Viewers tuning in can expect exclusive announcements, game updates, and world premieres highlighting projects from Southeast Asian studios. The showcase aims to spotlight the growing talent and creativity coming out of the region while giving global audiences a closer look at the next wave of indie and studio-developed titles.

The broadcast will be streamed live across multiple platforms, including YouTube and Twitch.

Watch the showcase live:

• Southeast Asian Games Showcase YouTube Channel
• The Game Awards YouTube Channel
• Southeast Asian Games Showcase Twitch Channel

Hosts for the 2026 Showcase

This year’s presentation will feature a diverse lineup of hosts representing the Southeast Asian games industry and its global diaspora. The hosts include:

• Arief Johan – Co-Founder, Southeast Asian Games Showcase (Malaysia)
• Jay Wong – Co-Founder of Kopiforge (Singapore)
• Michael Higham – Editor at IGN (Philippines / United States)
• Nhi Do – Voice actor and studio producer at sunset visitor 斜陽過客 (Vietnam / Canada)
• Samantha Low – Co-Founder, Southeast Asian Games Showcase (Malaysia)
• Sarah Johana – Indie game marketer (Indonesia)
• Victoria Tran – Communications Director at Innersloth (Vietnam / Canada)

Spotlight on Southeast Asian Game Development

The Southeast Asian Games Showcase continues its mission to elevate developers from the region by giving them a global stage to share their work. Alongside new reveals and updates, the event also serves as part of a broader initiative to connect Southeast Asian creators with players, publishers, and industry partners around the world.

More details about the games featured during the event are expected in the lead-up to the June broadcast.

The broadcast will be available across multiple platforms including IGN, GameSpot, and the official Six One Indie YouTube channel.

The presentation kicks off with Petey’s Play Now Pre-Show, highlighting five recently released indie games that may have flown under the radar. Following that segment, the main showcase begins at 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET and features 56 additional titles. Altogether, the event will spotlight 61 indie games from developers and publishers across the globe.

This year’s lineup promises one of the most varied collections of games the showcase has presented so far. Viewers can expect a mix of genres ranging from survival horror and roguelikes to cozy experiences and experimental projects. The presentation will also include several developers appearing on screen to introduce their games and offer insights into their upcoming releases.

Once the showcase wraps up, viewers will be able to visit the official event website to explore previews of select titles featured during the broadcast. At the same time, the Six One Indie Showcase event page on Steam will go live, running through May 25. During that period, players will have the opportunity to wishlist upcoming titles, try demos, and purchase select games already available.

Since its debut in 2022, the Six One Indie Showcase has featured nearly 275 indie games from developers ranging from solo creators to international studios. What began as a small passion project has grown into a professionally produced event while continuing to maintain its mission of offering developers a free and accessible platform to present their work.

The 2026 showcase takes place on May 21, and fans of indie games will want to keep an eye on the broadcast to discover what’s next for the independent gaming scene.

A new gameplay trailer has debuted, offering the first look at the game’s over-the-top style. Expect highlight-reel moments packed with posterizing dunks, ankle-breaking moves, lockdown defense, and plenty of above-the-rim action.

Players won’t have to wait long to jump in themselves. The first closed beta playtest kicks off May 1, 2026, running from 12 PM to 3 PM PDT exclusively on Steam, with sign-ups already open for those looking to get early access.

Run the World Tournament

At the core of NBA The Run is the Run the World Tournament, a four-round knockout competition where teams of three battle it out on streetball courts across the globe. Each tournament builds toward a championship showdown held on one of four special finals courts, where teams compete for the Run the World trophy—and ultimate bragging rights.

Game Modes at Launch

When the game launches, players will be able to jump into three different modes:

Knockout Squads – Team up with friends or other players in a squad of three, controlling a single player as you compete in online tournaments.

Knockout Solos – Build and control your own team of three and face off against other player-created squads.

Knockout Friends – Create a private tournament where you can play solo against AI, team up with friends against AI, or host matches with invited players. Private tournaments will support up to 48 players at launch.

NBA Stars Meet Streetball Legends

At launch, players will choose from a roster of more than 30 NBA stars alongside five original streetball legends, each designed with their own playstyles and visual flair. The game’s stylized approach aims to capture the energy of classic arcade sports titles while delivering smooth, modern gameplay.

The action is powered by rollback netcode, designed to keep matches responsive online. Every crossover, loose-ball dive, and alley-oop is synchronized across players to maintain a seamless competitive experience.

