The ninth SEA Game Awards took place on 15 October 2026 alongside LEVEL UP KL in Kuala Lumpur. MDEC's official results name Metronomik's Ondeh Ondeh Kaya's Tasty Tale as the Grand Jury winner; it also received Best Technology and Best Score & Music.
A broad spread of category winners
The results recognize Kidbash: Super Legend for visual art, Mission Mancala for audio, TCG Card Shop Simulator for game design and Compensation Not Guaranteed for storytelling. Asia Pacific University's Fish Can Man won Best Student Game, Little Tree Kingdom took Audience Choice, and Voodoo Craft received the Rising Star Award. PLAYISM's HOMURA HIME won Best International Game.
These are jury and audience results, not Wumbo Games reviews. Developers evaluating the field can use the official nominee lists as a compact snapshot of work recognized across art, sound, technology, design and narrative—not as a universal ranking of the region's games.
The ceremony also carried new trailers
MDEC's release lists reveals or trailers from studios in Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. They include an exclusive teaser for Metronomik's Ondeh Ondeh Kaya, a release-date trailer for CtrlD Studio's Overhours, and trailers for Fallen Tear: The Ascension, Sepak U, HellHeart Breaker, Nightmare Circus, Lost & Found Co., 13Z: The Zodiac Trials and others.
Indonesia's Renala Games appeared with Dungeon Hot Pot, described as a cozy fantasy cooking narrative set in a dungeon. MDEC's document links the individual trailers and available Steam pages, making the official release the safest starting point for checking each project's current platform and release status. No release date omitted from that document has been inferred here.
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