You can tell how much trouble we had picking favourites from how many wound up sharing the winner's image. Thank you for your patience, and without further ado.

The WINNERS of the 2026 HAVOC ENGINE JAM are:

Voting Winners:

Bone to Pick

Father Octopodes

Red Star

Chant's Seal of Approval:

Masamune

Dead and Breakfast

Hedge Knight Hustle

Grant's Seal of Approval:

Bone to Pick

FATHER OCTOPODES

Asphalt Overdrive

Search and Rescue Sector 22B

Free Like the Moon

Bump!

JAMS!

Jim's Seal of Approval:

Killer Crips 3000

Green the Grid

Arachno-Nerds!!

I'll contact all the winners over the next few days to arrange delivery of your Deeply Official Jam Winner Certificates and their attendant Seals of Approval, to be applied if wished to your game.

We'll be wrapping everything up over the next few weeks, but that's the bulk of the preserve jarred, so here's my soppy end of jam message. It's hard to communicate what a pleasure seeing this jam develop has been! There's games at earlier stages of development in that jam forum that I deeply hope see the light of day, reams and reams of carefully considered feedback and design thinking between itch and the discord, and literally hundreds of pages of original game design. I'd like to give a particular shoutout to HogwartsHoe, for leaving a substantial comment on every single game. Well done all.

With thanks,

Jim