| 1st place | Photopia by Adam Cadre |
| 2nd place | Muse: An Autumn Romance by Christopher Huang |
| 3rd place | The Plant by Michael J. Roberts |
| 4th place | Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés by Stephen Granade |
| 5th place | Enlightenment by Taro Ogawa |
| 6th place | Mother Loose by Irene Callaci |
| 7th place | Little Blue Men by Michael S. Gentry |
| 8th place | Trapped in a One-Room Dilly by Laura Knauth |
| 9th place | Persistence of Memory by Jason Dyer |
| 10th place | Downtown Tokyo, Present Day by John Kean |
| 11th place | Informatory by William J. Shlaer |
| 12th place | Ritual of Purification by Jarek Sobolewski |
| 13th place | The City by Sam Barlow |
| 14th place | Where Evil Dwells by Steve Owens and Paul T. Johnson |
| 15th place | Purple by Stefan Blixt |
| 16th place | Four in One by J. Robinson Wheeler |
| 17th place | Research Dig by Chris Armitage |
| 18th place | CC by Mikko Vuorinen |
| 19th place | Spacestation by David Ledgard |
| 20th place | Cattus Atrox by David Cornelson |
| 21st place | In the Spotlight by John Byrd |
| 22nd place | Lightiania by Gustav Bodel |
| 23rd place | Acid Whiplash by Ryan Stevens and Cody Sandifer |
| 24th place | I Didn't Know You Could Yodel by Andrew J. Indovina and Michael Eisenman |
| 25th place | Fifteen by Ricardo Dague |
| 26th place | The Commute by Kevin Copeland |
| 27th place | Human Resources Stories by Harry M. Hardjono |
The organizer of the 1998 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition was David Dyte.