Popular games for platform Playdate
How many Humans can you get to your mothership before getting shot down?
A whimsical word game! Writers are lost for words and need your help spelling new ones. The chef needs spicy words for his cook book. The artist needs colorful language and the naturalist needs wild animal words. Use your grabber contraption to nab bwirds out of the sky to form words and reap the rewards as long as you keep your writers happy.
A virtual pet game for the Playdate
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.
Defend Earth from an onslaught of alien invaders! Use the crank to shoot down incoming saucers, collect power-ups, and destroy power-downs! If you let all six cities fall, then it's game over for Earth...
Real-time narrative city-building economic simulator
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?
A turn-based, claustrophobic nightmare and each action feeds the terror hunting you.
A sokoban style game in which you have to push blocks in order to press switches, with the twist that the blocks stick to you and each other.
Jonathan is a mouse forced to murder in the name of science. He must dodge and blast his way out of the maze. Gather cheese, collect gun upgrades, and uncover the truth about his family and the lab he’s trapped in.
In Funny Racer, you can groove to simple controls that anyone can master, but perfecting your lines is a never-ending pursuit. As well, challenge your ghost on a retro-inspired track, and strive to unlock all 8 cars in your new Playdate obsession!
You're the last stand against a hoard of asteroids headed straight towards the moon! Ram your specially-designed ship into them before they make contact with Luna and survive the onslaught as long as you can. This deluxe edition builds upon the original with a variety of features- rebalanced difficulty, combos, and a whole new ship with a unique playstyle.
Word game for Playdate with 400+ levels and unlockable items & achievements!
Crank it till you make it!
The classic game of video ping-pong now on Playdate!
A 2 player pass-n-play deduction game for the Playdate
Relive the golden days of the 1990s virtual pet game craze with Mini Monsters. Built to mimic the games of old, you will have to take care of your pet through out the day as it continues to play in real time, even when you're not.
Fortress is an exploration game with different enemy and weapon types, puzzles, secrets, unique dialogue, and more. There are 57 different rooms in the game for you to explore. Your character starts with no weapons or items and you progress through the game by finding items, solving puzzles, and interacting with NPCs. The game uses the D-pad the vast majority of the time as you navigate a large fortress filled with monsters, people, stories, and traps. The game utilizes the crank for one of the puzzles. You receive scores at the end of the game based on how many treasures you collect, how many gems you find, and how many times you die in the game. The main objective of the game is to escape the fortress! There is no save functionality, but you can lock your Playdate and start where you left off later on. An average playthrough takes about 30 minutes. It takes most players more than one playthrough to achieve the top rank in each category.
Skateboarding tricks on the moon.
An action-adventure game for the Playdate handheld console in the vein of classic The Legend of Zelda games combined with modern ideas found in e.g. Dark Souls and Hollow Knight. Solar Descent features real-time combat, two attack buttons, on the fly switching of abilities, clever combat integration of the crank, elaborate menus and map systems.
It's similar to Wordle, but with only vowels. Choose to find words having between five and ten letters. Based on the french TV game "Motus".
Bona Fido is a fast-paced, single-screen platformer, inspired by classic arcade games but with a spooOOooky twist. Turns out the afterlife's not as bad as they say! Well, except for all the terrifying monsters, at least.
Under the Castle is a classic rogue game where you'll explore infinite dungeons vanquishing enemies, gathering Orbs of Light and rescuing enslaved villagers. Use your weapons, potions, magic scrolls and even you own hat to navigate the treacherous depths and find your way to the Evil Lord!
Join the ducks on their cute journey for world domination.