SpawnJam 23 · It's Getting Hot In Here · Bonus: Biggest Meltdown · 11/19 judged · 8 on queue (break in progress)

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“It’s Getting Hot In Here”
Bonus: Biggest Meltdown · 11 of 19 entries judged · 8 queued · Generated 8/6/2026, 6:49:43 AM
#1

The burning of men

by abbidabbi
▶ Play on Spawn
Screenshot of The burning of men
Overall8.8
Meltdown8/10
Humor8/10
Fun10/10
Polish9/10
Originality9/10
Theme Fit: Perfect
Replay? Yes
Verdict: Top Contender
Standout: people screaming while im burning them to death
Notes: Yo this is one of the best games that I've seen on spawn so far and the fact that you did it in three days is a Monumental accomplishment. I will absolutely play this again and I look forward to what you do with it once you get your rent back on it, Great job abbi!
#2

SPAWNSTER: ASH REACH

by annias
▶ Play on Spawn
Screenshot of SPAWNSTER: ASH REACH
Overall8.4
Meltdown10/10
Humor6/10
Fun10/10
Polish8/10
Originality8/10
Theme Fit: Perfect
Replay? Yes
Verdict: Top Contender
Standout: when the spaceship takes off from the planet after victory is sweet
Notes: Yeah this is me
#3

Bad Reactions

by BadgerBlunts
▶ Play on Spawn
Screenshot of Bad Reactions
Overall8.0
Meltdown8/10
Humor7/10
Fun9/10
Polish8/10
Originality8/10
Theme Fit: Decent
Replay? Yes
Verdict: Top Contender
Standout: When the big elite dude came out the portal, i was like oh shiiiiiiit
Notes: Had a great time, there is a lot going on very procedural generated emergent madness and i love that kind of thing. Definitely going to play again! Only criticism is just add some more intuitive UX so that things are just obvious and natural to learn. Great job!
#4

reactor 7

by fcxhx8
▶ Play on Spawn
Screenshot of reactor 7
Overall8.0
Meltdown9/10
Humor6/10
Fun8/10
Polish9/10
Originality8/10
Theme Fit: Perfect
Replay? Yes
Verdict: Strong
Standout: as soon as the shaders hit when the game started my jaw dropped
Notes: this is excellent, i love the aesthetic, the nuance is excellent. im not entirely sure on the UX because it wasn't immediately clear what i am supposed to do at times. that being said, i actually dont mind not being spoonfed everything and just having to learn by experience so no problem there. cool af game love it
#5

Be Someone

by shadow_wizard_45
▶ Play on Spawn
Screenshot of Be Someone
Overall7.8
Meltdown2/10
Humor10/10
Fun9/10
Polish8/10
Originality10/10
Theme Fit: Weak
Replay? Yes
Verdict: Top Contender
Standout: everything omfg this is amazing, doesnt have anything to do with the jam theme but its dope
Notes: really impressive for only a few days and one of the most interesting concepts for agame ive ever seen
#6

Emberline

by djdef1le
▶ Play on Spawn
Screenshot of Emberline
Overall7.8
Meltdown10/10
Humor4/10
Fun8/10
Polish8/10
Originality9/10
Theme Fit: Decent
Replay? Yes
Verdict: Strong
Standout: yeah Just seeing this scale of the forest fires kind of intimidating and really cool
Notes: Oh my Lord there is a book in the front page, First impression. So I finally kind of got to handle what was going on there was a little bit of jerky UI that was kind of pushing me around. I like being able to put out the fire and get down there and move around with it I feel like maybe the rate at which I was earning embers is a little slow compared to like the price of the upgrades and stuff it seems like it was going to be a long slug but you know it's fine I mean that's not a problem its ok to have a difficult game. I would love to try out that water bomber thing that sounds amazing but i dont have the patience to wait to upgrade it :D
#7

Molten Throne

by chucky
▶ Play on Spawn
Screenshot of Molten Throne
Overall7.0
Meltdown5/10
Humor4/10
Fun9/10
Polish8/10
Originality9/10
Theme Fit: Strong
Replay? Maybe
Verdict: Top Contender
Standout: the lightning ball spell from the blue character was incredible
Notes: so that was a sick experience cool game. i have a couple comments such as please make the character change a little more obvious than the tiny view details button that then shows them, and when i dieid when i was one wave 1 of the 2nd tower it respawned me at like the beginning and i had no chance to really get back to defend properly so im not sure if that was intentional or not otherwise super enjoy the experience and will play again! ❤️
#8

