wolf, by Drew Cook
Outstanding Debut 2025
Winner: Slated For Demolition, by Meri Something
Outstanding Game over 2 hours in 2025
Winner: Type Help, by William Rous
Outstanding Short Game of 2025
Winner: Portrait with Wolf, by Drew Cook
Outstanding Underappreciated Game of 2025
Winner: Warden: a (bug)folk horror, by Tabitha and baezil
Most Sequel-worthy game of 2025
Winner: Warden: a (bug)folk horror, by Tabitha and baezil
Trailblazer Award of 2025
Winner: Portrait with Wolf, by Drew Cook
Outstanding Worldbuilding of 2025
Winner: Pharos Fidelis, by DemonApologist
Outstanding Use of Interactivity in 2025
Outstanding Retro Game of 2025
Winner: Zodiac - An Arthur Blonde Mission, by Charles Moore, Jr.
Outstanding Game for Beginners of 2025
Winner: Marbles, D, and the Sinister Spotlight, by Drew Cook
Outstanding Multimedia Experience of 2025
Outstanding technical implementation of 2025
Winner: The Wise-Woman's Dog, by Daniel M. Stelzer
Outstanding NPC design of 2025
Winner: Who Whacked Jimmy Piñata?, by Damon L. Wakes
Outstanding Puzzle design of 2025
Winner: Type Help, by William Rous
Outstanding Plot of 2025
Tie: The Witch Girls, by Amy Stevens
Tie: Detritus, by Ben Jackson
Tie: Type Help, by William Rous
Tie: Lady Thalia and the Case of Clephan, by Emery Joyce and N. Cormier
Tie: Detritus, by Ben Jackson
Tie: Type Help, by William Rous
Tie: Lady Thalia and the Case of Clephan, by Emery Joyce and N. Cormier
Outstanding Writing of 2025
Winner: Portrait with Wolf, by Drew Cook
Outstanding German Game of 2025
Winner: Das Schneemädchen, by Michael Baltes
Outstanding Spanish Game of 2025
Winner: Solo dos deseos, by Pablo Martínez Merino (aka Kozelek)
Outstanding French Game of 2025 (not awarded)
Outstanding Fantasy Game of 2025
Winner: Pharos Fidelis, by DemonApologist
Outstanding Espionage Game of 2025
Winner: Retool Looter, by Charm Cochran
Outstanding Historical Game of 2025
Winner: The Wise-Woman's Dog, by Daniel M. Stelzer
Outstanding Horror Game of 2025
Winner: The Witch Girls, by Amy Stevens
Outstanding Humor Game of 2025
Winner: HEN AP PRAT GETS SMACKED IN THE TWAT, by Coral Nulla (as Larissa Janus)
Outstanding Mystery Game of 2025
Winner: Type Help, by William Rous
Outstanding Romance Game of 2025
Winner: Pharos Fidelis, by DemonApologist
Outstanding Science Fiction Game of 2025
Winner: Detritus, by Ben Jackson
Outstanding Slice of Life Game of 2025
Winner: The Little Four, by Allyson Gray (as 'Captain Arthur Hastings, O.B.E.')
Outstanding Superhero Game of 2025
Winner: Murderworld, by Austin Auclair
Outstanding Surreal Game of 2025
Winner: Portrait with Wolf, by Drew Cook
Outstanding Inform 7 Game of 2025
Outstanding Twine Game of 2025
Winner: Detritus, by Ben Jackson
Outstanding Ink Game of 2025
Winner: I Got You, by Kastel
Outstanding Choicescript Game of 2025
Winner: Specters of the Deep, by Abigail C. Trevor
Outstanding Inform 6 Game of 2025
Winner: All That Shimmers..., by Andrew Apted
Outstanding PunyInform Game of 2025
Outstanding Game in a Custom System of 2025
Winner: Thousand Lives, by Wojtek Borowicz
Outstanding Godot Game of 2025
Winner: LONER_DOG://Snuff Puppy Carnage Society, by Snek RK
Outstanding Ren’py Game of 2025
Winner: Spring Gothic, by Prof. Lily and Kastel and Lacunova and Nitori and Noelle Amelie Aman
Outstanding Adventuron Game of 2025
Winner: Quirky Test, by Andrew Schultz
Outstanding Unity Game of 2025 (not awarded)
Outstanding Bitsy Game of 2025 (not awarded)
Outstanding TADS Game of 2025 (not awarded)
Outstanding Decker Game of 2025
Winner: Violent Delight, by Coral Nulla
Outstanding Dialog Game of 2025
Winner: The Wise-Woman's Dog, by Daniel M. Stelzer
Outstanding Videotome Game of 2025
Winner: DREAM NO MORE, by KA Tan
Outstanding Dendry/DendryNexus Game of 2025
Winner: HEN AP PRAT GETS SMACKED IN THE TWAT, by Coral Nulla (as Larissa Janus)
Outstanding Game in an Uncommon System of 2025
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