Indie Game Utsav and Comic Con India Reveal the Biggest Steam Sale of Indian Games Ever

Indie Game Utsav, India’s only PC and console-focussed game developer event, and Comic Con India have partnered for the Comic Con X Indie Game Utsav Steam Sale. Over 110 made-in-India and Indian-origin PC games will be available at deep discounts up to 80 percent. The Comic Con X Indie Game Utsav Steam Sale is from April 10, 11pm IST to April 20, 11pm IST. And, in a first for Indian-made games, this sale will be featured on the global frontpage of Steam from April 18 to 20.

You can check out the page for yourself right here: https://store.steampowered.com

The Comic Con X Indie Game Utsav Steam Sale will also coincide with the on-ground debut of Indie Game Utsav at Mumbai Comic Con 2025. The inaugural edition of Indie Game Utsav will showcase over 40 high-quality PC and console indie games to audiences at Maruti Suzuki Arena presents Mumbai Comic Con powered by Crunchyroll from April 12 to 13, 2025 at the Jio World Convention Centre, Mumbai.

Indie Game Utsav is supported by Intel, Xbox, Xsolla, Specter, and Nodwin Gaming. IGDA India (International Game Developers Association) is Indie Game Utsav’s Community Partner.

“This Steam Sale is our way of giving Indian games a wider audience”, says Avichal Singh, Co-Founder and Game Director of Nodding Heads Games and Project Director of Indie Game Utsav. “I’m grateful for Nodwin’s and Valve’s support to surface Indian games to the world.”

“We’ve always believed that Indian indie game creators have something truly special to offer, and their games deserve to be in the hands of more players,” says Akshat Rathee, Co-Founder and MD of NODWIN Gaming. “This is just one step in a larger effort to support that ecosystem, and it’s great to see a platform like Valve share that vision for building a stronger PC gaming community in India.”

Highlights of the Comic Con X Indie Game Utsav Steam Sale include the solo-developed Bao Bao’s Cozy Laundromat, viral episodic series Fears to Fathom, cerebral card collection game Kurukshetra, critically-acclaimed action game Raji: An Ancient Epic, cosy adventure The Palace on the Hill and horror hit Kamla to name a few.

Along with this, several up and coming made-in-India Steam games will be front-and-centre for international audiences to wishlist from a wide variety of genres ranging from strategy to adventure. These include Abashed, Appa, Cosmic Race Galactic Showdown, Detective Dotson, Fishbowl, Frontier Paladin, Mukti, Sojourn Past, Spook-A-Boo, and many more.

You can find the entire list of every Indian indie PC game at Comic Con X Indie Game Utsav Steam Sale right here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AQCkje9sqMBe7Ogu6pN57RbzKx-3DxgYoc85xHXmxbQ/edit?usp=sharing

Please link to their store pages and don’t hesitate to request your audience to wishlist them as well. Your support means the world to us. You can find the full list of games available

For more on Indie Game Utsav, stay tuned to our site and social media handles to be the first to get the latest announcements and reveals.

Mobile Games Developer HighXP Raises $2.2 Mn in Seed Funding from 3one4 Capital

Bengaluru based HighXP, a mobile games developes is building social casual games, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding led by 3one4 Capital with participation from Prime Venture Partners and Gemba zee.

Angel investors such as Anuj Tandon (CEO-Gaming at JetSynthesys), Rahul Bhardwaj (Junglee Games co-founder) and Giri Patil (VP, Engineering at Propertyfinder) also participated in the funding round.

HighXP will use the freshly raised funds to accelerate the growth of its debut game Doodle Me, which is currently available as a free download on Google Play store and Apple App Store as well as help them launch more games. Doodle Me is a social drawing and guessing game designed for players aged 5 and above.

HighXP was founded in 2021 by seasoned industry veterans Shankara Seethappa and Raghu Sankar, who played key roles in the creation of 20 games at well-known gaming developers such as Zynga, Microsoft, and Big Viking Games.

Earlier in March, Simple Viral Games aka SVG, a hyper-casual mobile gaming platform, raised Rs 4 Cr in a pre-seed round led by WEH Ventures, along with participation from Eximius Ventures, PointOne Capital, Force Ventures & a few angels including Ankit Agrawal (Founder & CEO of InsuranceDekho), Prashant Sachan (Founder & CEO of AppsForBharat).

Earlier this month, in a first-of-its-kind study on online gamers in India, it was revealed that the growing trend of gaming is emerging as a career option in India and not just being limited to a means of entertainment. Based on the study, 83% of the respondents consider gaming as either a primary or secondary source of income, highlighting the paradigm shift towards gaming being a viable option that can be pursued professionally.

AIGDF, India's Largest Body for Game Developers, Partners with Law College NLSIU to Host 22nd Edition of Consilience

• The conference is organized by the All India Game Developers’ Forum (AIGDF) in collaboration with the Law and Technology Society (L-Tech), National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore.
• The Conference will explore ideas on how to unlock India's potential to become a global gaming powerhouse.
• The event boasts an impressive line-up of leaders from some of the largest gaming companies in India, such as Krafton, JetSynthesys, MPL, Nodwin Gaming, IndiGG, Mayhem Studios, and many others.
• The event will also host legal experts from NLSIU, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, LawNK, Trilegal, and other esteemed firms, who will share insights on navigating the regulatory landscape.

