Popular games for platform Playdate

30.11.2022

Jewel Defender is an arcade action game. Fight robots from taking your jewels.

01.01.1970

✦ One enemy. One power-up. Unlimited

08.05.2024

A minigame collection. You are the new arrival in town and boy oh boy does CrabTopia need some help! Their seasonal festival is about to happen and they don't have the ingredients to cook for everyone.

05.06.2022

Build your army towards the ultimate goal of ruling the entire continent of Helios. Think of Risk but with a bit more complexity.

19.07.2024

A Spark in the Forest is an action game about the self-destructive way that we sometimes live our lives. When unsavory creatures have taken up residence in your forest, you need to locate some fire to fight them off.

02.03.2024

The Earth is on danger! Protect our planet from falling giant asteroids at all costs.

02.07.2024

Welcome to the circus. Exciting adventures await you with funny clowns. The clowns came up with a special juggling machine and called it Jugglenoid.

22.09.2023

How many Humans can you get to your mothership before getting shot down?

21.10.2023

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.

25.04.2025

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.

18.07.2023

Word game for Playdate with 400+ levels and unlockable items & achievements!

06.06.2022

Saturday Edition tells the story of John Kornfield, a security technician who made headlines in 1976 with his account of alien abduction, life on another world, and eventual return to earth. Ten years later, Kornfield once again finds himself the subject of public interest when a string of disappearances coincide with sightings of mysterious lights in the night sky.

08.04.2025

An endless rhythm game that uses the Playdate's crank. Watch out for four car types with distinct cue patterns, keep the beat while the tempo gets ever faster, and try to avoid a nasty collision.

14.12.2024

Launch rockets from catapults on Playdate!

26.08.2021

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.

01.01.1970

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.

15.08.2023

Dice classics for the Playdate handheld!

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17.02.2026

Help Chip and Chap protect the CPU from the Bad Bytes.

19.08.2025

Delivery platformer where you sometimes turn into a bird!?

09.04.2024

A highscore solitaire deckbuilder where you manage the spheres of influence for the world's divinities. Play and purchase cards to gather as much influence as possible within a limited number of turns.

03.10.2023

Everyone has a reason to come home early. Help this poor fool get out of prison! In this long-cherished interpretation of the classic, I let the ball wander through 60 hand-picked rooms.

19.08.2025

Journey into a world where the national sport is water fighting! Form a rag-tag team and enter the Super Splash League, the biggest tournament in town. Take turns in this low stakes tactics game, using cover, high-ground, different weapons, and various abilities to overcome the opposing team. Meanwhile, get to know your team, their troubles and worries, and as they strive to become the best team in the League! Will the team become league champions? or will they lose it all?

12.09.2022

Pulse is a stripped down action-puzzle game made exclusively for Playdate.

21.04.2023

A puzzle game recreation of Flow made for the playdate