What if a handheld game console had a crank?

what if anyone could make a game?

Meet the Playdate.

This is my wife and me talking about the Playdate - I didn’t just grab some random video off YouTube.

Season one games

Your new Playdate automatically downloads two games each week for twelve weeks - this is Season One and it’s included in the price of the Playdate. Will there be a Season Two? Panic says… we’ll see.

Click each screen below to get a review of each game! (Some are ready now — some are coming soon! Your cursor will change into a hand on the ones that are links.)

The two-a-week schedule lets you really dive into what each game can offer without overwhelming you. Game choice paralysis is real! You do have the option to skip the waiting and get them all right off the bat, but that’d be a mistake. I already had a hard enough time keeping up with all the games at this pace!

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Catalog and Itch.io games

  • The Fall of Elena Temple gif

    The Fall of Elena Temple

    Fall. Crank. Undo. And again, until you get it right.

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  • Icy Dungeon gif

    Icy Dungeon

    Welcome, welcome to… the (icy) dungeon!

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  • HANA title screen

    HANA: Spacetime Fantasy

    Take a little trip with me

    Read
  • Mars After Midnight screen

    Mars After Midnight

    Important, helpful work for aliens

    Read
  • Bloom gif

    Bloom

    Real-time SMS-based visual novel

    Read
  • Hidey Spot gif

    Hidey Spot

    Find your presents before your family wakes up

    Read
  • YGMTB gif

    You're Gonna Miss the Bus!

    Endless runner starring Henry

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  • Initial Daydream screenshot

    Initial Daydream

    Dragon Warrior 1-era, NES-style JRPG

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  • See the Sky screenshot

    See the Sky

    1-bit art Christmas story

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  • Digscovery gif

    Digscovery

    See what’s under the suface

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  • What the Crow?! screenshot

    What the Crow?!

    Be a bad baby

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