Weekly Scout/Issue 8 ・ Jun 25, 2026
Southeast Asia: Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia
Southeast Asian indie teams are small, but their games have real character: detective work, cooking and a city of magic from Singapore, a time puzzle from Thailand, a tropical farm from Indonesia.
This is a retrospective issue compiled in October 2026; the date marks the week it covers.
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Cuisineer
A roguelite dungeon crawler plus restaurant sim from Singapore's BattleBrew Productions: fight monsters with a spatula for ingredients, then cook and serve them back home.
✓Trad. Chinese ✓Simp. Chinese ✓Japanese ✓Korean ✓English
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Chinatown Detective Agency
A cybernoir point-and-click detective game from Singapore's General Interactive Co.: ex-cop Amira opens an agency in the Chinatown of 2037 Singapore, and some puzzles send you off to real-world research.
✗Trad. Chinese ✓Simp. Chinese ✓Japanese ✗Korean ✓English♪
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Masquerada: Songs and Shadows
A tactical RPG from Singapore's Witching Hour Studios, set in a Venice-inspired city of magic, with real-time combat you can pause to issue orders. English only (fully voiced).
✗Trad. Chinese ✗Simp. Chinese ✗Japanese ✗Korean ✓English♪
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Timelie
A stealth puzzler from Thailand's Urnique Studio: scrub time back and forth like a video player to plan an escape for a girl and her cat.
✓Trad. Chinese ✓Simp. Chinese ✓Japanese ✓Korean ✓English
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Coral Island
A farm life sim from Indonesia's Stairway Games: farm, raise animals and make friends on a tropical island, with online co-op. Steam lists no Traditional Chinese.
✗Trad. Chinese ✓Simp. Chinese ✓Japanese ✓Korean ✓English
Compiled with AI assistance. Every fact links to its source; the source prevails if we got something wrong.
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