Belly of the beast

by goblinjo
▶ Play on Spawn
Screenshot of Belly of the beast
Overall6.8
Meltdown2/10
Humor7/10
Fun8/10
Polish8/10
Originality9/10
Theme Fit: Weak
Replay? Maybe
Verdict: Solid
Standout: Feeding the big mountain thing is kind of weird and cool
Notes: All right Joe this is a super weird one and also definitely your most intricate game that I played so far. Your monsters are grotesque and weird and I love that great job on the modeling and animations. The UI is pretty cool I like to inventory I mean obviously we only get a couple days so there's a lot of stuff I'd like to see but so far so good. I feel a little underpowered but I mean obviously you don't want a game to be too easy so the balance is on the side of not too easy which is good And I'll take a little bit more of a journey to this you know after I get through all the rest of these thanks so much.
#9

Bug Sweeper

by jissi
▶ Play on Spawn
Screenshot of Bug Sweeper
Overall6.4
Meltdown9/10
Humor5/10
Fun5/10
Polish7/10
Originality6/10
Theme Fit: Strong
Replay? Maybe
Verdict: Solid
Standout: The intro cinematic and scene setup was righteously dope
Notes: So I really was blown away by the intro in this game Jesse, Really great cinematics and like scene set up and kind of just made sense and was really shocking like I had a little bit of a woah. When the game actually starts with the menu the title screen and all that I was a little overwhelmed with the information but you did spell things out pretty well and I realized quite quickly that once I started the game I was playing Minecraft With some bugs in a nuclear reactor kind of added on. I didn't enjoy having the game regularly like penalize me and like stop and make me just watch a timer go down cuz I feel like it was just kind of wasting time that I could be enjoying myself doing something so maybe a different way to penalize people for whatever that's about would be cool other than Making them stare at the screen. otherwise I think the polish is pretty cool and yeah solid entry
#10

Hot Core

by Clintmod
▶ Play on Spawn
Screenshot of Hot Core
Overall4.2
Meltdown3/10
Humor3/10
Fun4/10
Polish6/10
Originality5/10
Theme Fit: Decent
Replay? Maybe
Verdict: Pass
Standout: Kinda that i don't know what to do, maybe im slow
Notes: All right so I just loaded up hot for and I have a few issues. The first one is that the UI that immediately pops up is going out of the screen on the top of the screen. Second the UI doesn't seem to want to go away and I couldn't really figure out what I was supposed to be doing I mean I see that it says I'm supposed to click on reactors to hit R I hit r i see the reactor menu but i'm really not sure what's going on in general yet. When I go up some of the stairs I'll see you like the next stairs level but there's no apron in front of it to allow me to get to it And I've been playing for a few minutes but I don't really know what's going on and I can't seem to figure out like what the objective is or how to do the thing that I'm supposed to do. I do like the way that the Lord is set up in like the kind of Parkour It whatever weird setup that you have going on here but I just don't know what to do.
#11

Wax Arson

by rambo
▶ Play on Spawn
Screenshot of Wax Arson
Overall1.0
Meltdown1/10
Humor1/10
Fun1/10
Polish1/10
Originality1/10
Theme Fit: Decent
Replay? Maybe
Verdict: Interesting
Standout: unfortunately it's getting caught in the loading screen for me
Notes: unfortunately it's getting caught in the loading screen for me, look forward to checking it out when it's not glitching, something to do with one of savi's updates maybe

Still on the queue

8 submissions waiting for Earthside scores. Open any game, play, then score it in the evaluator when we resume.

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Solar Shift

by taytrav13

Among-Us-style multiplayer at a solar facility — Crew vs Slackers, meetings, tasks, sabotage before the Sun ends it.

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Last Flight Out

by lazydev

Civ-style hex singleplayer — keep global temperature low long enough to launch humanity's last ark.

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Shogun Tactics

by gaba

Fire Emblem-inspired turn-based tactics — Crane house vs Iron Ash, endless survival under spreading fire.

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Fire Nuke Island

by wfbcargo

Anti-cozy village vacation — burn the island down, then sail into the sunset.

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Hot Potato

by wakkin

4v4 HOT vs COLD — throw heated cores into the reactor or freeze the other team out.

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Special Professional Flame Retardant Services Co.

by maine

Friendslop firefighter co-op in Blobsville — hose, truck, outfits, save civilians.

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Not scored yet

WickWorks

by seele

User-generated molten platformer levels — 111 parts, machines, rising melt clock, publish after you beat it.

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Meltdown Shift

by NickDiazOfNauts

Co-op FPS job sim — fix Soviet-era plant faults for cash, hold integrity, roof sprint if it goes.

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