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

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