Indie Jam returns this 4–5 April 2026 at Management and Science University in Shah Alam, marking its fourth edition as a growing celebration of the ASEAN independent game development scene. Held in partnership with the MSU Engage Talent Sync Expo 2026, the free-entry event brings together aspiring developers and gaming enthusiasts for a weekend of industry insights, networking opportunities, and hands-on access to some of the region’s most exciting indie titles.
At its core, Indie Jam this year continues to shine the spotlight on the region’s growing indie scene through its game showcase, featuring a diverse lineup of ASEAN titles alongside student-developed demos and games from across Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and beyond. Here’s an early sneak peek at the games set to be unveiled at this year’s showcase:
Games From The Region
Leaf Us Alone – Second Win Games
Leaf Us Alone is a turn-based, deckbuilding, roguelite with deep strategic play. Recruit cute yet powerful creatures of the magical forest to defend against the world-consuming Voidlings. Designed for players who love thoughtful strategy, the game rewards careful planning, creative deckbuilding, and discovering satisfying combos that can turn the tide of battle.
Learn more on Steam and Itch.io.
Majulah: Shape Your City – That One Time I Made A Game Studio
Build and govern a thriving Singapore in this city builder! Plan your city with tactical building placements, recruit a powerful Cabinet, and secure Building Blueprints during heated parliament sessions. Rally citizen support to ensure re-election and shape your nation’s future one term at a time!
Learn more on Steam
Falling Rain – Alkaline Game
Falling Rain is a third-person anime shooting RPG game with advanced movement mechanics. Immerse yourself in a post-apocalyptic world, experience the characters’ struggle, and follow them to the end of their story.
Learn more on Steam and Itch.io.
Merry Crisis – Monsoon Games
Merry Crisis is an intimate, contemplative romance visual novel about figuring out if home is what you left behind, or where you’re headed. After a break-up turns your world inside out, you return home for Christmas hoping for a change in scenery. As the days tick down toward the New Year, you need to decide: patch things up with your ex, rekindle an old flame, or pursue a fresh start with a charming stranger?
Learn more on Steam and Itch.io.
AXERAS – Inverse Atelier
AXERAS is a turn-based tactical military JRPG that draws inspirations from the classics and aims to modernize the genre with a unique take on the nature of war and combat. As a young captain in the army, command the Acorns Company in this turn-based tactical JRPG as you fight through the Evestrian Civil War. Use different units and combine abilities to secure battlefield superiority, as every decision you make on the battlefield will eventually catch up to you.
Learn more on Steam.
Banzai Escape 2 Subterranean – Xenoaisam Studio
Banzai Escape 2 Subterranean is a single-player or co-op anime 3rd-person action modern warfare shooter and a sequel based the events of Banzai Escape 2. You, the player, control a clone fighting to clear up paths inside the underground dungeon network.
Learn more on Steam.
Shunya – Morleaf Studio
In this puzzle platformer, you play as Shunya, a girl who fell into a world that wasn’t hers. A mysterious cat has offered her a pact, with the power to reshape the strange Otherworld. The cat draws magical cubes that command earth, fire, water, and wind. Solve elemental puzzles and find your way home across dreamlike worlds in this charming pixel adventure.
Learn more on Steam and Itch.io.
Identifile: Desktop Dungeon – Gearbyte Games
Identifile: Desktop Dungeon is a cursor-based action roguelike set inside your infected operating system. It blends the frantic action of bullet hell games with the exploration of a file system.
Navigate folders like dungeon rooms, delete viruses by using effect-laced cursors, stand up to imposing bosses and level up with EXEs in this one-of-a-kind, action-packed roguelike.
Learn more on Steam and Itch.io.
ALTEREDBLOOD+ – TrueWorld Studios
Spill the blood of your enemies, soak in their blood to awaken your weapons and abilities, and bring directionality to your ultraviolence in ALTEREDBLOOD+, a boomer shooter/ platformer.
In a megastructure which has consumed the universe, human remnants survive, addicted to her blood. Embody her Reaper, and guide humanity to extinction.
Tails & Talons – RATH
Tails & Talons is a roguelite deckbuilder where spell-casting cards and card-matching combos intertwine to create a addicting and strategic experience! Join a colorful cast of furry adventurers, unleash powerful spells, and chain devastating combos as you descend down a mysterious tower.
Learn more on Steam,
Duo Quest – 1+1 Studios
Duo Quest is a two player co-op deckbuilding game with a relationship-testing twist, that is set in a pixel art world. You and your co-op partner play as Pal-adins, two heroes who fight against The Demon King and his three generals, to bring peace back to their world.