A Love Letter to Classic Sports Games

NBA The Run marks the debut project from Play by Play Studios, an independent development team made up of industry veterans who have previously worked on major game franchises. Their goal is to bring back the spirit of the golden era of sports games while building something fresh for today’s players.

With its global streetball tournaments, stylized roster, and fast-paced gameplay, NBA The Run is shaping up to be a new take on arcade basketball when it hits consoles and PC this June.

Keep an eye out for the closed beta this week—and get ready to run the court.

At the center of the story is Chris David, an American who unexpectedly inherits the crumbling Grand Hotel in a quiet English seaside town. What begins as a renovation project soon reveals something far stranger lurking beneath the faded wallpaper and broken windows.

During the day, players focus on restoring the Grand Hotel and helping bring the nearby village of Kingswood-on-Sea back to life. Using tools like a sandblaster, paint sprayer, and even a furniture cannon, players can repair, decorate, and rebuild locations throughout the town. The game expands beyond the hotel itself, allowing players to explore a small open world filled with abandoned shops and rundown buildings that can also be restored.

Some renovations uncover more than just fresh paint and new furniture. Hidden within these spaces are ghost stories, forgotten memories, and clues that slowly reveal the town’s unsettling past.

When night falls, the tone shifts dramatically. The same tools used for renovation become part of a ghost-hunting toolkit as players investigate eerie locations and follow supernatural leads. The trailer teases investigations across Kingswood-on-Sea, including visits to unsettling locations like the village church, where strange happenings begin to surface.

Time management also plays a key role. Players have just 30 in-game days and nights to renovate the hotel, explore the town, build relationships with locals, and investigate the growing mystery surrounding the Grand and its residents. Deciding how to spend that limited time will shape how much of the story players uncover.

The trailer also highlights the game’s musical side. It features “Skeletons in the Closet,” an original song performed by Marcia Richards of The Skints, who voices the character Lily. The track is one of more than ten original songs woven throughout the game, with each major character bringing their own musical story into the narrative.

There Are No Ghosts at the Grand blends narrative exploration, renovation gameplay, supernatural investigation, and musical storytelling in a seaside setting that’s equal parts cozy and unsettling. By day you’ll rebuild the town, and by night you’ll chase ghosts—whether the locals admit they exist or not.

Be sure to keep an eye out for more updates as the mystery surrounding the Grand Hotel continues to unfold.

Built as a single-player, story-driven experience, Luna Abyss blends fluid first-person platforming with intense bullet-hell combat, wrapping it all in a narrative steeped in cosmic horror and cryptic mythology.

A Prison Sentence Written in Prophecy

Players step into the role of Fawkes, a prisoner of Luna—an artificial, ever-shifting moon that hides a sprawling derelict megastructure known only as the Abyss. Rather than serving a traditional sentence, Fawkes is sent downward into this hostile labyrinth to recover lost technologies from a long-dead colony.

Overseeing every step is Aylin, an artificial prison guard whose presence looms as both guide and overseer, reinforcing the uneasy blend of control and survival that defines the journey.

As players descend, they uncover the remnants of Greymont, a once-thriving colony now reduced to echoing ruins filled with unsettling traces of its downfall. References to entities like the Scourge, the All-Father, and the Collective hint at a collapsed belief system that still lingers within the structure itself.

A World That Watches Back

The environment of Luna Abyss isn’t just a backdrop—it feels alive. The megastructure pulses with strange echoes and fragmented voices that blur the line between memory and madness. Whispers drift through corridors, suggesting that something beneath it all is still listening… and waiting.

The game leans heavily into psychological and cosmic horror themes, pushing players deeper not just physically, but narratively, as each layer of the Abyss reveals more about the colony’s collapse—and Fawkes’ role in it.

Platforming Through a Broken Megastructure

Traversal plays a central role in survival. Players will sprint, jump, and dash across vertical and sprawling environments designed like a brutalist alien labyrinth. Movement is fast, reactive, and tightly woven into exploration, turning the Abyss itself into an obstacle course of decay and danger.

This isn’t just about reaching the next objective—it’s about surviving the architecture of something that was never meant to be understood.

Bullet-Hell Survival in the Deep

Combat shifts the tone into high-intensity encounters against corrupted souls and other twisted remnants of Luna’s forgotten past. Encounters escalate into bullet-hell-style chaos, requiring constant adaptation, precise movement, and mastery of an evolving arsenal.

