ECTOCOMP 2025

ECTOCOMP is an annual competition for interactive fiction celebrating the SPOOKY MONTH OF HALLOWEENTOBER. Whether you celebrate Halloween, Day of the Dead, All Saint's Eve, or just love ghost stories and creeping people out, this is your time to shine!

This competition is for games done in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

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Series: ECTOCOMP

Official Web site: https://itch.io/jam/ectocomp-2025

Organizer(s): Ruber profile Tabitha profile Passerine profile

Qualification opening date: October 31, 2025

Qualification closing date: November 30, 2025

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Results are out!December 1, 2025

The ECTOCOMP 2025 results have been tabulated and are now available. Congratulations to all authors and thank you to everyone who voted!

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La Petite Mort - English

Games written in 4 hours or less

Winner: the lamp of your body, by Naarel
2nd Place: Every day I get emails, by Emery Joyce
3rd Place: Super Halloween Horror Show, by Adam Biltcliffe
4th Place: NOTHING IN MY VEINS, by Nulla and Naarel
5th Place: I Got You, by Kastel
6th Place: Heatsick, by Ormulum
7th Place: Beneath the Weeping Willow, by Lamp Post Projects
8th Place: A Normal Morning, by Damon L. Wakes
9th Place: Go-Strange-Ghost Range, by Andrew Schultz
10th Place: Slop, by Milo van Mesdag
11th Place: Find and Keeper, by Jacic
12th Place: The Walking Man, by mathbrush
13th Place: Dusk, Airy, Does Carry, by Andrew Schultz
14th Place: Diary of a Drowned Girl, by Autumn Chen
15th Place: The Horrible Escape Room of Horror, by Nils Fagerburg
16th Place: Chez Dark Shade Ark, by Andrew Schultz
17th Place: Dying A Little (Inside), by N. Cormier
18th Place: The Final Stew, by Norbez Jones (call me Bez)
19th Place: The Idle Demon, by Charles M Ball
20th Place: How To Never Talk To Other People Again, by AntiPersonnelAnecdote
21st Place: Walk A Mile In My Shoes, by Olaf Nowacki
22nd Place: Ghost Hunt II: Haunted Washing Machine, by Dee Cooke
23rd Place: Night of the Living Not-Dead, by DissoluteSolute
24th Place: A Life Rewinding, by tzbits
25th Place: Game of Doom and Despair (by Storyteller), by One Boat Crew
26th Place: Pumpkin Patch, by tzbits
27th Place: a walk in the hallways, by augustgloom
28th Place: What is this place (by Gooseberry), by One Boat Crew
29th Place: Dual I: Rhythm, by DissoluteSolute
30th Place: Room 88 (by Smurfs), by One Boat Crew
31st Place: Escape Room (by Hugo), by One Boat Crew
32nd Place: Unfair Escape from Underground (by Loki), by One Boat Crew

Le Grand Guignol - English

Games written in more than 4 hours

Winner: Warden: a (bug)folk horror, by Tabitha and baezil
2nd Place: Kinophobia, by Bruno Dias
3rd Place: Stage Fright, by Daniel M. Stelzer and Ada Stelzer and Sarah Stelzer
4th Place: Doctor Morben's Asylum, by solipsistgames
5th Place: Costumes and Candy, by Leon Lin
6th Place: Non-humain, by BenyDanette
7th Place: When the TV decides to Murder your Girlfriend - The Game, by Martin Shannon
8th Place: One Fifty-Nine: Drowned Secrets, by Jacic
9th Place: The Night Ferry, by kaetts
10th Place: Invunche, by hechelion
11th Place: Dad's Shiva, by Cidney Hamilton
12th Place: Loveless and listless, by Coral Nulla
13th Place: Oz, The Great And Terrible, by StarryMountainClimber
14th Place: Sparks Fly, by RatNibbles
15th Place: Annual Country Market, by Doug Egan
16th Place: …Grind exceedingly small…, by DissoluteSolute
17th Place: Exorcist Tipline, by distractedmosfet
18th Place: THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT, by Larry Horsfield
19th Place: requiescat, by rh9
20th Place: I Have No Verbs, and I Must, by DissoluteSolute
21st Place: Dual II: Cyclic, by DissoluteSolute

Le Grand Guignol - Spanish

Games written in more than 4 hours

Winner: Detective en habitación cerrada, by Strollersoft
2nd Place: Velatorio, by perezperez
3rd Place: Muerte de Berta Cáceres, by Ruber Eaglenest
4th Place: You promise, by Aster Fialla and Jake Gardner
5th Place: El Sueño del Caracol, by archtron
5th Place: Jailbreak, by n-n
6th Place: Más perdido que el barco del arroz, by Mery
7th Place: Mititz, by baltasarq
8th Place: En la Oscuridad, by Edu Sánchez

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