Popular games built on game engine GB Studio
An unofficial Game Boy demake of The Maze.
A Life Sim RPG set in an isolated village. Train and master a variety of skills, collecting resources and rewards as you complete quests, upgrade your home, and discover the secrets of the village of Amberly.
The Hardest Quest of All: Asking Her Out
The popular MMO Final Fantasy XI, now for the Game Boy! Featuring 30+ areas and 20+ songs rendered in an authentic gameboy fashion!
Welcome back to the nostalgic Old Alentejo. In this historical 19th-century European western, help Gildo, Dolores, and Pepe in their quest to fight Baron Tinto and his oppressive laws. To do so, you’ll need to cross the historic border, explore new locations, discover more items, allies, and… new enemies! The Tinto has never meant so much to so many people in so many ways!
Nyghtmare: The Ninth King is a dark-fantasy, classic-vania, action-platform game that aims to make an authentic Game Boy [COLOR] retro feel that is as close as possible to the original.
P.T./Silent Hills is quite possibly the most anticipated, controversial, and discussed games ever made. Like many others, I was heartbroken to hear that the game was cancelled, and that Hideo Kojima had left Konami. This is an homage to that great playable teaser in the style of the GameBoy Color.
Made in Game Boy studio 3.0.3, play a small segment of the catacombs and enjoy skeletons, bats and bone pillars getting in your way as you attempt to level up and farm candles for random drops of hearts, healing potions and the knife sub weapon.
You are a lone Xzapper, last survivor of an advanced civilisation.Many centuries ago, your planet was besieged by alien hordes. Now only you remain. The aliens have the advantage of numbers, but you are on home territory. Your mission is to collect energy berries left on the tracks and complete all 12 levels. The game was probably never released independently, only as part of a collection that came with the Commodore 16. The gameboy version does not follow the original game where you have to shoot. In this version you have to collect points, but the graphics solutions are very similar.
Super Jacked Up Tomato Face Johnson is a fast paced twitch platformer made for the Game Boy Color. There's a new protein shake fresh on the shelves and Tomato Face Johnson needs to bulk up! It's on the pricey side of course, but luckily, it's on sale for a limited time...
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?
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.
"A horror fiction kinetic novel made especially for the Game Boy (and Super Game Boy)! Go through a linear, zero-choice visual novel made up of 4 short horror vignettes, each inspired by very personal fears and anxieties, and using real photos that [the dev] adapted for the Game Boy- many taken with [their] actual Game Boy Camera! Just a small series of nightmares, all over in about 15 minutes or so. [They] promise~"
A spooky, charming, homebrew adventure! In Life's Too Short GB, you take on the role of a celestial problem-solver as you're tasked with repairing a rift between two vampires who have dramatically fallen out and confined themselves to their respective coffins... You'll need to explore the mansion, meet various spooky characters and solve simple puzzles in order to put the mansion back together and mend the rift in the vampires' relationship!
Scorching Light is a horror-action-platformer game with puzzle elements. Any light enemy, item or liquid will kill the protagonist. The core mechanic of my game is that you can hide from the light enemies by blending into the environment.
You wake up at home with a splitting headache, only to discover that something isn’t quite right. A strange broadcast urges you to stay inside and avoid contact with the outside world. As tension builds, your surroundings begin to shift in unsettling ways, and your attempts to reach loved ones are met with unexpected obstacles.
One-Hit Wonder is a short visual novel written in Catalan language, the first of its kind. Our protagonist joins a young man called Ismael in his nocturnal journey through a cyberpunk Barcelona... and down memory lane.
Help Marzipan whip steaks back onto a horrifying skeletal bovine carcass in order to bring it back to life! But beware, -or should we say... beRARE- the steaks can also hurt you!
What Friends Are For is a puzzle platformer for the original Game Boy. It was developed in GB Studio for Game Boy Showdown 2023. Switch between friendly and unfriendly modes to use your enemies to solve puzzles and platforming challenges... or are they your friends? The game features 5 unique levels lovingly made in a week by Shin, with an awesome dynamic soundtrack from Beatscribe.
Self Simulated is a fast-paced precision platformer for the Game Boy Color. Play as a robotic version of yourself and navigate over 100 handcrafted levels filled with enemies, hazards, and glitch-filled dangers. Uncover your past and master tight, responsive controls designed for fast retries and fluid movement.
CUPID is a logic puzzle game made for the Game Boy Color. Something or someone has broken the Heart, a magical relic that stitches all things together. Without it, the universe will slowly unravel and everything will fall into darkness. Play as a cute little Cupid, tasked with mending the broken Heart. Do your best to spread love and happiness to all that you meet and prevent the darkness from taking hold!
A game about a robot tasked with burning trash. Made for the Yuri Game Jam 2025.
This is an unofficial action game starring RTA-chan from “RTA in Japan.”