Playdate: The Unofficial Website

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

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.

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!

Season Two

Season Two will have 12 more games released over the course of six weeks, is $39, and starts on May 29, 2025.

We’ll be doing our best to keep up with the release schedule, which will go through July 3, 2025! Click one of the games below to learn all about it (after it’s released, of course!).

Catalog and Itch.io games

Spirit Trail

Yo-kai Match

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Lolife

Open-world. Multi-path. Pulp.

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The Seven Bridges of Koenigsberg

Historical math problem, Pulp-style

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Goodnight Universe

We don’t need no stinkin’ backlight

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Daedalus Versus Minotaur

Trap your friends

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Resonant Tale

Oh, just the best 2D Zelda-like ever, nbd

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Jump the Crank

The name says it all

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Little House

Spooky, dreamlike Pulp adventure

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Overseer

Metroid mean, Metroid good.

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Super Beta Tester

Guide a little guy!

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Ribbit Rogue

Frogue.

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Teddison Inc

Wait for it… big number!

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Escape the Boardgame

Puzzly comic book adventure time

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CODA

Spooky crunchy Pulp-made sci-fi

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Wirewalk

The Legend of Zelda: Battle Network

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Bona Fido

Dog-io Bros.

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Trackminia

See it’s like Trackmania but small

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Carte Blanche

Learn card games from a bird

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XTRIS

X marks the spot

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Pup Cup

Dogs like whipped cream but not too much, okay?!

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RowBot Rally

Crank to row, make boat go

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Terratopia: March of the Demon King

Like if Outer Wilds was on Playdate

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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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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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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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Shift II

Take that, rewind it back

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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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The Heist of the Argonaut Limited

Solo TTRPG action

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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 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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