TOKYO INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2025, hosted by Phoenixx Inc., will be held from March 8 to March 9 in Kichijoji, Japan, and the event’s full schedule has been made available.
The TOKYO INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2025 event will feature more than 100 games during its stage shows and livestreams, designated by Day 1 (Business Day) and Day 2 (Public Day). These games include Deperson, Building Relationships, Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo, One Turn Kill, Wanderdawn, IZON., and Byte Survivor, to name a few.
The full schedule for TOKYO INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2025 is listed below:
TOKYO INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2025 Stages, Schedule and Livestream
Main MCs
- Hiromi Tanito – Saturday, March 8 (Business Day)
- Penko – Sunday, March 9 (Public Day)
March 8 (Business Day) – All Times in JST
- Program 1 – Opening of TOKYO INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2025 (13:30 – 13:45) – This is the opening of the indie game event “TOKYO INDIE GAMES SUMMIT”, which aims to be “a place where the talents of various creators, mainly indie games, come together and become an opportunity to aim for the top”.
- Cast: Yasuhiro Komino (Mayor of Musashino) and Kazunori Sakamoto (Phoenixx)
- Program 2 – “Indie Game Creator Support Project” Stage Presented by PTW/ADOOR (14:00 – 14:45) – The PTW Group, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, has launched a new creator support project with the aim of revitalizing the indie game market! Taking advantage of the achievements cultivated in debugging and verification, the details of the project, which fully backs up indie game creators, will be released for the first time on this stage!
- Cast: Toshinori Yagi (ADOOR), Teppei Komiya (PTW) and Yusuke Kobayashi (Hibiki)
- Program 3 – Indie Game Journal TIGS Special Stage Vol.1 (15:00 – 15:45) – “Indie Game Journal” picks up the hottest titles from the “TOKYO INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2025” lineup! We will deliver the attractiveness of a must-see title to the indie game fans while actually playing it at the stage. This is your chance to meet your “favorites” that you don’t know about yet! Experience the passion of the creators and discover new possibilities for the indie games!
- Cast: Kakumitsu Ohtsuka (IGJ Chief Editor) and Narihisa Oda (Phoenixx）
- Program 4 – TIGS2025 Business Day Special Session Talks about the Indie Game Publishing (16:00 – 17:00) – The finale of the Day 1 of “TOKYO INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2025” will be a crosstalk between indie game publishers who have supported many indie games as publishers, supported creators, and released many excellent games to the world. A talk stage where independent indie publishers talk about what can only be talked about here.
- Cast: Shuhei Yoshida (Former Head of SIE Indie Initiative), Shunji Mizutani (PLAYISM), and Kazunori Sakamoto (Phoenixx)
March 9 (Public Day) – All Times in JST
- Program 1 – NIJISANJI Liver participating the battle to decide the Kichijoji Pirate King! (11:30 – 12:30) – A special event will be held to determine the Pirate King in a heated battle between teams from the general public. The spectacular pirate world will be the stage for heated battles that make full use of strategy and skill. The popular VTuber group NIJISANJI will also participate in the event!
- NIJISANJI cast: Hajime Shibuya, Mao Mahotsukai, Sophia Valentine, and Tachiden
- Program 2 – A match to decide Japan No.1 with competitive RTS, “Jelly Troops”. Slime Master wanted! 〜 presented by GYAAR Studio (12:45 – 13:45) – We will hold a tournament to determine the best player in Japan, for the competitive real-time strategy game “Jelly Troops”! Players uses their own strategies to steal each other’s flags. The thrilling matches you will see on the screen are sure to send the audience into a whirlpool of excitement! You won’t miss a single minute or a second, and we hope you will experience the charm of a game with a simple yet deep strategy!
- “Jelly Troops” is the winner of the 2nd GYAAR Studio Indie Game Contest. GYAAR Studio TIGS2025ステージ特設ペ https://indie.bandainamcostudios.com/tigs2025/stage
- Cast: Waken (Jelly Troops Developer), Shohei Taguchi, Yu Sasahara, and Indie Life Streamers
- Program 3 – Indie Game Journal TIGS Special Stage Vol.2 (14:00 – 14:45) – “Indie Game Journal” picks up the hottest titles from the “TOKYO INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2025” lineup! We will deliver the attractiveness of a must-see title to the indie game fans while actually playing it at the stage. This is your chance to meet your “favorites” that you don’t know about yet! Experience the passion of the creators and discover new possibilities for the indie games!
- Cast: Kakumitsu Ohtsuka (IGJ Chief Editor) and Narihisa Oda (Phoenixx)
- Program 4 – Special stage by “Dark character love comedy” (15:00 – 15:45) – Special stage to deliver information on “Dark character love comedy” which all the participants of the game is dark character! There is also information that can only be heard here, such as the behind-the-scenes story of the recording site and the secret story of development by the voice actors and developers! I have no choice but to see…!
- Cast: Genki Muro, Ryota Iwasaki, and Joseff
- Program 5 – TOKYO INDIE GAMES SUMMIT AWARD supported by BS Asahi (16:00 – 17:00) – The “TOKYO INDIE GAMES SUMMIT AWARD Supported by BS Asahi” will be held to celebrate unique indie games created by creators around the world! We will select works that combine creativity and innovation to open up a new future for the gaming industry.
- Cast: Kazunori Sakamoto (Phoenixx), Shuhei Yoshida (Former Representative of SIE Indie Initiative), and Crystal Noda
Disclosure: Final Weapon is an official media partner of TOKYO INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2025.