Learn more on Steam.
Weyrdlets – Weyrdworks
Work with your pet on the desktop while you play with your friends in-game! Weyrdlets is an idle virtual pet game that blends productivity and play. Customize your pets and homes, hang out with friends, enjoy minigames, and let your companions keep you company on your desktop while you work or study through the day!
Learn more on Steam and Itch.io.
RIFTSTORM – Confiction Labs
Storms are coming. A small and insignificant ball amidst a cosmos of myth, legend, and unrelenting horrors, our Earth is under constant threat from that which defies human understanding. Rifts from other worlds and dimensions threaten to consume us. In RIFTSTORM, you will take on the role of a Weaver, an elite operative tasked with the closure of rifts and the containment of mythic threats.
Learn more on Steam.
Afterglow Byte: Reverie by the Shore – Engram Interactive
Afterglow Bytes is a game about serving food with care and connecting with others, whether with loved ones, family, or the community. Play as an izakaya owner with patrons from various ways of life, ranging from high school students to C-level executives.
Learn more on Steam.
Strik-9: Rhythm Rat Rampage – Basika Games
Strik-9 is a rhythm-action bullet-heaven hybrid where every movement is dictated by music, ensuring a natural flow that synchronizes gameplay with sound. Its run-based progression encourages mastery and replayability, while a unique combo system gives players the freedom to craft their own style of rhythmic destruction.
Learn more on Steam and Itch.io.
Tikus Tales – WilKGames
Tikus Tales is a playful isometric 3D action platformer featuring two heroic mice, Suki and Tuki, who must outwit and defeat rebellious animals to restore balance to the Chinese Zodiac.
Learn more on Steam and Itch.io.
Office Crush Dating Simulator – Lunartic Studio
You’ve just moved into a city apartment with your best friend, and started your internship at Pixel Playground Studio. Over the next three months, help plan a major event between the Murasaki Group and Pink Iris Church, while navigating office romance and avoiding HR.
Learn more on Itch.io.
Donjon Fauna – Bang Technologies
Donjon Fauna is an “asymmetric VR co-op fantasy creature veterinarian simulator” where a VR player cooperates with a non-VR player to heal wounded fantasy creatures. The VR player plays the role of a creature veterinarian intern, tasked with healing wounded creatures; however, they do not have direct access to a manual with the instructions required to heal the creatures, and will need to rely on help from a non-VR player who can read it.
One Perfect Day – Spacepup Entertainment
One Perfect Day is a first-person narrative puzzle adventure about Andy, who finds himself reliving a single “perfect” day with his best friend, Xiang Yang. Explore memory-built spaces, traverse across time, and solve spatial and story-driven puzzles, as his reality begins to slip and the day slowly reveals what it has been hiding.
Learn more on Steam.
Of Blood and Descent – Kotakoren Games
Of Blood & Descent is a roguelike strategy game where every expedition shapes a multi-generational legacy. Explore realms inspired by Southeast Asian lore, recruit allies, and continue your adventure through your descendants when death comes.
Learn more on Steam and Itch.io.
Bento Days – fruits candy studio
Bento Days is a cozy shop management game where you create, decorate and sell custom lunchboxes. Tailor your daily offerings to reflect local events and the unique tastes of your neighbors.
Learn more on Itch.io.
Celene – Nekogi Studios
A chill pixel platformer where you play as a moon rabbits that have to climb a mountain, while tethered together!! Play solo or with up to 3 friends, but the rope connecting you is both your greatest help and your biggest chaos.
Learn more on Steam and Itch.io.
Deadly Rehearsal – Kaigan Games
Deadly Rehearsal is a first-person horror game where you must assist in running the rehearsal process for a cursed play. The game has you exploring an old theatre to help set up the next scene, then later on, run the rehearsals by executing light and sound cues. The curse projects ghostly apparitions from your past during the exploration parts while causing accidents after running each scene.
Learn more on Steam.
GigaBash – Passion Republic Games
Claim your place as king among Titans! GigaBash is the ultimate Kaiju fighting game for 1-4 players, where you battle as film-inspired Kaijus and giant Heroes in fully destructible cityscapes.
Learn more on Steam.
Isekat: Crushed by a Computer, my Beloved Kitten is Transported to a Fantasy World where its Typing Skills save the Kingdom! – InSpite
A typing game where you play as a cat, crushed by a computer and transported to a fantasy world of swords, magic, catgirls and furries! As the hero summoned from another world, venture forth with your trusty keyboard, defeat foes and save the cat kingdom!
