Popular games built on game engine GB Studio

Something seems odd when you can't find your faithful friend Squee in the morning. The forest is ill and you'll need your squirrel friend's help to save the animal spirits. Use your witchy powers to discover the true cause of this turmoil and save the forest from its nightmare.

A reimagination of Sonic 1 into a game boy color RPG

A historically rich and emotionally immersive Game Boy adventure. Vermeer's Twilight is an intimate and atmospheric journey into the mind of the painter Johannes Vermeer, set in the final years of his life. As the world around him changes and the golden age of Dutch art fades into uncertainty, the painter wanders through his home and the streets of Delft, reliving his greatest works and confronting the struggles of a life devoted to art. Explore the house and the city, uncover forgotten memories, and collect the paintings that define an era. Will Vermeer find meaning in the fading light, or will it vanish like the colors on his empty canvas?

Back in January of 2022, Robert Dorman released a video on Art Carts. He asked the question "What would a book look like on a Game Boy". I was inspired by this thought and the end result is this - "The Ungrateful Son" by the Brothers Grimm, adapted for the Game Boy.

Squarenose has been diligently working for Doctor Megan in the True Pasta laboratories, where genetically modified animals have been testing experimental new pet food. The perfect formula will be used to produce meaty rings that will be eaten by cats and dogs in our sweet homes. But disaster has struck as the experimental pet food has driven the animals into a wild frenzy; surely it is foul play! Old Ram, the leader in the pet food market, will stop at nothing to maintain its dominance in the lucrative industry. Can Squarenose survive the relentless aggression of the wild animals that are approaching?

A rogue-like dungeon crawler for the Game Boy Color. Roll dice to move across randomised sets of regions, employing whatever random selection of treasures, abilities and paths you come across to strategically push through to respite. Learn tactics, earn trophies, and push to improve your high score as you uncover what little information you can about the curse that looms over the land.

Explore a strange hotel and try to uncover the truth behind a mysterious murder as Detective Walker Rylance. Talk to the hotel staff and guests while reliving the final moments of the victim(s) in this surreal horror adventure game. Oh, there are block puzzles too.

Ryan's Veeder's Mud Warriors is a narrative adventure game with a focus on story and exploration. It is also a Gameboy adaptation of Ryan's original text adventure game.

A little naughty and bizarre Top-down ACT! Advance through a total of 20 stages while defeating enemies. The key to victory is to assess the actions of the enemies appearing from 4 directions! Take aim and draw your bow while paying attention to obstacles such as trees and logs on the map.

Vampire Night Shift is a small adventure game about working the night shift at a convenience store. Also, you are a vampire.

A demake of Persona 5 for the Game Boy.

Collect, Battle, and face the final Elites! Your home city has been taken over for the biggest and best tournament! BUMPERS & BROADSWORDS MINI has 40 unique and balanced Bumpers - the trick lies in choosing which 4 you want, and which will synergise in the most powerful ways!

Dog's Muck Island is a short Gameboy game inspired by Link's Awakening's fetch quest. Play in your browser or on a real Gameboy or Analogue Pocket.

Worried about your friend, you stop by his apartment to check in on him...only to discover he's nowhere to be seen and the apartment is barricaded and bloodied. See You... is a horror-themed Game Boy Color point & click prototype that lasts only a few minutes.

Jaja is growing old and needs to find an apprentice that will take over her role. But her search brings her into new troubles. She now has to help people from the nearby village get rid of the strange nightmares that were haunting the forest.

Monster of the Weekend is a short, lighthearted adventure/virtual pet game, where what you feed to your little monster will determine how it grows and changes.

Fishin' for Average Caucasian Boyfriends is a semi-autobiographical Game Boy game about expectations, queerness, and the possibility of dreaming bigger.

Bubble Frog DX is a fun and challenging short Action Puzzle game where you take on the role of a Frog in a Bubble who's been tasked to save 160 Onigiri from all kinds of hazards across 50 levels and 4 colorful zones in this retro throwback title!

Fight your coworkers to leave on time!

Press the B button to cuss.

Precrna Rupa ("Too Black of a Hole" in English) is a short narrative adventure game with a metroidbrainia twist, set in the streets of Zagreb, Croatia. Inspired by POYY, the punk album by Croatian artist IDEM, the game adapts the record's themes, stories, and music into an interactive experience. Players explore the city, talk to its inhabitants, gather information, and connect seemingly unrelated details to progress through the story. Developed for the Nintendo Game Boy, Precrna Rupa can be played on original hardware, compatible devices, emulators, and directly in a web browser through its Itch.io page. Available in both Croatian and English, it is the first Game Boy game ever released in the Croatian language.

In 1985, the Darling brothers released a unique game creation utility for the Commodore 16 and Plus/4: Games Designer. At a time when programming knowledge was often a barrier, this tool filled a vital gap by giving young enthusiasts the chance to build their own games with little to no coding experience. It was a groundbreaking effort in bringing game development to a wider audience—especially kids who dreamed of creating their own digital worlds. The original release included three example games, designed to showcase what could be achieved with the software: Space Desert, Creature Crawl, and Road Stunner. This collection brings those titles together once more—both as a tribute to early creativity and as a snapshot of an era when imagination was just beginning to merge with interactivity on home computers.