What if a handheld game console had a crank?
what if anyone could make a game?
Meet the Playdate.
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!
Catalog and Itch.io games
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Crank Casino
Win money, make friends
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Date Nite
Make dinner for a girl you love
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The Game of the Goose
500-year-old, 8-player board game
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Reel-istic Fishing
A fishing game for a console with a crank, how novel!
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Super Conductor
Train go ‘round, train go fast
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Echo: The Oracle's Scroll
Combat-free, Playdate-exclusive Metroidvania
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Spilled Mushrooms
NOT a mushy game
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Pulpergeist
Spooky but not too scary detective adventure
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Under The Tree
20+ hours of Wizardry-inspired first-person dungeon crawling
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Hand of the Divine
Dense, rewarding solo card game
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STARHACK
A puzzle game for Neo
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Rendsword
Scrabble with swords
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Taxi Trouble
If you splat 'em, they won't learn nothin'
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Soliterra
Roguelike Solitaire-like
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Off-Planet Dreams
A riddle wrapped in an enigma
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Poker Poker Magic
Puyo Puyo for card tricksters
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RowBot Rally
See, it's like a rowBOAT but with a robot
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HEXA
HEXA-lent
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First in... Line?
Simon says CRANK
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Jolly Chimp Champ
Monkeyin' around
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The Keyper
What is he keyping?
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Garbage Scow Captain
The greeeeat space trashman~
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Personal SAM-Y
Robo-friend activate
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Metronome
Tick tock, Clarice
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Shift II
Take that, rewind it back
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Lillybug
It’s a bug-eat-bug world out there
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Four Corners
Simple name, frenetic puzzler
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Shift
Back… and to the left
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Generations
How’s it hangin’
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Post Hero
Playing the post
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Voidblazers
Blazin’ makes me feel good
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Escape the Arcade
Casual escape room comic game
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Top Binz! beta demo
Dump trash, score points
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The Heist of the Argonaut Limited
Solo TTRPG action
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Echoes of the Emergent
Horror visual novel!
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Direct Drive
1927 silent movie musical
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Angel Pop
POP goes the angel
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Summit
Playdate precision platforming
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oom
And everything is going to the beat
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Time From Earth
What’s out there?
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Life's 2 Short: Unhooked
Spooky scallywags
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Life's Too Short: A Christmas Spirit
See like how spirit is a ghost
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Life's Too Short
Be a helpful ghost
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ART&.. More
Art and community in 1-bit!
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Eyeland
Look around and find out
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Be Kind To Yourself
Combo-focused, score-chasing shmup!
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The Fall of Elena Temple
Fall. Crank. Undo. And again, until you get it right.
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Icy Dungeon
Welcome, welcome to… the (icy) dungeon!
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HANA: Spacetime Fantasy
Take a little trip with me
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Mars After Midnight
Important, helpful work for aliens
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Bloom
Real-time SMS-based visual novel
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Hidey Spot
Find your presents before your family wakes up
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You're Gonna Miss the Bus!
Endless runner starring Henry
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Initial Daydream
Dragon Warrior 1-era, NES-style JRPG
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See the Sky
1-bit art Christmas story
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Digscovery
See what’s under the suface
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What the Crow?!
Be a bad baby