Learn more on Steam and Itch.io.
FiresOut! – Dreamonaut Studio PLT
FiresOut! is a chaotic couch co-op firefighting game for up to four players where teamwork makes the dream work or face total disaster! You and your friends play as animal firefighter interns who definitely did not sign up to rescue the entire neighborhood, but the captain believes in “hands-on learning”, so here you are.
Learn more on Steam and Itch.io.
Pigs And Wolf – Waka Studio Company Limited
In Pigs and Wolf, players take on the roles of the iconic three little pigs who have been separated from their herd. To survive, they must use their imagination to craft, strengthen, and move their wagon home across an unpredictable fantasy world, in order to reunite with their herd in a piggy village.
As moonlight spills over the land, the Wolf begins his hunt. Take cover and hope your walls are strong enough to withstand his breath. You must spend your daylight hours crafting your house with your friend, or the night might be your last.
Learn more on Steam.
Sous Raccoon – Novice Flow
Play as a raccoon sous chef managing restaurants while defending customers from monsters in this action-packed roguelike that blends cooking with combat!
Learn more on Steam.
Narin: The Orange Room – RedSensation
Narin: The Orange Room is a third-person adventure horror game. Play as Narin, a young girl whose sister mysteriously disappeared. Help her find her sister in the twilight dimension, solve the mystery, and uncover the truth.
Learn more on Steam.
I NEED SPACE – Khayalan Arts
A retired space traveler, Starkid, encounters Nebula, a lost and hungry Cosmic Cat searching for her mother. This chance meeting ignites their joint expedition across The Solfege, a dying Star System currently shrouded by a mysterious pandemic known as The Haze.
Throughout their journey, they assemble a diverse crew of Star Travelers, Extraterrestrials, Musical Droyds, and Cosmic Beings. Together, this ragtag team works to uncover the truth behind the Galactical Pandemic and ultimately, rekindle the universe back to its former glory.
Learn more on Steam and Itch.io.
Yan: Parasomnia – Nimbus Games
Yan魇: Parasomnia is a narrative focused survival horror experience inspired by genre classics like the original Silent Hill and early Fatal Frame titles, featuring unsettling atmosphere and nostalgic tension of old-school horror games. Play solo as Min, or have a friend join you as her younger brother Han, returning to your childhood home for the funeral wake of their beloved grandmother Mama Wan.
What should have been a solemn farewell becomes a descent into horror, as you unravel a dark plot still festering within the neighbourhood. Solve puzzles, survive encounters with tormented spirits, and uncover the mysteries that refuse to stay buried.
Learn more on Steam.
Blood Omens: House of Crimson Silk – Nimbus Games
Black Omens: House of Crimson Silk is a first-person, single-player puzzle horror experience set in a fictional version of Edo-era Japan. You play as Idate Chiyo, a junior investigator of the Tokugawa Shogunate’s Magical Arcane Division. Her first assignment leads her to a secluded mansion hidden deep within the forests surrounding the coastal city of Gōtsu in Shimane Prefecture — and a once-prosperous household now abandoned. Sightings of strange disturbances have begun to circulate throughout the countryside.
The local villagers whisper of restless spirits. And the wealthy family who once lived there have vanished almost overnight. Within the silent halls of the Hon’iden Mansion, Chiyo will encounter lingering apparitions, cursed artifacts, and fragments of a family history better left forgotten.
Learn more on Steam.
Once Again – RB Wolf Game
If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet? Once Again presents an interactive story about a boy who spends his summers wandering between past and present. After meeting her, summer will never be the same again… who is she, and what journey awaits you?
Learn more on Steam.
MimiCries – Miniversal Games
MimiCries is a Victorian-inspired, narrative-driven puzzle room game where players investigate the devastated remnants of the tragic Griswald family, and escape from the horrors of their accursed residence.
Learn more on Steam and Itch.io.
Sunset Drive – Klapanom Games
Embark on a heartfelt narrative road trip where two companions share a car, conversations, and the fading light of day. In this choice- based adventure, every glance, silence, and detour shapes an intimate story of connection and reflection. Slow down, uncover unspoken emotions, and discover how small moments linger long after the journey ends.
Learn more on Steam and Itch.io.
