There’s this one game on the showfloor of Indie Jam 2026 that my media peers were raving about, and but we struggle to remember the name. “The rat game.””The one rhythm game bullet heaven one.” Something along those lines is what most people I talk to remember it by.

But that should be the least of the problems Philippines-based indie devs Basika should be worried ...

In the right context, being underfunded and under-equipped to do the task at hand can lead to fun, funny situations. And that right context will always be within the confines of a video game.

FiresOut! is just that. It’s a couch co-op game from Malaysian studio Dreamonaut Studio. What started as a final year project is now turning into the indie studio’s debut, rig...

Isekat: Crushed by a Computer, my Beloved Kitten is Transported to a Fantasy World where its Typing Skills Save the Kingdom! A long title for a game, a playful nod to how Japanese media can have a whole synopsis crammed into the title, and somehow, a multi-lingual pun.

Isekat is a pun on isekai, of course, the Japanese word that describes the concept of being tran...

Axeras has big ambitions. The tactical RPG/strategy RPG/strategy tactics game by Malaysian studio Inverse Atelier aims to tell a war story through anime visuals. But that’s not the big thing about this game, I argue. Rather, it’s the scale.

Axeras is grounded on the same foundations as XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Move units from cover to cover between full cover and half ...

Justdan, the Taiwanese publisher and distributor behind last year’s Capcom pop-up store that popped up last year, is coming back to Malaysia. But not in Kuala Lumpur like last time.

Instead, th...