| 1st place | The Edifice by Lucian P. Smith |
| 2nd place | Babel by Ian Finley |
| 3rd place | Glowgrass by Nate Cull |
| 4th place | She's Got a Thing for a Spring by Brent VanFossen |
| 5th place | A Bear's Night Out by David Dyte |
| 6th place | Sunset Over Savannah by Ivan Cockrum |
| 7th place | Poor Zefron's Almanac by Carl Klutzke |
| 8th place | The Lost Spellmaker by Neil James Brown |
| 9th place | Sins Against Mimesis by Adam Thornton |
| 10th place | A New Day by Jonathan Fry |
| 11th place | Zero Sum Game by Cody Sandifer |
| 12th place | Zombie! by Scott Starkey |
| 13th place | The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang by Neil deMause |
| 14th place | Travels in the Land of Erden by Laura Knauth |
| 15th place | The Unholy Grail by Stuart Allen |
| 16th place | Friday Afternoon by Mischa Schweitzer |
| 17th place | Madame L'Estrange and the Troubled Spirit by Ian Ball and Marcus Young |
| 18th place | Sylenius Mysterium by C. E. Forman |
| 19th place | Phred Phontious and the Quest for Pizza by Michael Zey |
| 20th place | Down by Kent Tessman |
| 21st place | VirtuaTech by David S. Glasser |
| 22nd place | The Obscene Quest of Dr. Aardvarkbarf by Gary Roggin |
| 23rd place | A Good Breakfast by Stuart Adair |
| 24th place | Town Dragon by David Cornelson |
| 25th place | The Tempest by Graham Nelson and William Shakespeare |
| 26th place | Temple of the Orc Mage by Gary Roggin |
| 27th place | E-Mailbox by Jay Goemmer |
| 28th place | Pintown by Stefan Blixt |
| 29th place | Leaves by Mikko Vuorinen |
| 30th place | Congratulations! by Frederick Hirsch |
| 31st place | CASK by Harry M. Hardjono |
| 32nd place | Symetry by Ryan Stevens |
| 33rd place | Aunt Nancy's House by Nate Schwartzman |
| 34th place | Coming Home by Andrew Katz |
The organizer of the 1997 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition was Kevin Wilson.