RAD: Repeat After Death – Exploding Soes
An action-arcade platforming game where your actions become your own enemy. Make your way through the various dungeons and kill the monster with your attacks. Repeat this over and over again until you clear the dungeon. Simple enough, right? But beware, as your previous actions will be repeated back at you. Dodge your way through the many ghosts of your own movement to kill the guardian and get out of this looping purgatory.
Learn more on Steam.
Lost and Found Co. – Bit Egg Inc.
Lost and Found Co. is a cute hidden object adventure where players step into the shoes of Ducky, a duck-turned-human intern at a magical startup dedicated to reuniting people with their lost belongings. Across hand-drawn, densely illustrated scenes, players will search for hidden treasures, uncover small stories, solve puzzles, and slowly transform their office space into a cozy personal sanctuary.
Learn more on Steam.
The Knights at Port Delaney – Make With Friends
An action-RPG and coming-of-age story about the effect of words in times of grief. Meet 12-year-old Theo, a resident of Port Delaney – a coastal town that is recovering after a war wrecked the land and its citizens. As the world continues to move, he’s struggling to keep moving as well. It just isn’t the same when your older brother isn’t around anymore, huh?
Learn more on Itch.io.
Abyssfall: Seekers Within – Kurechii
Abyssfall: Seekers Within fuses high-speed grid combat with instant tag-team tactics. In this Action Roguelike RPG, positioning is only half the battle. When the floor turns red, why run when you can tag in? Swap to a Tank to absorb the hit, then snap to a Striker to crush the opening. Draft your trio, find broken synergies, and master the swap to survive the descent.
Learn more on Steam.
Partner Games
Mighty Knight Legacy – FIREBEAST
Fight your way through hordes of ferocious monsters and nerve-wrecking bosses in this 2D action RPG. Venture across different maps, level up your heroes, unlock various quirky relics, and make your way to the dark castle as the wicked demon lord awaits you for a grand final clash!
In partnership with Soft Source Publishing. Learn more on Steam
Bloodbreaker: Labyrinth of the Witch – Phoenix Up! Media
Prepare to descend into the Labyrinth. Bloodbreaker: Labyrinth of the Witch combines the best elements of the roguelite and Metroidvania genres into an unforgiving, yet rewarding experience.
In partnership with Soft Source Publishing. Learn more on Steam
Grim Trials – Glory Jam
Prove your worth. Hack and blast your way through the Grim Trials. Explore the (after)life of the Academy – a training ground for aspiring Grim Reapers. Befriend fellow Reapers, learn from your mentors, and uncover the secrets of your life and love before your death.
In partnership with Soft Source Publishing and Goldpact Goblins. Learn more on Steam
Spook-A-Boo – Wala Interactive
Spook-A-Boo is a ghost hunting couch co-op game for 1-4 players. Play with friends and family to seek out and capture ghosts hiding in plain sight. Detect, scan, hook and trap all the troublemaking ghosts and have a spook-tacular time.
In partnership with Soft Source Publishing and Goldpact Goblins. Learn more on Steam.
TCG Card Shop Simulator – OPNeon Games
A trading card shop simulation game where you sell card booster packs to earn money and build the card shop of your dreams. Open your very own local game store. Stock shelves with the latest booster packs, or crack them yourself and collect and build your own collection. Set your prices, hire staff, host events, and expand your small card shop in a huge and thriving business.
In partnership with Goldpact Goblins. Learn more on Steam
Just A Shadow Game – TripleBricksGames
A diabolical fusion of deckbuilding, ritual duels and roguelite that plunges you into a realm of darkness and power.
In Just A Shadow Game, you are thrust into a world shrouded in darkness, tasked with ascending into an Eldritch entity. Weave spells of untold horror, summon the deads from the Void, erect defensive buildings that defy nature itself, experiencing demonic story-telling method with Shadow as the Game Master as you strive to become the true Overlord of the world.
In partnership with Goldpact Goblins. Learn more on Steam.
Lost Castle 2 – Hunter Studio
Lost Castle 2 is a 2D beat’em up rogue-lite game. Explore abundant treasures and items to enhance yourself, master various weapons to showcase your skills, and challenge powerful monsters to demonstrate your strength. A new adventure is calling for treasure hunters!
In partnership with Goldpact Goblins. Learn more on Steam.
PengPong – SANDY FLOOR
PengPong is a bullet-hell roguelike where your only hope for survival is to bounce weapons, items, and… well, pretty much anything that moves. Remember: if it’s not bouncing, you’re doing it wrong. Bounce hard, bounce well, and don’t stop.
In partnership with Game AiCon. Learn more on Steam.
