This jam is now over. It ran from 2025-07-28 03:00:00 to 2025-08-09 03:00:00. View results

The Blackout Jam

What happens when the lights go out?
The Blackout Jam is all about fear, isolation, and the unknown. Power’s gone. You're alone. And something’s not right.

Build a game that thrives in darkness; literal or metaphorical. Maybe it’s survival horror, maybe it's something deeper.
Broken tech, analog fear, twisted memories, lost time; whatever lives in the blackout, let it crawl out.

Just don’t forget the flashlight.

Rules
Solo or team, any engine, any genre
New or unfinished projects welcome
Must loosely follow the theme of blackout
No NSFW or offensive content (Itch’s standard rules)
Late submissions allowed for a bit—just ask



Ideas & Prompts
A town that loses power, and something slips through

A game where the player literally or metaphorically blacks out

Dread creeping in via flickering lights, lost time, corrupted memories

A horror game set during a storm, or a solar event, or inside your own mind

Or just something weird and dark and cool, go wild

Discord: https://discord.gg/jRFmFvcGu8

Submissions(11)

All submissions
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Browser playable (3)
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Windows (7)
macOS (2)
Linux (1)

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A time management horror game
Survival
A Short Jam Submission
Survival
Short horror game taking place in a convience store
FPS game with Echolocation to navigate space
Shooter
Don't idle, Don't stare, Don't forget
Survival
Scary Sewer Game
Survival
Play in browser
Doc & Bean really overdid themselves with this one.
Survival
this game is GONE
Puzzle
Play in browser