Rather than static firefights, battles are designed to push players into improvisation—forcing them to adjust strategies on the fly while navigating hostile, shifting environments.

A Descent Worth Taking

With its mix of first-person action, platforming precision, and layered narrative mystery, Luna Abyss is shaping up to be a descent into something far more psychological than it first appears.

Launching across Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud Gaming (via Game Pass), Steam, Epic Games Store, and PlayStation 5, it’s positioned as a multi-platform release aiming to reach players wherever they explore their next obsession.

When May 21 arrives, the only real question is how far down players are willing to go before the Abyss starts answering back.

The new playtest lets players step into the role of an Inquisitor tasked with solving two strange ritualistic murders. Set in a hand-animated world inspired by 19th-century Eastern Europe, Inkblood throws players into a land filled with unsettling institutions, secret societies, masked carnivals, and even mushroomfolk disguised as humans. Your job is to investigate bizarre crimes and enforce the rule of the Inquisition—at least while your objectives remain aligned.

A Dark Mystery Beneath the Surface

In Inkblood, sorcery is corrupting both the people and the fabric of reality itself. As an Inquisitor, you’ll need to uncover the truth behind a growing conspiracy before an ominous comet arrives and seals the fate of the entire land.

The game features ten unique cases to solve, each becoming more complex and unsettling as the story unfolds. Inspired by investigative titles like The Case of the Golden Idol, Strange Horticulture, and Return of the Obra Dinn, players will gather clues, analyze scenes, and connect the dots across both past and present events.

Exploration plays a major role as well. You’ll travel between strange locations across a small open world, using your carriage as both transportation and a base of operations. Along the way, supernatural tools—including a mysterious magnifying glass capable of revealing the past—may help uncover hidden truths. But some secrets may be better left buried.

Key Features

• Uncover the Truth
  Use deduction, observation, intuition, and supernatural tools provided by the Inquisition to unravel a cultist conspiracy.
• Home Away From Home
  Your carriage acts as a mobile headquarters during investigations—but rumors suggest it may hold secrets of its own.
• Explore the Land
  Travel between bizarre and hidden locations as your investigation leads you deeper into a conspiracy threatening the realm.
• Eradicate the Occult
  What begins as isolated incidents gradually reveals a larger plot involving cultists, forbidden rituals, and powerful forces.
• Gaze Into the Past
  A supernatural magnifying glass allows you to glimpse what once happened at a location—but not every truth should be uncovered.

Play It Now

Inkblood is scheduled to launch later this year, but players can get an early taste of the mystery right now through the Steam playtest.

If you’re interested in stepping into the role of an occult investigator, you can join the playtest and wishlist the game today on Steam.

The twist? Humans themselves are just another resource.

Set after the destruction of Earth, Hull Rupture casts players as the rogue AI Despot, commanding a living warship designed to deliver revenge against the alien forces that wiped out humanity. To survive the journey, you’ll need to manage your ship, allocate resources, and defend against constant alien incursions—sometimes by sacrificing the very crew meant to help you.

Players will command squads of humans, deploy defensive structures, and make strategic choices that shape each run. The game blends base management with reactive tower defense gameplay, creating tense scenarios where every decision carries long-term consequences.

Alien forces won’t politely approach your defenses either—they’ll tear straight through the ship’s hull. Players must quickly adapt by placing turrets, traps, barricades, and automated defenses to funnel enemies into carefully constructed kill zones. While you’ll know where breaches will occur, surviving the escalating waves will require smart planning and rapid adjustments.

Exploration and decision-making also play a major role in each run. Different routes across the galaxy can introduce new risks and rewards, allowing players to gamble on tougher encounters in exchange for stronger upgrades. Ship variants with different layouts and systems further change how each playthrough unfolds.

According to Game Director Nikolay Kuznetsov, the project represents the studio’s most ambitious work yet. The developer previously explored the darkly comedic universe of Despot in games like Despot’s Game and Despotism 3k, but Hull Rupture pushes the concept into larger-scale strategy and action.

Players won’t have to wait long to see the chaos for themselves. The first public playtest for Hull Rupture is now live on Steam, giving players an early chance to experiment with its brutal resource management and alien-blasting defenses.

If you’re curious to see how expendable humanity really is, you can wishlist Hull Rupture on Steam and jump into the playtest today.