MONOWAVE – Studio BBB Inc.
MONOWAVE is a puzzle adventure game following the journey of Mono, a newborn Guardian destined to protect the four Emotions: Anger, Anxiety, Happiness, and Sorrow. A whimsical puzzle-adventure platformer about the humane power of emotions, where players explore beautiful worlds and empathize with quirky spirits to restore harmony.
In partnership with Game AiCon. Learn more on Steam.
Senior Survival Club – Ultra Sunny Studio
In a zombie apocalypse, a grandmother takes a chainsaw to find her grandson. Defeat slow, persistent zombies, collect gear, and strengthen with exercise. Advance through ever-stronger hordes, reclaiming youthful power in this survival action game.
In partnership with Game AiCon. Learn more on Steam.
LOVE ETERNAL – brlka
Run, jump, and reverse the flow of gravity itself to escape the mind of a selfish god in this challenging precision platformer. Play as Maya, a child stolen from her family on the whim of a lonely, forsaken deity, and make your way through over 100 screens filled with spikes, lasers, switches, and traps as you unravel the horrifying secret of your new prison.
In partnership with Ysbryd Games, available via digital showcase only. Learn more on Steam.
Demonschool – Necrosoft Games
Demonschool is a new-style tactics RPG where motion equals action. Defeat big weirdos in between the human and demon worlds as Faye and her misfit companions, while navigating university life on a mysterious island.
In partnership with Ysbryd Games, available via digital showcase only. Learn more on Steam and Itch.io.
Everdeep Aurora – Nautilus Games
An ongoing apocalyptic meteor shower has forced the world’s population to settle underground. As Shell, a feline child who awakens to find her mother missing, you will drill downward into the depths to discover a hidden subterranean world and its inhabitants: tormented creatures with an uncertain past.
In partnership with Ysbryd Games, available via digital showcase only. Learn more on Steam.
WORLD OF HORROR – panstasz
The year is 198X. Disgusting creatures terrorize a small seaside town in Japan as reality starts to crumble, and the Old Gods reawaken to sate their primal hunger. It’s a losing battle, but maybe you’ve got what it takes to postpone the inevitable. The end of the world is at hand.
In partnership with Ysbryd Games, available via digital showcase only. Learn more on Steam and Itch.io.
Student Games
Elemental Quest – UOW Malaysia
Elemental Quest is a 3D action-adventure game where you play as Nerlim, a young mage mastering the elements of Fire, Grass, and Water. Explore overgrown courtyards, flooded docks, and molten forges, using elemental powers to defeat monsters and solve environmental puzzles.
Learn more on Itch.io.
BeeIt! – UOW Malaysia
BeeIt! is a fast-paced local multiplayer action game where players control Fruit Bees competing to collect Honey Pollen and convert it into puzzle-shaped Honey Blocks. Players must quickly place these blocks into the Central Grid to score points before their opponents. In co-operative mode, players must work together to complete block patterns while avoiding aggressive wasp scouts.
Learn more on Itch.io.
Thus With a Kiss I Die – UOW Malaysia
A visual novel about uncomfortable truths. When Juliet awakens from a coma, her life feels like a stranger’s. The friends she doesn’t remember smile too carefully. A night she barely recalled that left her memories in pieces. As she tries to return to a normal life in university, she realizes that she might not have been the person she thought she was.
Learn more on Itch.io.
Funked Punk – Digipen TOA
In a future ruled by dull, lifeless tunes, one rejected android rises, brawling and blazing through the streets of Shibuya in the year 2055, in search of a way to unleash true music upon every machine alive. Players take on the role of Melo, the discarded one, whose resentment fuels both the gameplay and the story.
Learn more on Itch.io.
Wanderer – Digipen TOA
Wanderer is a level-based survival horror game that focuses on exploration and item collection, where players must avoid unique enemies in each area to obtain a cursed item and escape. You play as Gian Gian, a little girl who got lost in a shipyard where the hungry ghost festival was held. Will you guide her to victory so she is able to see her parents, or is she stuck in the spirit realm?
Learn more on Itch.io
Tales Of Sang Kancil – UniMY
Tales of Sang Kancil is an educational game based on the classic stories of “Sang Kancil”. Play as Sang Kancil through three levels based on the nostalgic childhood stories as he outsmarts his foes and avoids obstacles!
Learn more on Itch.io
Check out the games on-site at Indie Jam 2026, or visit our Steam (coming soon) and Itch.io pages to browse the full collection. More Indie Jam news can be found here.
