| 1st place | Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky by Paul O'Brian |
| 2nd place | Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me by Mike Sousa and Jon Ingold |
| 3rd place | Photograph: A Portrait of Reflection by Steve Evans |
| 4th place | The Moonlit Tower by Yoon Ha Lee |
| 5th place | Janitor by Peter Seebach and Kevin Lynn |
| 6th place | The PK Girl by Robert Goodwin, Helen Trevillion, Nanami Nekono, and Oya-G |
| 7th place | Tookie's Song by Jessica Knoch |
| 8th place | Fort Aegea by Francesco Bova |
| 9th place | The Temple by Johan Berntsson |
| 10th place | Jane by Joseph Grzesiak |
| 11th place | MythTale by Temari Seikaiha |
| 12th place | Unraveling God by Todd Watson |
| 13th place (tie) | Identity Thief by Rob Shaw-Fuller |
| 13th place (tie) | Augustine by Terrence V. Koch |
| 15th place | Rent-A-Spy by John Eriksson |
| 16th place (tie) | The Granite Book by James Mitchelhill |
| 16th place (tie) | Eric's Gift by Joao Mendes |
| 18th place | When Help Collides by J. D. Berry |
| 19th place (tie) | Evacuate by Jeff Rissman |
| 19th place (tie) | Constraints by Martin Bays |
| 21st place | Sun And Moon by David Brain |
| 22nd place | Not Much Time by Tyson Ibele |
| 23rd place | Hell: A Comedy of Errors by John Evans |
| 24th place (tie) | Out of the Study by Anssi Räisänen |
| 24th place (tie) | Color and Number by Steven Kollmansberger |
| 26th place | BOFH by Howard A. Sherman |
| 27th place | The Case of Samuel Gregor by Stephen Hilderbrand |
| 28th place | A Party to Murder by David Good |
| 29th place | Screen by Edward Floren |
| 30th place | Concrete Paradise by Tyson Ibele |
| 31st place | Scary House Amulet! by Ricardo Dague |
| 32nd place | Coffee Quest II by Dog Solitude |
| 33rd place | Four Mile Island by Chris Charla |
| 34th place | Moonbase by Mike Eckardt |
| 35th place | Koan by Esa Peuha |
| 36th place (tie) | Ramon and Jonathan by Daniele A. Gewurz |
| 36th place (tie) | Terrible Lizards by Alan Mead and Ian Mead |
| 38th place | Blade Sentinel by Mihalis Georgostathis |
The organizer of the 2002 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition was Stephen Granade.