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Playdate。日本語になりました。
Playdate. Now in Japanese.
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(for real, though, this is the kind of surprising magic that happens when you make hardware that's easy to program for, sideloadable, and with a nice SDK!)
No crank? No problem. Playdate originals reimagined for Steam 💫
Featuring...
📺 Blippo+
🛸 HEXA
🥌 office chair curling
👾 Ratcheteer DX
☄️ Suborbital Salvage
Grab the Beyond the Crank bundle at 10% off ⬇️
🛒 https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/74997/Beyond_the_Crank/
🎈 Playdate turns 4 next week (April 18th!!) And we're excited to announce 🥁..... Playdate Season 3 🎉!
Coming later this year. 💫
Heads up! We’re about to make some shifts to Playdate’s production — no, none to Playdate itself — which means a factory pause. Soon, Playdate will be temporarily "sold out”.
Once we're back up, more stock will start to arrive later this year. But if you want a Playdate soon… now's the time to buy.
office chair curling, the world's most anticipated office chair game of the year, is HERE!
Features:
- breathtaking realism
- office chairs
- a broom to sweep the ground
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that's it.
Small addition to the Catalog website: developers can now make Studio pages, showing all their Playdate titles. Check out some heavy hitters:
🐈⬛ https://play.date/games/studios/com.scenicroute/
🐰 https://play.date/games/studios/wtf.rae
✋ https://play.date/games/studios/com.amano
Out now on Catalog..... Crankboy: a high performance Game Boy emulator for your Playdate!
Plus! 4 specially included titles:
👻 Life's Too Short GB
🦖 Dashosaur DX
👾 GBBS95
🎶 Lo-Fi GB, a music album (but for your GB (but really for your Playdate))
👋 We've got 4 wonderfully chaotic Catalog games to share with you today.
All available in the Catalog app on your Playdate, or via the web at https://play.date/catalog 💛
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@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social i think it’s been already pointed out, but there’s really no irony here — unlike iOS, we built the device from day one to allow sideloading from anywhere. catalog is just one, highly-curated storefront, and we’re already very picky about what can go in there. this is just one picky level more.
we would encourage you to make anything you want (with as much AI as you want) and put it anywhere you want, like Itch! lots of people do this all the time!
🆕 NEW! in Playdate Catalog today:
🟨 Waiting for Odysseus
🟨 ROTOLLA MONO
🟨 Hahakigami
🟨 Sugar Cookie Mountain!
Check them out here https://play.date/games or in your Playdate! ✨
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② Roller Blade: it's Tiny Wings, on steroids, with a gun and a sword! Face hordes of enemies while navigating increasingly treacherous terrain. Don't let yourself get pinned down by the occasional boss!
☁️ https://play.date/games/rollerblade/
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① Scour the land to help a narrow-sighted cyclops find his way home and reunite with his love.
👁️ https://play.date/games/eye-to-eye/
Devils on the Moon is out now on Catalog!!
Themed on the astrologically Occult, this single board VG-Pinball won 🏆️ Most Anticipated Game of 2025 at the Playdate Community Awards!
Flip your way through 3 different zones and discover over 50 different demons to summon!
Folks that have bought new Playdates: we know you’ve had trouble registering them, and we apologize. :(
The good news: REGISTRATION IS WORKING NOW so please try and register again -as soon as possible-
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③ Strive for precision and cut objects exactly in half in three game modes: Chill, Arcade, and Flawless. Cutting things in two is easy. Cutting them in half, however, is not.
🔪 https://play.date/games/halbierung/
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④ Gyrochord is a fully‑featured synth engine and drum machine for the Playdate, designed to be immediately musical for beginners while still capable for professionals.
🎧 https://play.date/games/gyrochord/
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① Geodate is a daily geography challenge in the palm of your hand! Piece together the visual clues and mark your best guess on the world map.
🗺️ https://play.date/games/geodate/
The incredibly fun hit game Dig! Dig! Dino! from Playdate Season Two is coming to PC! Everyone's gonna dig this
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① Will lovable rogue Beampunk manage to save humanity? Jump from system to system and charge your giant laser cannon to fight off a fleet of invading ships with some acrobatic crank-piloted combat!
👨🎤 https://play.date/games/beampunk/
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③ Crankominoes: A pentomino puzzle game made just for Playdate! Complete over 50 puzzles of various shapes composed with 12 pentominoes.
🧩 https://play.date/games/crankominoes/
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② Take careful aim with your portals to solve platforming puzzles, defy death, and restore Faedum to its rightful glory!