The All India Game Developers' Forum (AIGDF), the largest body representing Indian online game developers, is gearing up to host its first-ever gaming conference, Consilience 2023, in collaboration with the Law and Technology Society, National Law School of India University, Bangalore. The conference is set to take place on April 21st at the Bangalore International Centre, Bengaluru, and will explore India's burgeoning gaming industry. AIGDF is a not-for-profit collective under the aegis of the All India Gaming Federation (AIGF), the apex industry body for online skill gaming in India.

Consilience 2023 marks the first conference of its kind to be held in the wake of the notification of the new online gaming rules by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The conference will shed light on the legal and regulatory requirements that must be met, growth strategies to be adopted, and policy needs for the industry to reach its full potential.

The speaker lineup boasts some of the biggest names in the Indian gaming industry, such as Sean Hyunil Sohn, CEO, Krafton India; Manish Agarwal, Co-Founder, IndiGG; Sai Srinivas, Co-Founder & CEO, Mobile Premier League (MPL) and Anuj Tandon, CEO - Gaming, JetSynthesys. They will share their insights on how we can make India a global gaming powerhouse in line with our Hon’ble PM’s vision.

Another important topic that will be covered is "New Businesses & Strategic M&A”. Speakers such as Akshat Rathee - Co-Founder, Nodwin Gaming; Anupriya Sinha Das - Head of Corporate Development, Nazara, and Rachit Rastogi - COO, Good Game Exchange (GGX), will explore the challenges and opportunities for new and existing gaming businesses, with a focus on navigating legal, policy, and investment considerations.

The conference will also focus on how businesses can navigate the new regulatory environment and decode the implications of the new online gaming rules. Legal eagles such as Joyjyoti Misra, Group General Counsel, Gameskraft; Ritika Chatterjee - General Counsel, Mayhem Studios and Arun Prabhu - Partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, Law will speak on topics like Taxation in Gaming and Online Gaming Regulations.

Commenting on the conference, Roland Landers, CEO, AIGF, said, “As India's gaming industry continues to grow and mature, we believe it is important to have a platform that brings together diverse voices from various parts of the sector like business, law and technology to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the industry. With the recent regulatory developments in the gaming sector, it is imperative that stakeholders engage in meaningful dialogue to create a progressive and sustainable roadmap for the industry to thrive. We are excited to host this conference and explore innovative ideas to unlock India's potential as a global gaming powerhouse.”

"Consilience has always been a syncretic conference bringing together different perspectives on law and technology. This year, we are proud to host it with AIGDF and bring in the perspective of business into the intersection of Law and Technology,"said Shikhar Sharma, Convenor of the Law and Technology Society 2022-23.

India's online gaming industry has seen remarkable growth over the past few years, thanks to the increasing availability of low-cost smartphones and minimal tariff internet. India is the fastest growing market for gaming which is expected to grow from $2.8 billion in 2022 to $5 billion in 2025. Currently, there are over 500 gaming studios building games for more than 400 million Indian gamers. With the Indian government's recent push to regulate the industry with a progressive framework, gaming will become a key pillar of the country's digital economy and will accelerate the 'Create in India' movement.

For more details about the conference, visit the official website.

Made-in-India Web3 Games Marketplace Tegro Announces $1 Mn Grant for Game Developers

• Web3 games developers can apply for the grant to get up to $25,000 per project
• Successful applicants to learn how to better craft their web3 games from a founding team with deep experience in making games and designing marketplaces with high liquidity

Made-in-India web3 games marketplace Tegro has announced a $1 million grant for web3 game developers. Developers can apply for the grant to get up to $25,000 per project with no strings attached. Successful applicants will receive guidance on how to better craft their web3 games from a founding team with deep experience in making games and designing marketplaces with high liquidity.

"We are excited to invite developers to collaborate with us," says Siddharth Menon, CEO and co-founder of Tegro. "Game development and publishing are in itself complex processes. Developers may not be completely conscientious of the slate of activities behind these words, let alone the complexities involved with building web3 games with economies that are sustainable and can stand the test of time.

 Through the first Tegro grant we hope to bring users a new class of games worthy of actually being games, rather than a collection of poorly cobbled together websites and weak economies that eventually end up being rug pulls.”

Developers can apply for the $1 million grant at the official Tegro site right here.

Along with this, Tegro recently unveiled Tegronomics. This is a set of economic frameworks authored by the stalwarts in the space of crypto, gaming and economics that developers can leverage to build a sustainable and scalable economy in their games.

The economic framework proposes the use of Fungible tokens (FTs) as a core element of economy design based on the belief that game economies should be built on top of FTs as opposed to NFTs to increase both frequency of trading and liquidity, and also making it much easier to deploy large funds.

You can check out more details on Tegronomics and how it can improve web3 game development at the official Tegro website.

Tegro believes that web3 games are the next paradigm shift in gaming, similar to how mobile and free-to-play were. Tegro plans to unlock a $2 trillion market by building a sustainable web3 gaming ecosystem.

Tegro is a web3 games marketplace built by Siddharth Menon, co-founder of WazirX, India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and SuperGaming, India's leading game developer with 300 million users. Siddharth is an expert at building liquidity and markets, while the founders of SuperGaming have been building games for over 10 years and have built over 100+ games including PAC-MAN, Silly Royale, and the upcoming Indus, a made-in-India for-the-world battle royale.