Our Spooky Jam for 2026 has ended, and we're excited to share the winners!
The theme for the jam was 'Lucky Last' and we received 73 entries and 985 community ratings, leading to 4 prize winners and 8 runner ups. The 4 prize award categories were:
- Overall Winner
- 1 Pack Challenge
- Comedy Challenge
- Community Choice
All the jam entries were played by a panel of Synty Staff, and winners were selected based on their interpretations of the categories above, except the Community Choice which was rated by fellow players on Itch. Without further ado, we're excited to present the winning entries for this jam!
OVERALL WINNER: Wheel of Misfortune
Runners Up: Dead Unfair and Deathly Deeds
One Pack Challenge Winner: Lucky Last Heir
Runners Up: Off By One and Wheel of Misfortune
Comedy Challenge Winner: Super Slasher Racing
Runners Up: In the Dead of the Knife and DEATH TAKES FIRST
Community Vote Winner: In the Dead of the Knife
Community 2nd Place: Wheel of Misfortune
Community 3rd Place: Dead Unfair
Congratulations to all the winners and a big thank you to everyone who entered the jam and/or rated other entries! The voting between Synty Staff was exceptionally close across the entries, with so many high quality and awesome games made! As always, we really appreciate the effort each and every one of you put in, and hope you took away some new skills and learnings in the process.
If you haven't had a chance to check out all the entries for this jam on Itch, we highly encourage you to pop over and take a look and leave some comments!
If you’d like to take part in a Synty Jam in the future, be sure to join our amazing Community of aspiring and professional developers over on Discord! And stay tuned for announcements over on our social channels – Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky.
