| 1st place | And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One by B.J. Best |
| 2nd place | Dr Horror's House of Terror by Ade |
| 3rd place | The Song of the Mockingbird by Mike Carletta |
| 4th place | What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed by Amanda Walker |
| 5th place | The Libonotus Cup by Nils Fagerburg |
| 6th place | Off-Season at the Dream Factory by B.J. Best (writing as “Carroll Lewis”) |
| 7th place | The Golden Heist by George Lockett and Rob Thorman and co-written by: Rob Thorman |
| 8th place | 4x4 Archipelago by Agnieszka Trzaska |
| 9th place | You are SpamZapper 3.1 by Leon Arnott |
| 10th place | A Paradox Between Worlds by Autumn Chen |
| 11th place | At King Arthur's Christmas Feast by Travis Moy |
| 12th place | The Best Man by Stephen Bond |
| 13th place | Sting by Mike Russo |
| 14th place | Funicular Simulator 2021 by Mary Goodden and Tom Leather |
| 15th place | Fine Felines by Felicity Banks |
| 16th place | we, the remainder by Charm Cochran |
| 17th place | The House on Highfield Lane by Andy Joel |
| 18th place | Finding Light by Abigail Jazwiec |
| 19th place | Silicon and Cells by Nic Barkdull and co-written by: Matthew Borgard |
| 20th place | The Last Night of Alexisgrad by Milo van Mesdag |
| 21st place | D'ARKUN by Michael Baltes |
| 22nd place | Goat Game by Kathryn Li |
| 23rd place (tie) | Universal Hologram by Kit Riemer |
| 23rd place (tie) | Grandma Bethlinda's Remarkable Egg by Arthur DiBianca |
| 25th place | Beneath Fenwick by Pete Gardner |
| 26th place | Mermaids of Ganymede by Paxton |
| 27th place | Closure by Sarah Willson |
| 28th place (tie) | Ghosts Within by Kyriakos Athanasopoulos |
| 28th place (tie) | The Waiting Room by Billy Krolick |
| 30th place | A Papal Summons, or The Church Cat by Bitter Karella |
| 31st place | How the monsters appeared in the Wasteland by V Dobranov |
| 32nd place | AardVarK Versus the Hype by Truthcraze |
| 33rd place | Cyborg Arena by John Ayliff |
| 34th place | Second Wind by Matthew Warner |
| 35th place | After-Words by fireisnormal |
| 36th place | Hercules! by Leo Weinreb |
| 37th place | Cygnet Committee by P.B. Parjeter |
| 38th place | I Contain Multitudes by Wonaglot |
| 39th place | The Last Doctor by Quirky Bones |
| 40th place | The Corsham Witch Trial by JC Blair |
| 41st place | Codex Sadistica by grave snail games |
| 42nd place | Starbreakers by Emery Joyce and co-written by: N. Cormier |
| 43rd place | My Gender Is a Fish by Carter X Gwertzman |
| 44th place | The Library by Leonardo Boselli |
| 45th place | Fourbyfourian Quarryin' by Andrew Schultz |
| 46th place | Brave Bear by John Evans |
| 47th place (tie) | The Dead Account by Naomi Norbez (call me Bez, e/he) |
| 47th place (tie) | Wabewalker by Ben Sisk |
| 49th place | Taste of Fingers by V Dobranov |
| 50th place | Walking Into It by Andrew Schultz |
| 51st place | How it was then and how it is now by Pseudavid |
| 52nd place | BLK MTN by Laura Paul |
| 53rd place | An Aside About Everything by Sasha |
| 54th place | Infinite Adventure by B.J. Best (writing as “A. Scotts”) |
| 55th place | Recon by Carlos Pamies |
| 56th place | The TURING Test by Justin Fanzo |
| 57th place | extraordinary_fandoms.exe by Storysinger Presents |
| 58th place | RetroCON 2021 by CRAIG RUDDELL (writing as “Sir Slice”) |
| 59th place | The Miller's Garden by Damon L. Wakes |
| 60th place | The Spirit Within Us by Alessandro Ielo |
| 61st place | Unfortunate by Jess Elizabeth Reed |
| 62nd place | What remains of me by Jovial Ron |
| 63rd place | Smart Theory by AKheon |
| 64th place | This Won't Make You Happy by Mike GIllis |
| 65th place | Enveloping Darkness by John Muhlhauser, Helen Pluta and co-written by: Othniel Aryee |
| 66th place | Weird Grief by Naomi Norbez (call me Bez, e/he) |
| 67th place | Kidney Kwest by Eric Zinda, Luka Marceta, Art by Kristina Ness |
| 68th place | Plane Walker by Jack Comfort |
| 69th place | The daughter by GioBorrows |
| 70th place | The Belinsky Conundrum by Sam Ursu |
| 71st place | The Vaults by Daniel Duarte |
The organizer of the 2021 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition was Jacqueline Ashwell.