The annual SEA Awards during Level Up KL 2023 celebrates the best and brightest in the Southeast Asian video games business. From small-scale indie games to student titles, these are the games and companies that are worth your attention and adoration.

Here are your winners for this year’s SEA Awards.

 

Best Storytelling

We're grateful for winning the ??Best Storytelling?? category in SEA Game Awards by Level Up KL!!

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— A Space for the Unbound ?? (@ASFTUgame) September 29, 2023

• A Space For The Unbound (Winner)
• One Last Journey
• Our Mountain
• Hello Goodboy
• Kabaret

 

Best Visual Art

• Rendezvous by Pendopo Creations (Winner)
• Kabaret by Persona Theory Games
• Paper Ghost Stories: Third Eye Open
• Passage

 

Best Game Design

• The Land Beneath Us (Winner)
• Sigil of the Magi
• The Signal State
• Unyielder
• Zombie Soup

 

Best Audio Design

• Chiyo by Nimbus Games (Winner)
• Coffee Talk Episode 2 by Toge Productions
• Nenita the Witch
• RiBeat!
• Sparkline

 

Best Innovation

• Nullspace (Winner)
• Deverse World
• Legendary Hoplite
• Midwest 90: Rapid City
• Robo Frenzy

 

Best Technology

• Nullspace (Winner)
• DevaData
• Escape: Life
• Metapals
• Snake.i

 

Best Student Game

• Sedap (Winner)
• Helen
• Asleep In The Deep
• My Mechanical Mother
• Retro Invasion

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Rising Star Award

• Zombie Soup by Aeonsparx (Winner)
• Gala
• Kenjora
• Unplug
• I Need Space

 

Best International Game

• F1 23 by EA Codemasters (Winner)
• The Devil Within: Satgat by Newcore Games (2nd place)
• Homeseek by The Iterative Collective (3rd place)
• Lost Twins 2
• Go-Go Town!

 

Audience Choice Awards

• Unplug by Goldlime Studios (Indonesia)
• Snake.io
• DevaData
• Nenita The Witch
• Passage

 

Grand Jury Award

• Rendezvous by Pendepo Creations (Indonesia)

 

Digital Content Creators Challenge (DC3) 2023

Interactive Media Winners

• Klick 2 Play
• iQRA
• ESG Odyssey

Digital Games Winners

• Nusantara Adventures (Winner: RM100,000)
• Banzai Escape 2
• Shunya
• Reborn in Arcane Realms
• My Adventure Guild

The rest of the winners get RM50,000.