INDIE Live Expo returns
INDIE Live Expo is scheduled for April 25, 2026 and organizers say the broadcast will feature over 200 games plus world premieres, streaming in Japanese, Chinese, English, and Korean (monstervine.com). The showcase claims more than 100 million total views since 2020 and positions itself as a dense discovery event for indie titles (invenglobal.com) (staticmultimedia.com).
INDIE Live Expo will return on April 25, 2026, with organizers promising a livestream packed with more than 200 indie games. (indie.live-expo.games) The show is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. Japan Standard Time on April 25, which is 5:00 a.m. Eastern Time in the United States, and the English broadcast is already listed on YouTube. (youtube.com) Organizers say the program will run in Japanese, Chinese, English, and Korean, and will carry updates, announcements, and world premieres from developers and publishers. (indie.live-expo.games) (gematsu.com) INDIE Live Expo is not a consumer convention with a show floor. It is a digital showcase built to surface a large number of smaller games in one broadcast, a format that became more prominent after 2020 as publishers and event organizers shifted toward online reveals. (indie.live-expo.games) The event’s own numbers show how much it has scaled since then. The official site says the showcase has topped 100 million lifetime views and featured more than 3,100 games since its debut in 2020. (indie.live-expo.games) (youtube.com) That reach has helped the expo carve out a specific role in the games calendar: not replacing platform-holder showcases like Nintendo Direct or State of Play, but giving independent studios a shared stage when visibility is scarce and marketing budgets are small. (indie.live-expo.games) This year’s early lineup points to that breadth. Coverage based on organizer materials says featured games include.45 PARABELLUM BLOODHOUND, while the teaser campaign is built around a much larger slate than the English YouTube placeholder currently describes. (gematsu.com) (youtube.com) The official site calls INDIE Live Expo “one of the largest indie game showcase” events in Asia, and the committee says it was created to increase player awareness of indie games through a volunteer-led board hosted by Ryu’s Office. (indie.live-expo.games) The next test is simple: whether a two-hour window on April 25 can again turn a crowded list of smaller projects into the kind of discovery event that keeps viewers showing up by the millions. (indie.live-expo.games)
