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

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

Le Grand Guignol - English

Games written in more than 4 hours

Entrant: Warden: a (bug)folk horror, by Tabitha and baezil
Entrant: Kinophobia, by Bruno Dias
Entrant: Stage Fright, by Daniel M. Stelzer and Ada Stelzer and Sarah Stelzer
Entrant: Doctor Morben's Asylum, by solipsistgames
Entrant: Costumes and Candy, by Leon Lin
Entrant: Non-humain, by BenyDanette
Entrant: When the TV decides to Murder your Girlfriend - The Game, by Martin Shannon
Entrant: One Fifty-Nine: Drowned Secrets, by Jacic
Entrant: The Night Ferry, by kaetts
Entrant: Invunche, by hechelion
Entrant: Dad's Shiva, by Cidney Hamilton
Entrant: Loveless and listless, by Coral Nulla
Entrant: Oz, The Great And Terrible, by StarryMountainClimber
Entrant: Sparks Fly, by RatNibbles
Entrant: Annual Country Market, by Doug Egan
Entrant: …Grind exceedingly small…, by DissoluteSolute
Entrant: Exorcist Tipline, by distractedmosfet
Entrant: THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT, by Larry Horsfield
Entrant: requiescat, by rh9
Entrant: I Have No Verbs, and I Must, by DissoluteSolute
Entrant: 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
6th Place: Jailbreak, by n-n
7th Place: Más perdido que el barco del arroz, by Mery
8th Place: Mititz, by baltasarq
9th Place: En la Oscuridad, by Edu Sánchez

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