👸 https://play.date/games/the-princess-and-the-portals/
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③ Two players. One console. Zero hassle! Share the screen with a friend and compete shoulder-to-shoulder in intense arcade action.
🏓 https://play.date/games/paddle-vs-paddle/
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③ The Last Ball is a simple, relaxing puzzle game with an incremental feel. Knock the balls off the board and leave only one.
⚫ https://play.date/games/the-last-ball/
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③ No score. No puzzle. No goal. Just a chaotic system, a crank, and whatever you bring to it.
🌀https://play.date/games/chaos-studies/
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① Merry Andrew is a fast-paced medieval carnival reflex game. Obey the commands from the cymbal-clashing monkey, Merry Andrew, in order to keep him performing. The higher your score, the ‘grander’ the show...
🐒 https://play.date/games/merry-andrew/
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⑤ Turn your Playdate into a small desk companion with PicoTimer! Designed to feel natural and immediate, use the crank to adjust the countdown for the ultimate distraction-free timer!
⌛ https://play.date/games/picotimer/
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④ Guide a cosmic serpent in Astrophidia, an arcade action game inspired by the classic Snake combined with a Match twist!
🐍 https://play.date/games/astrophidia/
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④ Stack coins on a grid, merge matching values, and build your fortune across four charming villages in this cozy coin-merging puzzle game.
🪙 https://play.date/games/bear-coin-blitz/
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① It's your first day on the job, and things aren't going as planned... Dodge flying cakes and snappy crocodiles to keep the show going and the audience entertained!
🤡 https://play.date/games/unicycle-madness/
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② Capture the bricks, flummox The Pile. What? Dead easy. Prevent the Pile from extending beyond the confines of the screen.....
🧱 https://play.date/games/flummox/
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③ An alien invasion threatens to destroy all life on Playtopia and Crank Defense Force remote missile pilots are the planet's last hope. Launch rockets from your silos to defend against the incoming attack, and guide them to their targets.
🚀 https://play.date/games/crank-defense-force/
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...And from the archives 💫
❶ You're Gonna Miss the Bus! is an endless runner where you play as a kid trying to make it to the bus on time.
🚌 https://play.date/games/ygmtb/
❷ In Lillybug, play as a little firefly who is the only thing standing in the way of an army of termites
🪲 https://play.date/games/lillybug/
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② Blop is your one-of-a-kind, real-time virtual pet life sim! Blop keeps living even when you are away. Check in throughout the day to feed them, clean them, and keep them happy and healthy!
👾 https://play.date/games/blop-your-virtual-buddy/
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⑤ Crankwords is a daily word game for Playdate. Find all the words within the letters in 5 minutes, and compare your score to your friends with online scoreboards.
🔠 https://play.date/games/crankwords/
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④ Turn your Playdate 90°, go fast on your skateboard and compete in São Paulo's newest downhill competition in Ladeira Abaixo (Down the Hill?) to go as far as you can!
🛹 https://play.date/games/ladeira-abaixo/
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And from the Catalog archive...
① In To Dust, search the spirit world for answers to the disappearance of a fellow scientist.
👻 https://play.date/games/to-dust/
② CodeWordPlay is a four letter word puzzle game. Crack codes to earn coins!
🔠 https://play.date/games/codewordplay/
Playdates for sale at PAX Land! Find them at the iam8bit booth!
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② In Cannonball Kid, create a path that lets you destroy the alien invading spaceships in this pathfinding puzzle shooting game!
👾 https://play.date/games/cannonball-kid/
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@Leonick@social.vivaldi.net it’s not necessarily “ok” — the developer must disclose the scope of any ai code use (from “debugging lua” to “vibe-coded from scratch”), which we factor into our review process (Catalog is highly curated, since sideloading is possible), and which will be listed on the store page so the consumer can decide if they wish to avoid it. since we’re the only (?) digital storefront to regulate Ai use, we’ll be discussing all of this constantly, too. humans figuring a thing out! :)
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@stephann@mastodon.gamedev.place At this point, we've got thing more or less in place for S3; that said, it's never a bad idea to reach out to us! We can be flexible at times 🙂
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and relive the fun of...
Tau - A tubular shooter played entirely with the crank!
https://play.date/games/tau/
In a world made of toast, you are the best, the only one. You are part of the Tartine's Show.
https://play.date/games/the-tartines-show/
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⑤ Run a classic burger joint in Order Up, a retro inspired block matching puzzle game. Match toppings to keep your restaurant clean while building burgers to keep your customers happy and to rake in those tasty points!
🍔 https://play.date/games/order-up/