Trackastrophe! puts players in charge of guiding a determined little locomotive across a series of vibrant, isometric puzzle stages. The goal sounds simple—build the right railway route and get your train safely to the other side—but the journey quickly becomes chaotic as players face increasingly strange obstacles and environmental hazards.

Across its colorful, retro-cartoon-inspired worlds, players must construct tracks using a variety of directional and movement tiles. Once the route is ready, it’s time to pull the GO lever and watch the train roll—hopefully along the correct path. The challenge lies in carefully analyzing each map and building a solution that navigates the terrain without sending the train off the rails.

The game features more than 100 puzzles spread across several imaginative biomes. Each world introduces its own mechanics and environmental twists, including tunnels, slippery ice patches, dangerous ravines, and even interdimensional portals. For players looking for an extra challenge, bonus levels add even more complex track-building puzzles.

Customization is also part of the ride. Players can personalize their eager little engine with a variety of cosmetic options, including different colors and a collection of hats to give the train its own personality.

While the puzzles may grow increasingly tricky, the game emphasizes a relaxed and cheerful experience. If a solution proves elusive, players can turn to the built-in hint system for a little extra help.

With its playful art style, inventive puzzle design, and more than a hundred levels to master, Trackastrophe! aims to deliver a cozy yet challenging ride when it launches on Steam on May 28.

The concept is exactly what it sounds like: you’re dropped into arenas designed like pinball tables and grindhouse action scenes, armed with nothing but a deadly bouncing ball. Keep it under control, smash through waves of enemies, and survive. It’s a simple hook that sounds like it could be either brilliant or chaotic — possibly both.

You Can Play It Right Now

Rebound CG isn’t just teasing the game from a distance. Furyball: Rogue Revenge made its debut at the Games Made in France 2026 showcase on April 24th with a teaser reveal, and the studio immediately followed that up by launching a public playtest on Steam. No waiting list, no key requests — just download and go.

The pitch for jumping in early is a good one: this isn’t just early access for the sake of it. The team wants player feedback to shape the final game, so if you get in now, you’re not just a tester — you’re part of the reason the finished product turns out the way it does.

Style to Spare

Beyond the gameplay hook, Furyball is clearly swinging hard on aesthetic. The visual direction pulls from Akira and Fist of the North Star filtered through a 70s exploitation cinema lens — bold, gritty, and unapologetically loud. The level design takes cues from sports gang settings and pinball layouts, which sounds like exactly the kind of creative mash-up that produces something genuinely original.

Backing it all up is a Disco Punk soundtrack featuring The Toxic Avenger, a French electronic artist known for cinematic, high-energy production. If the gameplay is even half as punchy as that soundtrack promises, Furyball might be one of the more surprising indie releases to watch this year.

The Bottom Line

Furyball: Rogue Revenge just announced, just revealed, and already playable. Head to Steam to try the public playtest and see whether the Beat’em Ball lives up to the concept — and maybe help make it better while you’re at it.

The upcoming title blends puzzle-solving with platforming challenges, all set against a surreal vision of 1970s-era San Francisco. Players step into the role of Barb, a young woman who discovers she is living inside an abandoned video game production. With the city facing destruction, it becomes Barb’s responsibility to manipulate the world around her and uncover a path forward.

Central to the experience is the game’s inventive “Copy and Paste” system. Barb uses a device called the Oscillator to scan the environment and extract properties from nearby objects. Those properties can then be applied to other elements in the world, allowing players to reshape the environment in creative ways.

For example, the left-to-right movement of a passing car can be copied and applied to a building, causing it to slide across the level. A trampoline’s bounce can be transferred onto solid ground, turning ordinary surfaces into springboards. Even environmental effects—such as gas leaking from a broken pipe—can be captured and pasted elsewhere to create unexpected solutions to puzzles.

The system encourages experimentation, as multiple properties can be layered together to produce new interactions. Players can freely reset their actions, making it easier to test different ideas while solving the game’s increasingly complex platforming challenges.

Those curious to try the mechanics firsthand can download the newly released demo on Steam. The preview includes the game’s opening tutorial along with its first three levels, introducing players to Barb and the colorful characters she encounters throughout the story. Progress made during the demo will carry over into the full game upon release.

Yerba Buena launches May 26, 2026 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam. Pre-orders are currently available with a 10% launch discount.

With its unusual premise and world-altering puzzle mechanics, Yerba Buena looks set to deliver a distinctive platforming adventure when it arrives later this spring.