Want new games to download? Here’s 8 Indonesian mobile game developers to watch

Indonesia is a big mobile market, especially for games. The country has 41 million smartphone users as well as six million tablet owners in 2013. Furthermore, it is estimated that 30 million (almost half) of Indonesia’s internet users are teenagers. They’d definitely love to find more new games to play from time to time.

Worry not because there are a lot of top Indonesian mobile game developers to help you kill some time. Here are eight of them (sorted in alphabetical order):

1. Alegrium

Alegrium has consistently created great-looking games which have been played by more than 15 million users across the world. Founded in 2011, the Jakarta-based startup now has nine iOS games and three Android games for you to download, including the famous Icon Pop series with titles like Icon Pop Quiz, Icon Pop Brand, and Icon Pop Song.

Game we recommend: Any game in the Icon Pop series! You can start with Icon Pop Quiz (iOS, Android, free)

(See: Indonesian game dev gets unexpected props from Korean atar PSY)

2. Kidalang

These Bandung-based “puppet masters” want to showcase their storytelling prowess using games. The startup has released two titles for the same series: Sage Fusion and Sage Fusion 2. Both are RPGs which put an emphasis on a gripping sci-fi story plots.

Kidalang won a hefty US$200,000 from the Tizen App Challenge, which recognized Sage Fusion 2 as the grand prize winner in the RPG category.

Game we recommend: Sage Fusion 2 (iOS, BlackBerry 10, Mac, US$2.99)

3. Maximize Games

Besides developing iOS and Android games, Medan-based Maximize Games also builds games for PCs (with Big Fish Games as publisher). The team’s mobile games mostly revolve around the puzzle and education genre.

4. Menara Games

5. Own Games

6. Tinker Games

7. Toge Productions

8. Touchten Games