Popular games for platform Playdate

Act fast and keep the balls up in the air!

An arcade game about garbage. Load the trash onto the truck and dispose / recycle accordingly. Keep angry neighbours, local wildlife and more off your back as you aim to impress your boss and chase the high score.

Meet Egg Meister — the scientifically accurate, delightfully quirky egg timer designed exclusively for your Playdate! Inspired by weekend breakfasts and the joy of perfectly boiled eggs. Or should we say: eggcelent! Egg Meister guides you through simple setup screens to ensure every egg is cooked just the way you like it. Need some entertainment while you wait? Pull the crank to launch a playful mini-game where you catch eggs in a sizzling pan, racking up points as the difficulty ramps up—without missing the countdown! Complete with custom chill-out sounds and retro-style graphics, Egg Meister blends utility, nostalgia, and fun into one charming package. And for the true eggsperts, you can fine-tune your eggperience by adjusting egg mass, temperature, and altitude settings.

Hop over gaps, flip between rooftops and launch yourself through an entire planet to become the fastest truck in the universe. Jump Truck is a 3D racing game about finding shortcuts and executing crazy aerials.

Loving Conversations in Shared Spaces

Are you a master of the drifting arts? If not...would you like to be? Trackminia is a precision-racer inspired by a legendary series of French games.

Real-time narrative city-building economic simulator

Guide the hacker duo Jun and Polly through the world of Fauna as they unravel hidden conspiracies and fight for what’s right. In the near future, LLM technology has advanced to the point where humans can use it to communicate with animals. Rival factions fight for control of this powerful technology, and animals—now that they have a voice—seek equal rights. This branching, choose-your-own-adventure comic takes about 15–20 minutes to complete. With dozens of unique story paths, each playthrough reveals new choices, secrets, and perspectives—inviting you to return again and again to experience the full world of Fauna.

1-bit Art Gallery for the Playdate console

A playdate game containing 8 retro based games playable in 3 game modes (port of my SDL2 version) The games can be played in 3 game modes: In Retro Carousel mode you will play all games for 2 minutes after each other. You can not die by losing lives. Points will be deducted from the score when dying. The aim is to get the highest score, accumulated over all the games. In Lives mode you play a single game and start with a fixed amount of lives. Dying will lose you one live. The game is over if the lives reaches 0. The aim of the game is to get the highest score possible without dying. In Time Attack mode you play a single game for 5 minutes. You can not die by losing lives. Points will be deducted from the score when dying. The aim is to get the highest score during these 5 minutes of playing. There are 8 retro based games implemented in this game Invaders is a game based on Space Invaders (Arcade). Rows of enemies are closing in you. You have to shoot them down before they reach your mining asteroids. Shooting down enemies gains points, shooting down all enemies gains extra points. You can move with dpad and shoot with (A). If enemies reach your mining asteroids you will lose a life. Avoid being shot or you will also lose a life. Brick Breaker is a game based on Breakout (Arcade). Rows of blocks have to be destroyed by touching them with the ball. You control the paddle at the bottom of the screen with the dpad. Keeping (A) pressed speeds up the paddle. You have to let the ball bounce of your paddle to send it back in the playfield. Destroying blocks gains points. Fail to bounce back the ball and you lose a life. Toady is a game based on Frogger (Arcade). You control the pet by the dpad and you have to keep moving up. Each time you move up to a place you had not reached yet, you will gain points. Avoid getting hit by traffic, don't fall into water, don't exceed the edges of the playfield or you will lose a life. Collect different fruit to gain extra score. Snakey is a game based on well snake (Nokia 3310). You control a snake's head (red block) by the dpad. The snake can move in four directions and wants food (green blocks). Each time you eat food the snake's body will grow. Eat food to gain points, the longer your snake is to more points you will gain. Touching the snake's body or going outside the playfield will lose you a life. Bubble Buster is a game based on Pang (Arcade). You control a player that needs to pop bubbles. You can control the player using the dpad and shoot at bubbles using (A) button. If you hit a bubble it will split up into smaller bubbles and you gain points. Get hit by a bubble and you will lose a life, making you temporary invincible but you can not shoot during this time. Clearing all bubbles gives you extra points. Block Stacker is a game of tetris. You control the blocks with the dpad. You need to stack them in such a manner that they form complete rows. Once this is done that row will be removed. Speed increases gradually and having no place at the top to place a block will lose you a life. You can rotate blocks using (A). Color Invasion is a game based on Ram-It (Atari 2600). You control the cannon with the dpad. You need to shoot the invading colored bars completely of the screen using (A). Points are awarded when the color bar is completely of the screen, the closer a bar had gotten to the cannon the more points you will gain. You also gain extra points for clearing all bars from the screen. When a colored bar reaches the cannon rail you will lose a life. Faster Dave is a game based on Fast Eddie (Atari 2600). You control Dave with the dpad. You need to avoid or jump over enemies with the (A) button while collecting the magic balls. When you collect 9 balls the end level key is reachable. You are safe on ladders. Points are received for collecting magic balls and getting the end level key. Collecting the 10th magic ball is not required. When you touch an enemy you will a lose life. Every 5 levels, level layout changes.

The roguelike deckbuilding word game.

Atlantic '41 is an upcoming World War 2 U-boat simulation for the Playdate console. Take command of a German submarine during the early years of the conflict and hunt convoys in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Make sure you know your boat inside and out, take good care of your crew, and try to survive the war as the Allies develop better weapons and detection systems against the U-boat peril.

The Overseer, a being who watches over the souls of the land. After gifting life to yet another lost spirit, it sets out into the world. What is his will? What does he wish to change in this land? What does this mean to the spirit and their kin? To humanity, these spirits are mere demons; monsters set on their destruction. Perhaps this is their will, but perhaps not. Venture forth into this dying world and decide for yourself. This is a story for you to witness and interpret.

Follow the rules, ship the shapes!

Uncrank'd Jam participation

A marble popper for the Playdate console

Angler is sick of living at the bottom of the sea and wants to see the world, all of it! Spin Angler up to build momentum and then launch straight into orbit, picking up a jetpack along the way.

Work your way up from making bottom shelf swill to high end whiskey!

A little high score game for the Playdate inspired by the 80s classic Jetpac.

Lost Your Marbles is a charming visual novel where the roll of a marble makes all the difference. Join PROTA in this branching-narrative adventure as she makes her way through Pomegranate Village on a quest to find her lost dog MINTY and make it to the annual Festi-Ball before day's end.

Geoguessing on an alien moon

Lemonade Stand for Playdate

A digital pet for the Play Date!

The ultra-fast vehicle you control, CRAZY SONIC, accelerates the more you crank. Your goal is to reach the finish line within the time limit by dodging obstacles that appear across highway lanes—using lane changes and speed control to your advantage.