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A revamped classic now for handheld devices!
Halo: Combat Devolved is a fan-made demake of Halo: Combat Evolved that reimagines the game as an 8-bit, Game Boy Color-style action title. The game adapts elements from the original Halo into a top-down perspective, featuring simplified visuals and gameplay inspired by classic handheld games. Early builds include the levels Pillar of Autumn and Halo, along with recognizable weapons and enemies from the original release.
It’s 1999, and something electric is in the air. A malevolent force has crept into New Crunchy City, wreaking havoc on its technology, and tragically destroying the Anime Club’s precious DVD/VCR combo player. Now Crunchyroll-Hime must travel through the haunted forest, rescue her friends, and fight these sinister villains if she’s to save the NCC Anime Club. Can you root out the dastardly cretin brazen enough to ruin their meeting—all before time runs out?
In a calm, small city, there's a young human called Ari who moved there recently, and works with delivery. Which is a fairly easy job -- you receive your order, meet with your client, and then you deliver the package. Or so it should be-- Embark with Ari in this hectic day for delivery services, in a game full of (bad) puns, cute art and an overall feeling of wholesomeness in a game of around 1 hour of gameplay!
A slightly naughty GBC-style roguelike RPG! Let's go through the tower, which has up to 15 floors, defeating enemies as you go. Every step you take Every time you advance, enemies in the same room will also move and attack you. At times, enemies that send acid or fireballs flying or traps may block your way. You must decide how to act and win the game.
Magic and Legend: Star Seekers is an arcade platformer with the goal of collecting stars across multiple levels themed on locations around the world with a variety of other game styles in between. The second in a planned trilogy of homebrew games.
The Metamorphosis Collection contains three original horror games, linked together by the theme of transformation. Explore the depths of human psychology with these stories crafted by the award-winning game designer Ben Jelter. Just be careful… as you play, you may find yourself transformed as well! Opossum Country In Opossum Country, you play as a food delivery guy who needs to make a delivery at a trailer park. What seems like another day at work quickly unravels. Can he complete his delivery or will his curiosity lead to his ultimate demise? Decline In Decline, you play as an elderly police detective on the verge of retirement. Wrestling with cognitive decline, she attempts to solve the seemingly simple case. Though, things may not be as they seem as rumors spread about something called the ‘Glitch Witch’… Specimen 134 In Specimen 134, you play as a regular kid named Jason who starts to notice some very unusual things going on in his town. His friend David asks him if he wants to explore the woods but he might not like what he finds there…
Melanie and the Magic Forest is a relaxing, no combat Game Boy adventure game filled with magic, quirky characters, and late 90's/early 2000’s references. Explore the Magic Forest as Melanie and help your fellow residents. Grow some vegetables, make new friends, and most importantly - pet the dog!
Fido needs regular nourishment to keep up strength. Strength is used to wag the tail and the tail is used to stop the moles from digging holes. Simply bash the moles on the head with the tail when sitting down.
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?
A short game about death.
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.
The Darkness Guild is lost in Unknown Space! Go on a top down, bite-sized adventure and blast off to three far out planets. Explore Unknown Space from your ship and collect resources to change the ship's look for the climactic Shoot 'Em Up battle! Do you have what it takes escape from Unknown Space?
The Little Tales of Alexandria is a retro short story driven exploration game for Gameboy and Analogue pocket. Staging inside the apartment block Alexandria, featuring 15 plus different apartments all with their own tale to tell. Talk to the tenants, and interact with almost ANYTHING and EVERYTHING in and out of there homes, including cats!
Marron's Day is a silly adventure game where you're a bunny! You love your friends but love carrots even more. Explore the town, run errands for your animal friends, and don't let anyone catch you swiping the carrots from the garden (again)!
A classic 90's adventure that will keep you in suspense will make you smile at times and will thrill you in every moment!
You play as Dotty, a cute little ladybug who can shoot glitter from her fingertips!
Pocket Aquarium is a virtual pet sim where you collect new fish to feed and play with every day!
Fishin' for Average Caucasian Boyfriends is a semi-autobiographical Game Boy game about expectations, queerness, and the possibility of dreaming bigger.
Retrospekt bring to you this virtual tour through the annual AVCon Adelaide and Video Games Festival’s 2019 event. Take a trip through gaming history and learn along the way as you experience this pixelated recreation of the Retro Gaming Museum.
A homebrew port of Blastar, developed by Elon Musk (at the age of 12) for the Spectravision in 1984. In this game you have to destroy an alien space freighter, which is carrying deadly Hydrogen Bombs and Status Beam Machines. This game make good use of sprites and animation, and in this sense makes the listing worth checking out.
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.
He Fucked The Girl Out Of Me is a semi-autobiographical narrative visual novel about trauma and sex work made for the GameBoy. The author explains how sex work impacted her life and changed her perception of the world. The game takes approximately 40 minutes to play from start to finish.